From the beginning…

I’ve been working on the film Silent Music since Melissa first contacted me  about it in early 2005.  At the time, I would never have guessed that this endeavor would consume over 5 years of my life, basically spanning my entire professional editing career.

Melissa first contacted me to do a re-edit of a documentary short she had made about her parents, but this quickly ballooned into a much larger project that involved an entire re-conceptualization of the film, hours of newly shot footage, and the insertion of Melissa into the film as the main character.  Most people in my life who knew about the project would react in shock and surprise when they heard I was still working on it.  ”You’re still working on that deaf movie?” they’d ask with a scrunched up nose, and so I’d usually avoid talking about it.  But the film was a continual source of learning and growth for me, not only in my professional field, but in my personal life as well.  It informed how I view the importance of honesty and openness in long-term relationships, as well as how to make peace with the things in your life that you don’t like but are unable to control.

As the end of the film is finally in sight, with completion just a couple months away, I can’t wait for this project to be finally out of my hands and given to the world.  And I just hope it will have the same impact on other people’s lives that it has had on my own. - Jay Prychidny, Producer/Writer/Editor