The Story

An eleven-year-old boy named T.B. has been stricken with silence following the death of his father. His mother, now at wits end and remarried gets him a ventriloquist dummy on the advice of a therapist. The hope is it will help young T.B. work out his problems and begin to talk. To add insult to injury, T.B. is being bullied at school, there's a girl he likes he can't talk to and his stepfather is not particularly enamored with the boy.

While T.B.'s being bullied one day, the janitor of the school steps in and chases off the attackers. It turns out the janitor is Arty Sullivan, a famous ventriloquist from back in the day – his life now a miserable mess consumed with alcohol and loneliness. Seeing some of himself in the boy, he takes him under his wings. He teaches him a few tricks, but warns him not to become a drive-by ventriloquist: not to go around putting words in other people's mouths – something that ruined Arty's own career.

But being eleven, with nothing to lose – can T.B. resist?

Director's Notes

Coming Soon


Technical Notes

LANGUAGE: English
FORMAT: 24p Digital
ASPECT RATIO: 16X9
RUN TIME: 39 m
SOUND: Dolby Digital Stereo


Festival Schedule

October 13-31, 2006
Macabro Festival
Mexico City, Mexico
http://www.macabro.com.mx/

October 4-8, 2006
South Asian International Film Festival
New York City, NY
http://www.saiff.org/

August 13, 2006
FILMI International Festival
Toronto, Canada
http://www.filmi.org

August 5, 2006
Dallas South Asian Film Festival
Dallas, TX
http://www.nrifilms.com/dsaff/main.html

July 29, 2006
Regeant Park Film Festival
Toronto, ON

April 19-23, 2006
Reel World Film Festival
Toronto, ON
http://www.reelworld.ca

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