Author: Newsroom
CAST: Mark Webber, Teresa Palmer, Bodhi Palmer, Nicole Elizabeth Berger, Eric Olsen, Sarah Wright Olsen, Phoebe Tonkin
DIRECTOR: Mark Webber
WRITTEN BY: Mark Webber
PRODUCED BY: Dustin Hughes, Teresa Palmer, Mark Webber, Kai Lillie
RUNNING TIME: 95 minutes
DISTRIBUTOR: Gravitas Ventures
Mark Webber’s fantasy-reality drama, THE PLACE OF NO WORDS, stars Mark Webber (Flesh and Blood, The End of Love), Teresa Palmer (A Discovery of Witches, Lights Out, Hacksaw Ridge), Bodhi Palmer, Nicole Elizabeth Berger (Clover, Runt, All at Once), Eric Christian Olsen (Not Another Teen Movie, Battle of the Sexes), Sarah Wright (American Made, Walk of Shame), and Phoebe Tonkin (TV’s Bloom, The Originals). Gravitas Ventures will release THE PLACE OF NO WORDS, a Virtuoso 2 Films production, in select theaters and on demand on October 23, 2020. THE PLACE OF NO WORDS, written and directed by Mark Webber and produced by Dustin Hughes, Mark Webber, Teresa Palmer, and Kai Lillie was highly received at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, The 2019 Giffoni Film Festival where it won “Best Picture” and the 2019 Munich Film Festival.
“Where do we go when we die?” A question by 3-year-old Bodhi Palmer sets a real family on an imaginative adventure that explores how we cope with dying and the love, laughter, and pain we can find within it. Bodhi starring alongside his actual mother and father (Mark Webber and Teresa Palmer) and the fairy Esmeralda, played by Berger, give rare tour-de-force performances. Told through both the eyes of a father and his young son the story moves between the authentic real world and a fantasy realm filled with mythical creatures and remarkable circumstances.
THE PLACE OF NO WORDS is the latest cinematic contribution in Webber’s avant-garde style known as “reality cinema.” His unique approach to authentic storytelling began with his first feature, Explicit Ills, where he used elements from his real life, including casting his family members. In his second feature, The End of Love, his process crystalized when he cast his two-year-old son Isaac as the lead and built the entire script around their actual father-son dynamic as a way to put real love, pain, humor and vulnerability on screen. With his critically acclaimed feature, Flesh and Blood, Webber continued imbuing his work with the most personal aspects of his life by casting his actual mother, brother, his brother’s father and his biological father (who he met on screen for only the second time in over 30 years). And now with THE PLACE OF NO WORDS he has pushed this aesthetic even further into a space audiences have rarely experienced — casting his 3-year-old son and wife Teresa Palmer along with himself as a real family facing the dying process together and the audience gets to experience the story through the eyes of their 3-year old as well as both of the parents.