Radio Silence

2012, 20 minutes

A short film set in an undead world where an isolated woman tries to find a voice in the silence.

In a not-too-distant future, the world has fallen apart. An endless torrent of cannibalistic corpses now roam the streets in search of living flesh. Are there any survivors? We only know of one – Elaine. She has barricaded herself in her family home, where she once lived with a husband and daughter. Months after this cataclysmic event changed the world forever, she struggles to find a voice in the silence using an old CB radio. She broadcasts for one hour per day and listens for five, all in the hope of contacting someone… anyone. Her days are rigorously structured to maintain some semblance of normalcy – wake up at 5am, exercise, clean, eat, monitor the radio, sleep, repeat… Months fall off the calendar and coping with her isolation and the loss of her family steadily takes its toll. Her mental and physical health wane, she becomes the skeleton of the person she once was. But one day, after months of silence, there is a voice on the other end of the radio… could this be her salvation?

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