What people are saying about A Powerful Noise
"A POWERFUL NOISE is a new documentary that examines, through the sheer will of three culturally diverse women, the power of a single human being, immeasurably more trying due to their gender, to arouse and stir others to fight the good fight in the name of man and womankind. Be it poverty in Mali, AIDS in Vietnam or bridging the politics of hate in Bosnia from a war with Serbia that continues to sear the business and farming community, A POWERFUL NOISE, captures the odd beauty of their successful crusades in a fight that needs to be won for a planet that always leans toward self-destruction. Colorfully photographed, never to the point of slickness, the film succeeds as a lesson, a primer and a guide. The powerful noise of the title is the empowerment that these exceptional/unexceptional women create through their inspirational living stories and so empower others. This distaff trio is heroic because circumstances reinforce the truism that in unity there is strength. These women are driven by that elusive trait of courage, often bourne of great personal loss, which inspires a rousing call to redemption of wrongs that need to be challenged and won by souls without heraldry, but decency. In its own quiet way, A Powerful Noise stands as a shining example of how the contagiousness of disease and prejudice can be neutralized by the contagiousness of compassion and hard work and basic humanity. A real-life tale needing to be told and, in this ever fragile world, a film needing to be seen." ***1/2
