Filmmaker Statement

Based on an original poem, The Quiet Loud is a glimpse from a child’s perspective into the bittersweet journey from childhood to adulthood, and the loss of innocence that accompanies it. The film is a mix of narrative/experimental techniques, set to spoken poetry. The film uses a metaphor of “giants” that live in, and eventually intrude on this insulated, wonderful world, The Quiet Loud. The world is temporary, and no child can stay forever, but the giants decide when a child will leave the Quiet Loud. Whether it's physical or emotional, the giants create the events that drive you out. The giants are adults/adult-world issues they create; abuse, divorce, bullying, child abduction etc. The event that shatters the main character’s world leaves her to process and attempt to heal, as she balances the universal struggles of adolescence with the personal struggles from a significant trauma. Suddenly she’s teetering, driven to the edge of the unknown realizing the only way to move is forward.