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SENSATION

Thriller - Development 2024

The lives of a deaf boy and a violent gangster become intertwined when the boy witnesses a gangland massacre.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama, Female director
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Writer(s)
- Richard BEATTIE
- Producer(s)
- Alison REID (Free Spirit Films)
- Synopsis
- Sensation is driven by the unlikely friendship between a deaf boy and a violent gangster. Blue Ritchie is almost killed in a brutal gangland hit and the only witness, young Owen Black disappears without telling a soul. Blue comes to pry the secret of that night from Owen, but when he does, Owen, his mother Tasha and Blue become targets of the killers. The story is told form the point of view of Owen. We hear the world as he does - through the filter of his newly-activated cochlear implant and we're forced to question everything we hear. Just like Owen.