THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS (LA VOZ DE LOS SILENCIADOS)

Film Info
Director:Maximón Monihan
Running Time:80
Country:USA
Year of Release:2014
Premiere:US Premiere

Description

Charlie Chaplin meets Eraserhead in this magical realist, modern-day silent film that takes us inside the mind and heartbreak of Olga, a deaf teenager brought from Central America to New York City under the false promise of attending a Christian sign language school. Upon arrival, Olga enters a world of immigrant trafficking, and her life is turned upside-down as she becomes enslaved by an international criminal ring. Forced to beg on the subway, Olga uses courage, cunning, and even humor, to face an unimaginable, looping nightmare. The Voice of the Voiceless tells the story of modern-day slavery using non-actors, Brechtian edits, a brutal subway landscape, and the isolation of deafness. Based on the true story of a crime ring that was discovered by New York police in 1997, the film shatters our ideas of storytelling and sound. - Jeff M. Giordano