The Sundance Film Festival has awarded a Short Film Special Jury Prize to TFT acting alumnus Kahlil Joseph MFA ’06. Joseph’s film “Until the Quiet Comes,” based upon and featuring music from the electronica album of the same name by Flying Lotus, “deals with themes of violence, camaraderie and spirituality through the lens of magical realism,” according to the Sundance catalog description.

“Until the Quiet Comes” received a rave review last year on the IndieWIRE blog “Shadow and Act.”

What came through the screen into my room was FREEDOM. Freedom brought on by movement, innocence, the transient power of water, the freedom that death provides, the freedom that childhood whispers in our ears and adulthood relegates to our subconscious. Another thing came through: a document of how we as a people, and especially our children, have been interacting with each other for the last few generations. How we talk with guns and enigmatic stares. How we find validation, strength, swag, and sensuality in blood letting. And, of course, how intense and embedded all of that is.

Short film award recipients will be honored at the Festival’s feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, on Saturday, January 26 at 7:00 p.m. M.T. The ceremony will be live-streamed at www.sundance.org/festival.

Joseph, a former Visiting Assistant Professor at TFT, has been a working actor in Hollywood for several years. He appeared on the long-running soap “Days of Ours Lives” and guest starred on several popular series. He recently traveled for ten months with the national touring company of the hit Broadway musical “Legally Blonde,” a gig that took him to almost every state in the U.S. and several cities in Canada.

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