All Static & Noise 杂音和噪音

片名（Title）：All Static & Noise 杂音和噪音

片长（Running Time）：103 min

创作年份（Year of Production)）：2023

导演（Director）：David Novack

摄影（Cinematography）：Kaya Dillon

剪辑（Editing）：Nancy Novack, ACE

录音（Sound）：Tarun Madupu

制片人（Producer）：Janice Englehart, David Novack

制作机构（Production Company）：Old Log New Leaf, LLC

Synopsis

Jewher, a Uyghur teen from China with no English, lands in the US after she is violently separated from her father at the Beijing airport as he is detained. Abduweli, a linguist and poet imprisoned and tortured for teaching Uyghur language to 6-year-olds, makes his way to Istanbul upon his release. Testimony and action from survivors of China’s network of “re-education camps" and their families, in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Europe and the United States, infuse All Static & Noise with an urgency that exposes the mass brutality of state-sponsored oppression in Western China. Together these voices highlight the moral dilemma between risking the safety of families back home by speaking out and the necessity of exposing atrocities in the hope that global awareness will bring change.

Director David Novack’s Statement

All Static & Noise is rooted in testimony, in the voices of Uyghurs and Kazakhs, those affected by the ongoing atrocities occurring in the Uyghur region of China. The loss of my own Jewish family in Europe 80 years ago compels me to give voice to these embattled sisters and brothers through real, brave people and their personal experiences, for how can we turn our backs on those who suffer what our forebears have. I cannot divorce this humanitarian crisis from my family’s history – first stripped of freedoms with endless terror, then ultimately subjected to forced labor and lost in concentration camps and road-side ditches, and all while the world appeased until it was too late for so many. The parallels strike me to my core. The strongest tool at my disposal to take a stand against human rights atrocity is filmmaking, and so I embarked on a journey that I will never forget, and never regret. 

We invite the world to stand up to rights abuses everywhere, abroad and at home, and to recognize where our own nations may be complicit and where we have power to demand a better world.

Director’s Biography

David Novack of Odessa Films is the director, co-producer, and co-writer of All Static & Noise (Best in Category, DocEdge Documentary Film Festival and Best Feature, Australian Muslim International Film Festival) about ongoing atrocities in the Uyghur Region of China.  He directed, wrote, and produced Finding Babel (Special Jury Prize, Moscow Jewish Film Festival), about executed Soviet writer Isaac Babel, and Burning the Future: Coal in America, (IDA Pare Lorentz Award, Best In-Depth Television Reporting on the Environment from the Society of Environmental Journalists) about rights activists in West Virginia. David also produced Kimjongilia (Sundance, Best Human Rights Documentary Award/One World Brussels Film Fest) about North Korean labor camps. He teaches film, formerly at Univ. of Pennsylvania and presently at Univ. Lusófona in Lisbon.

Film Festivals and Awards

World Premiere - Doc Edge International Documentary Film Festival, New Zealand (June 2023) Winner Best in Category *

Jaña Cekara, Kazakhstan (September 2023)

European Premiere - Bergen International Film Festival (Oct 2023) 

Muslim International Film Festival, Australia (Oct 2023) Winner Best Feature*

Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival, Washington, DC (Nov 2023) 

Human International Film Festival, Oslo (March 2024) 

FIFDH, Geneva (March 2024) 

Berkshire International Film Festival, USA (May 2024)

Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Australia (July 2024) 

Wilwaukee Muslim Film Festival, USA (Oct 2024) 

Festival des Libertés, Brussels (Oct 2024)