“The Music Inside” with Mary Ellen Trainor screens at Festival

The movie “The Music Inside” with Mary Ellen Trainor was developed unter the direction of the award-winning independent filmmaker David Scheerer. His feature feature directing debut starring Amy Redford and Mary Ellen Trainor is going to be shown at The 31st Northwest Film & Video Festival, which takes place between November 5th and 13th. The movie is scheduled to air on Monday, November 8 at 7pm at Guild Theatre.

Summary:

Annie (Amy Redford, daughter of Robert) is a recent college grad from New York who comes to Missoula to complete an internship working with recently discharged mental patients living together in a new apartment complex. Upon arrival she meets the Reverend Roger, the handsome, charismatic caretaker whom she eventually learns is not a reverend at all, but a fellow patient diagnosed with schizophrenia and a messianic complex. Despite his illness, Roger seems to have a greater grasp of the needs of his fellow patients than the overburdened state board that supposedly watches over them, and Annie finds herself taken in by his charm. After a local boy turns up missing, tensions begin to mount between the residents of the complex and their neighbors, and Annie, discovering cracks in Roger’s calm façade begins to question his judgement, as well as her own. The first feature film from the Montana Filmmaking Cooperative is an ambitious, well-thought drama that balances suspense, comedy, and romance with a humanistic view of mental illness. (NWFilm.org)

An article about the movie and the producer can be found on Montana.edu