In "SILO," Cody (played by Broadway actor Jack DiFalco) eventually sinks under the corn. And no parent, spouse, grandparent, cousin, friend can fix it - and, too often, neither can trained first responders. The sound of an emergency call fills the image: "Two individuals involved in a grain entrapment." The wail of a siren brought me chills. A camera pans up the side of a grain bin. No youth died from grain entrapment in 2020.Īs a parent, the images in "SILO" made me ill the first time I saw the film. It is also a historic fact that one in five of all agricultural confined spaces accidents involve young adults and children under 21. If you are trapped in grain, there's a 40% chance you'll come out alive there's a 60% chance you will die. The fate of that man below Cody in "SILO" plays out in real-life entrapments nearly 60% of the time. That rough, farming hand remains visible above the surface of the corn for a moment, then it is gone. Viewers see that man sink helplessly into a vortex of moving corn, his cries silenced at once as he disappears, but for his hand. He is the farmer Cody tried to save moments before. In case we are to wonder at Cody's fate, we consider the man below him. As he inhales, the pile squeezes tighter upon his chest. Cody struggles for breath in a place where the physics of moving corn make every shallow breath more difficult than the last. The fireman hangs from the rungs of a steel ladder. When Cody chokes out a question about the fireman's plan, his response is: "We keep you breathing." Life is down to a breath - the odds of the next one, bleak. Frank, his firefighter rescuer and calm encourager, buys seconds and oxygen a little bit at a time. Eighteen-year-old Cody is trapped chest-deep in corn. Inside a grain bin, tragedy is unfolding. It is a well-done feature film, two stories of time - one where the viewer instinctively feels death just seconds away and the other played out among the moralities of a small farming community. "SILO" is not a grain bin safety film, done large.
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"SILO" also will be available to 97% of homes with cable via Video On Demand, iTunes, Vudu, Amazon, Google and all other paid platforms. "SILO" will be released in at least 215 theatres across 32 states. 'SILO' is outside the box for them, but they believe whole-heartedly in its mission." Oscilloscope and the filmmakers are giving a portion of the film's proceeds to The National Fallen Firefighters Association. "Oscilloscope gets the ethos of the film and the audience.
We're thrilled, to say the least," said "SILO" Producer Samuel Goldberg. "It's a unique release, but an absolutely huge one for an indie film of our size. Film distributor Oscilloscope Laboratory will re-release "SILO" on May 7. Produced in 2018, its depiction of grain entrapment is coming with renewed vigor to screens big and small. The film "SILO" does stand witness to those deaths, showing viewers what few see. Rarely are there witnesses to the outcome. Tragically, entrapments are preventable - fewer are accidents, more are the result of an intentional decision to enter grain bins even with evidence of risk. (Photo courtesy of the film "Silo")ĭeath from grain entrapment is a tragedy by horrific suffocation. Twenty men died in 2020 by suffocation in grain. "SILO" takes viewers inside the tragedy of grain entrapment.
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