The Sound of Silent Film Festival takes place each year in Chicago's historic Davis Theater. We screen each film in silence with original music by our composer members performed live.
The deadline for submission for the 2021 festival is December 1.
The films we screen are either actual modern silent films with no sound whatsoever or films without dialogue with sound effects that can easily be recreated acoustically in the musical score.
We will consider films too that have an existing musical score if we can perform it with the film for the instruments we have available.
In addition to films by up and comers we have also programmed and performed live music to well-known filmmakers such as Guy Maddin, Martin Scorsese, Alexander Payne, the Brothers Quay and others.
We're interested in short films, between 2 and 20 minutes long, in all styles and genres.
The event is well known in Chicago after so many years and routinely gets a lot of press and attracts younger audiences between 18 and 40. This will be our fifteenth year which is a great milestone. The festival takes place on March 27, 2021.