This short will be entered into several major short film festivals. Role is unpaid but travel expenses will be paid upon receipt of bus/train/tram tickets as proof of purchase. Auditions will take place in central Manchester on Sunday, 1st July 2012. If we think you may be suitable for a part, we will contact you to invite you to an audition. But one day, after months of silence, there is a voice on the other end of the radio… could this be her salvation? Her mental and physical health wane, she becomes the skeleton of the person she once was. Carmen Aristegui, incorruptible journalist, has been fired from the radio station where she has worked for years. Months fall off the calendar and coping with her isolation and the loss of her family steadily takes its toll. Her days are rigorously structured to maintain some semblance of normalcy – wake up at 5am, exercise, clean, eat, monitor the radio, sleep, repeat… She broadcasts for one hour per day and listens for five, all in the hope of contacting someone… anyone. Months after this cataclysmic event changed the world forever, she struggles to find a voice in the silence using an old CB radio. She has barricaded herself in her family home, where she once lived with a husband and daughter. Are there any survivors? We only know of one – Elaine.
RADIO SILENCE FILM TORRENT
An endless torrent of cannibalistic corpses now roam the streets in search of living flesh. In a not-too-distant future, the world has fallen apart. She longs for survival, to hear contact from the outside world. A mother who has recently witnessed the passing of both her husband and six year old daughter. Malnourished, Hungry, Lonely, Survivor, Optimistic. Mat’s latest film ‘Kiss’ is currently on the festival circuit and was recently selected for the prestigious London Short Film Festival.ĮLAINE: Caucasian, Female, 30 – 40, with a notably thin build. A talk-show host steps out deep when he starts to. The film borrows to some extent from Clint Eastwoods directorial debut Play Misty for Me at least when it comes to the setting. But then again, On Air aka Radio Silence (which are two different terms, come to think of it) is equal part thriller as it is horror. Dean and Ray have had work screened at two of the UK’s leading short film events, namely The Portobello Film Festival and Brief Encounters International Short Film Festival in Bristol, and in 2009 were finalists in the Virgin Media Shorts competition with their film, ‘Three Little Words’. German horror films are not as common as their French or Spanish counterparts.
The screenplay is written by Dean Lines and Ray Bogdanovich. It is a sad profile of what an isolated person might go through at the end of the world. This powerful portrait of an uncommonly courageous and tenacious woman makes it very clear what you get when the freedom of the press is crushed: no rule of law and a crumbling democracy.Chris Lane Productions and Zero Facility Films require a female lead to play the role of a widowed mother in a short drama.ĭirected by Mat Johns and produced by Chris Lane, ‘Radio Silence’ is a zombie film with barely any zombies in it. “No one should die because of his job” answers one of Carmen’s colleagues.Ĭould it be that social media is Aristegui’s best protection? She’s so popular that eradicating her would start an uprising. “Would you be prepared to die for this job?” asks director Juliana Fanjul. Meanwhile, the terrifying and brutal reality of politics in Mexico becomes palpable when there’s a violent break-in at her office and another defiant radio journalist is murdered. The direct cinema scenes alternate with conversations with Carmen and her colleagues.
The camera follows the engaging and cheerful journalist as she goes about her work. When her radio station fired her in 2015, she started her own channel and continued broadcasting online, where she now has around 18 million listeners. The well-known Mexican radio host and journalist Carmen Aristegui is fighting against fake news, government corruption and the related drugs trade.