Director and editor JACOB GENTRY goes in-depth in this exclusive interview talking about the riveting, edge-of-your-seat thriller, BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION starring Harry Shum Jr.
Inspired by actual television interruptions that occurred in Chicago in the late 1980s, BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION is a captivating and terror-filled journey of one man as the lines between fantasy and reality blur with obsession as burgeoning technology of the day may hold the key to a traumatic event in his past. Harry Shum Jr stars as video archivist and editor James working on an archival project logging decades-old TV broadcasts (long before the days of digital archive preservation). During this process, James discovers a surreal and very disturbing broadcast interruption which he believes to be the product of a signal hack. Curious, James starts to track down other similar broadcast signal intrusions. Now obsessed, James lets his mind wander and wonder, assembling clues that make him believe that these interruptions are not only clues to a horrific crime but that whoever is behind them knows that James is close to uncovering the truth,
Directed by Jacob Gentry and written by Phil Drinkwater and Tim Woodall, BROADCAST SIGNAL INTERRUPTION stars Harry Shum Jr, Kelley Mack, Chris Sullivan, Jennifer Jelsema, Arif Yampolsky, Justin Welborn, Michael B. Woods, and Steve Pringle.
You can hear not only the excitement and passion in JACOB GENTRY’s voice as he talks about BROADCAST SIGNAL INTERRUPTION but his own obsession with crafting the film and wanting to achieve an authentic analog immersion as he takes us down the rabbit hole of Shum’s character, James. Covering everything from research into broadcast signals to the “Max Headroom” incident of the 80s, soundscape and analog texture, Scott Thiele’s cinematography and creating a visual tonal bandwidth, Dan Martin’s chilling cinema fantastique intrusion videos, editing, the dance between reality and fantasy, working with Shum on the emotionally spiraling tightrope of James, “the trunk”, and more.
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by debbie elias, exclusive interview 10/19/2021
