NOISE gets into Sundance!
December 01 2006
The Australian feature film NOISE will have it World Premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
NOISE will screen in the World Cinema Competition: Dramatic, a competitive section of the festival focused on exceptional independent filmmaking from around the globe. Previous Australian films screened in this section include Wolf Creek and Chopper. NOISE is written and directed by Matthew Saville and produced by Trevor Blainey, with Brendan Cowell (Love My Way) in the lead role of Graham McGahan.
With the competitive line-up announced in the US yesterday ? and by the AFC in Sydney today ? Sundance festival director Geoffrey Gilmore says of Saville, "That's a director that you're going to hear about in the future.?
NOISE tells the story of a young cop, Graham McGahan, who suffers chronic, idiopathic tinnitus. After a mass murder on a suburban train, McGahan is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the screaming in his head while the community around him deals with the crime and its aftermath.
Madman Cinema will release NOISE in theatres nationally in 2007.