The Vanguard 5k Rock-a-thon is coming to Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, CA on Saturday, November 17 at 9:30 a.m. This event is designed to motivate the VU community to help create awareness about the domestic violence crisis.
This year, proceeds from the 5k will go towards victims of domestic violence through the “Sin by Silence” […]

Upcoming Sin by Silence fund-raising event gets some press. Check out the article on the front page of the Daily Pilot - http://dailypilot.com/articles/2007/09/04/education/dpt-vanguard04.txt

Exciting news! SIN BY SILENCE is a finalist for the Roy W. Dean Grant. This unique grant is available to compelling stories about little known subjects, and films that expose and bring important information to light. The SIN BY SILENCE team is honored to be a finalist amongst many other exceptional documentaries!
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Each year the Playboy Foundation chooses a small number of documentaries to fund that express social justice, promote social change, and enhance principles of personal freedom. Sin By Silence is honored to be one of their recipients. This generous grant will allows for a pivotal artistic dimension of an original score to be underwritten […]

This is my last post for my internship, seeing as yesterday was technically my last day working for Olivia Klaus and SIN BY SILENCE. I just did a rough cut for the prison of choir songs we recorded…”praaa-aaa-aaa-iiissee You!”…sorry…still in my head! I am so grateful that I have been able to work on this […]

Lately all I have been doing is going down to the studio to edit stuff. I think I’ve done this about 4 times now, I did some subclipping the first day, then started working on the footage of the little kids, and they are still as funny as they were when we filmed them! I […]

Sin By Silence was the second place winner of the nationwide Pitchfest Trailer Contest. Mainstream feature films regularly dominate this event. For a documentary to win this screenplay competition is a huge accomplishment.

Friday was an early morning. we had to be at the prison in Chino at 8:30 for an interview with the warden, which took longer than we thought because Lt. Aaron was dealing with like three other camera crews…they were interesting individuals. The one guy was nice, i think he was from the prison up […]

I got to go to the prison last monday again, which was cool- is it bad that it really does remind me of “cell block tango” from “Chicago” without the black pleather and fishnets, of course… that song was in my head the entire time we were there. I don’t know why I find it […]

Today we met at the women’s prison in Chino for the CWAA meeting. I was a little freaked out because let’s face it, I’m a sheltered kid, and I had no idea what to expect…what I had in my head was a cross between “The Green Mile” and “Shawshank Redemption”, so I was pleasantly surprised […]