IFC Films has picked up the U.S. rights to “The Sound of Silence” starring Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones, the company announced Tuesday.
“The Sound of Silence,” the debut feature from Michael Tyburski, premiered at 2019’s Sundance Film Festival as part of the U.S. Dramatic competition. IFC will release the film theatrically later in 2019.
Tyburski co-wrote the film with Ben Nabors, who together wrote the short film “Palimpsest” from 2013 that won the Special Jury Award from Sundance that year.
“The Sound of Silence” follows a self-taught scientist, Peter (Sarsgaard), working in New York City as a “house tuner”–a unique, highly specialized profession he’s invented.