Actor/Director David Bianchi, star of the HBO show “Westworld,” releases a powerful spoken word film with “Screams” – which details the struggle of immigrant and migrant children under the Trump Administration, separated from their parents and housed in detention centers.
As with Bianchi’s previous spoken word film, “You Can’t Hear Me,” the verse is dynamic, the prose pointed and purposeful, and the delivery important and relevant. The opening, which features Bianchi detailing some of his own fears from his childhood, spoken softly, remark of what it’s like to be a child, to be afraid, but to know you have the support of loving parents who will walk you through these trying times.
The spoken word sweeps along, rising in intensity as it remarks on the struggles of migrant children, separated from their parents, who do not have anyone to help them through a time that is more trying and even more terrifying. “Screams” is about those voices, those screams lost in the night, of children set up for lifelong post traumatic stress due to situations they’ve been forced into beyond their control. Bianchi instills the emotion of these souls with his passioned delivery, something he has both talent and drive for.
The film, only 2 mins and 35 seconds in length ends with its only bit of text, reading: “Over 2,400 children under the age of 12 have have been forcibly taken from their parents by the Trump Administration. Including ‘tender age’ detainees under the age of five.”
Said Bianchi, the project’s Writer, Director, Editor, Producer, and Performer: “As a poet, actor and a filmmaker I always have a platform. I was so hurt by the news I had to write… and “Screams” is what came out. Crimes against children are inexcusable, which is why both sides of the aisle were outraged. I wrote this piece to help make the pain relatable to all audiences, not just Latinos.
“As Latinos we understand the struggle, but most Americans tap out after the day’s news cycle (as so many Latinos). So this story, I hope makes it real. I hope it makes it personal. I hope it makes people stay in the topic long enough to act. I hope this film hurts people to the point that they’ll share it and keep the discussion and the protest alive. Our future is in the youth, not just Latino youth…all youth.”
Watch “Screams” with the embedded video below.
“Screams” is produced by Exertion Films. Cinematographer is Justin Cox.
