“Make the Voices Stop!”

Interview by Doug Holder

Recently, a student in my Boston Literature and Film Class at Endicott College told me he is going to have a short documentary that he produced screened as part of the Boston Student International Film Festival Showcase. The film, along with many others can be viewed at the old and storied vaudevillian Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts at 1:00 p.m. on April 29. According to the budding filmmaker, undergraduate Foster White:

The film is named, Make the Voices Stop! and the logline is – Identical twins Alex and Aaron have grappled with addiction together for years. However, a distance starts to form between them as Alex gets sober and Aaron’s mental health begins to decline. This is my first ever documentary film and I am incredibly proud of it. It follows my twin cousins Alex and Aaron who are both addicted to opioids. I would go to their separate houses a few times a month to get new footage and just check in with the two of them. I got a lot of warning about working on such a big project with my family and especially because it’s such an important topic. But I think we were able to make it out okay. I will say that I wish I took those warnings a little more seriously, but in the end it turned out to be fine and I got a lot closer with both of them.”

Foster White

For more info go to  https://iffboston.org/series/the-festival/screening/shorts/the-student-showcase/