INTERVIEW: Director Amy Grill's 'Speaking in Code'

In 2005 filmmaker Amy Grill, currently a producer-in-residence at Emerson College, began filming a behind-the-scenes account of a handful of characters within the electronic music scene. The result is “Speaking in Code,” an intimate and sometimes heartbreaking look into a world where people get lost in music.

Filmed in 11 cities in five countries, the 34-year-old Grill weaves together the story of eight individuals including two bad-boy producers, two DJs, a journalist and her then husband David Day, a Boston-based promoter and current arts and entertainment editor for The Weekly Dig.

Slotted to premiere at Boston’s Independent Film Festival at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 23 at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, “Speaking in Code” is making its world debut at IFFBoston. Grill, who says she lives somewhere between Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco, chats to Loaded Gun Boston about her fears (running out of money), her greatest achievement (finishing “Speaking in Code”) and the ultimate guilty pleasure (spa time).

Click here for the complete interview and here for tickets to the 7 p.m. Thursday, April 23 premiere of "Speaking in Code."

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