Soundbite

"Loads going for it." Henry Adeane, former NPA exec "Cool all the way." Cynosure Screenplay Competition "A real must-read script." Kevin Smith, scriptshop OFFICIAL SELECTION (BEST UNPRODUCED SCRIPT) Berlin International Art Film Festival Cannes International Cinema Festival LA Independent Film Channel Festival New York Independent Cinema Awards Miami Indie Film Awards Toronto Film and Script Awards WINNER (BEST CONCEPT) Paperscreenplay Contest 16-year-old JASON EDGE is at loggerheads with his soon-to-be-divorced mother MILANI. His teenagedom's love of the feral and nocturnal wards off the moribund adulthood that looms forebodingly for him. Not realising the book's subsequent significance, he causes laughter as set text Dracula is introduced in class. He creates new life for himself in his attic 'lair', fusing recordings of local sounds into brilliant mashup compositions. But shrugged-off signs of illness turn out to be rare inoperable cancer, leaving him only months to live. The estranged father returns home and Jason undergoes remedial treatment. But these prove to be a subterfuge merely to make him feel better. Sussing Dracula as the epitome of a living death ad infinitum, he dresses in black, shaves off what hair's left after chemo, wears shades and sucks on self-inflicted fissures. Milani's wane and wasted look has her seen as his kindred spirit. As a placebo prolonging of her son's life a bit longer, she lets him revive from slits in her own flesh. Their re-found interdependence gives them reinvigorated lives. But she insists his transfiguration shows that vampires are as reliant as everyone else on others to sustain themselves. It imbues a new sense of social responsibility in Jason. He finds the strength to use his sound-engineering skills in a hoax to bring together two warring neighbours (soundbites of whom he'd previously used). It backfires but brings the policeman on Jason's case earlier calling on Milani. Pleased to see new-found accord in these two, Jason expires - in sunlight. With these events causing the father to repair his relationship with his young sibling, the formerly detached Milani gets the two neighbours in question joining her in scattering the ashes. Jason will indeed live on; through the new affiliations he has forged.