Soundproof (film)

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{{Infobox television

| image = Soundproof.jpg

| image_size = 250

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| genre = Thriller

| creator =

| developer =

| writer = Sukey Fisher

| director = Edmund Coulthard

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| starring = Susan Lynch
Joseph Mawle
Joanna Dunbar
Brendan Coyle
Neil Stuke
Michael Colgan
Eve Myles

| theme_music_composer =

| composer = Mark Richter
Max Richter

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English
BSL

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| num_episodes = 1

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| executive_producer = Robin Gutch
Hilary Salmon

| producer = Madonna Baptiste

| editor = William Diver

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| cinematography = Peter Greenhalgh

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| runtime = 90 minutes

| company = Blast! Films

| channel = BBC2

| released = {{Start date|2006|07|12|df=y}}

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Soundproof is a single British television drama film, written by Sukey Fisher (under the pseudonym of Joe Fisher), that first broadcast on BBC2 on 12 July 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/soundproof/|title=BBC – Drama – Soundproof}} Directed by Edmund Coulthard, the film starred Joseph Mawle as Dean Whittingham, a profoundly deaf man accused of murder, and Susan Lynch as Penny, his sign-language interpreter. The film was commissioned in September 2005.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/09_september/28/soundproof.shtml|title=BBC – Press Office – Soundproof: A new film for BBC TWO}} The BBC listing describes the film as "a gripping urban thriller that breaks new ground in bringing deaf and hearing actors together." As such, the film was conducted partly in sign-language and subtitles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jul/12/broadcasting.bbc1|title=BBC thriller boosts deaf actors|website=TheGuardian.com|date=12 July 2006}}

Director Edmund Coulthard said of the production: "I wanted to create a rollercoaster thriller that takes the viewer into the experience of being deaf in a very different way. In trying to work out whether the lead deaf character is innocent or guilty, the viewer has to experience Dean's world through his eyes." The score for the film was composed by Mark and Max Richter. Soundproof won a BAFTA TV Award for best director in 2007, and was also nominated for an RTS Television Award for Best Female Actor for Susan Lynch and Breakthrough for Joseph Mawle.