Expression of Illness
Join us in Missouri!
We’re screening at the True/False Film Festival on Thursday Feb 27 at 4:45pm at the Big Ragtag and Sat March 1 at 9:30am at the Globe as part of the Spring: Shorts program.
Short Synopsis
After a routine follow up appointment, documentary filmmaker and thyroid cancer survivor, Bryn Silverman learns her treatment isn’t over. What begins as a solo investigation into the thoroughness of her healthcare, evolves into a larger re-imagining of the metrics we use to measure our well-being and the importance of community in healing.
Meet the Crew
Bryn Silverman |
Director
Bryn was a story producer on Amend: The Fight for America, a six part Netflix documentary series about the impact of the 14th Amendment. Recently she was a field producer on Paula Eiselt’s Under G-d (Sundance, 2023) and an additional editor on This World is Not My Own (SXSW, 2023.) She post-produced and edited a DACA PSA “Are you afraid of Monsters?,” which was honored at the 2018 Webby’s in the category “best film - public service & activism.” She was also an additional editor on the acclaimed feature documentary Roll Red Roll. She is a Southern Producers’ Lab Fellow with the New Orleans Film Society and one of four selected to participate in the Oxford Film Festival Female Filmmaker Retreat. She graduated from the production track at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and is an Associate Programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival.
Naveen Chaubal |
Producer
Naveen has worked for AJ+, Vice News, and produced music videos for James Blake and Frank Ocean. He’s a fellow of Film Independent's Project: Involve and Fast Track programs. His short film “Pinball” screened at the DGA and the Speed Art Museum and premiered online on NoBudge.com and won Audience Choice. He co-shot and co-produced Tomorrow We Disappear, a feature documentary that chronicles the last days of the Kathputli colony. A community hidden in the alleyways of New Delhi full of magicians, acrobats and puppeteers approaches their looming eviction to make way for a modern skyscraper. The film premiered at Tribeca and screened at Hot Docs and CPH:DOX, and Salem Film Fest.
Christine Turner | Consulting Producer
Christine Turner is an Oscar nominated filmmaker whose work has been called “Exquisitely tender” and “Thoughtful and enlightening” by The Washington Post. Her most recent film “The Barber of Little Rock” is nominated in the 2024 Oscars. Recently, her short film Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was featured as a New York Times Op-Doc.
Previously, Christine directed the critically acclaimed documentary Homegoings, about a renowned funeral director in Harlem. Now streaming on the Criterion Channel, the film premiered at Documentary Fortnight at MoMA and aired nationally on the PBS series POV in 2013. In addition, Christine’s fiction shorts have screened at festivals widely including Sundance and Tribeca. Her film Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day, a production of Firelight Films in association with MTV Documentary Films, will be released in the fall of 2021.
Matthew Robert Cooper | Composer
Matthew Robert Cooper (aka Eluvium) is a composer from the Pacific Northwest known for his fusion of cinematic, ambient, classical, experimental, and electronic composition. His music has been featured in films, television, and shorts including work for HBO, Showtime, Universal, Apple TV+ and Sundance award winning films.
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