Euphonia makes its premiere at SXSW
Directed by Danny Madden, Euphonia follows a bored, K-Mart employed high school boy, Will (Will Madden) who for some reason or another hates every minute of his white, suburban existence. The film, which was well done, is a must watch for any sound recordist or designer and that’s why we’re so interested in it here at S&P.
As the minutes pass closer to the all conclusive fade to black, Will’s days of hanging out with his friend (Bejnamin Papac) and trading notes with a female classmate (Maria Decotis) become bleak. So he turns to what any teenage boy does to fill his loneliness-porn (kidding, but just a suggestion, Will). Nope, he actually buys a sound recording device, a Zoom H2, to be exact and starts to capture the audio world around him. Now consumed with his newly found obsession it eventually becomes so intense it slips him into a world of discontent.
Shot outside Atlanta, Georgia with a near zero dollar budget, Danny Madden, created a plot through sound imagery that’s engrained with inventiveness and passion. Though Will is center stage, the real characters are the sounds that begin to take over his life. Besides directing and writing the project, Madden also cut the film and looked to Steve Bissinger for additional sound re-recording and theory. We were able to sit down with the two storytellers to see what it was like creating a character we could only hear.
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Directed by Ric Roman Waugh, Snitch focuses on John Matthews (Dwayne Johnson), an owner of a construction company whose 18-year-old-son, Jason, is framed for dealing drugs by another kid who is trying to save his own skin. John, now devastated that his son will receive the mandatory minimum 10-year sentence in federal prison, looks for answers and is willing to do anything to reduce Jason’s sentence – including going undercover himself.As the story unfolds, U.S Attorney Joanne Keeghan (Susan Sarandon) works out a deal with John to cut down jail time if he produces evidence against someone else in the drug trade. As John infiltrates a violent gang led by Malik (Michael Kenneth Williams), he unexpectedly exposes a major player in the Mexican cartel (Benjamin Bratt) turning the already dangerous venture into something deadly, putting himself and his family at risk.
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