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Title: The Sound of Fear
Runtime: 8 min
Country: USA
Director: Colin Campbell
Placement: Honorable Mention
Competition: June, 2017
Synopsis: A young Deaf woman, IVY, inadvertently witnesses a group of meth addicts kill a sheriff in a remote resort town. On the run, Ivy races through the empty streets looking for help. She finds a vacationing family and tries to get them to call the police, but they can’t understand her. The addicts burst in and kill the mom and dad. Ivy and the thirteen year-old daughter, Molly, flee.
Ivy and Molly struggle to communicate, and to stay one step ahead of the killers who are relentlessly hunting them down. At certain, key moments, the film takes us into Ivy’s world, stripping away the sounds, and plunging the audience into a terrifying silence. Ivy can’t hear them coming for her, but she’s resourceful and smart. She has to learn to use sounds against the killers, if she wants to keep Molly and herself alive.
