Speaking in Silence
Zoe Tweedy
Synopsis
SPEAKING IN SILENCE gently explores the experience of Selective Mutism from within. Selective Mutism is an anxiety disorder, through which the sufferer is unable to speak in many social settings. Extending far beyond shyness, the silence becomes an insurmountable wall to the outside world. A wall built on fear.
Told from the filmmaker’s perspective the documentary forms a time traveling poem-come-warning of the challenge to agency faced in the condition. The story is addressed to Saarah, a young Londoner struggling with the shifting challenges of mutism as she moves into adolescence. A fellow voiceless soul that the filmmaker encountered just in time.
Details
- Year
- 2021
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running Time
- 14 min 5 secs
- Format
- Digital
- Director
- Zoe Tweedy
- Producer
- Brian Henry Martin
- Executive Producer
- Lisa Marie Russo
- Editor
- Mike McKnight
- Screenwriter
- Zoe Tweedy
- Director of Photography
- Zoe Tweedy, Monika Jastrzebska
- Music
- Score Draw Music
- Principal Cast
- Zoe Tweedy, Saarah Bedekar
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 14th April 2021
