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 ABOUT SILENT ANNA:
Silent Anna began with a location. Director Max Sokoloff spent two mornings photographing Fort Point, a historic fort nestled underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Seeing the potential of the location, those photos became the template for a script he developed with playwright Isaiah Dufort over the next six months. The film was originally projected for a running time of 30 minutes.
Principal shooting began at end of May 2008. The five-day shoot involved a combination of professional volunteers, mentors, students and parents who worked under trying circumstances to create the very best footage possible.
When this footage was assembled, the film took on a life of its own. It became clear that the material had larger potential and that the themes of the film needed to be explored. Those revisions pointed to a feature length film.
The film is now in post-production and the producers are in the process of raising money for the final stages of editing, sound, music, dubbing, and pick-ups. It is hoped the production will be able to enter the festival circuit at the beginning of 2011.
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 THE STORY:
At the end of the Indian wars, the western coast is quiet. In a fort at the edge of the Pacfic Ocean, a frustrated group of misfits are left behind while troops move north on training missions. The soldiers fight boredom with chores and mindless cruelty. James, a new recruit, finds himself ostricized and isolated.
One day a woman, half-drowned, washes ashore outside the fort. The soldiers bring her inside where she revives. She refuses to speak and gives no indication about her identity or her past. Distrusting the other soldiers, the captain chooses James to be her guard.
James must grapple with his growing feelings for this mysterious woman and the resentment of the other soldiers. Meanwhile, the woman, haunted by memories of abuse and violence, begins to come back to life while fending off the attention of the soldiers.
Silent Anna gives us a fresh portrait of the west unlike those in genre westerns, a sixteen-year-old director has created a visually stunning, haunting love story in the tradition of the finest and most moving American folk tales.
With this film, a sixteen-year-old director has created a visually stunning, haunting love story that explores the West through new eyes.
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