Completed · Now Submitting to Festivals
Room Tone
Written, directed and produced by Scott W Burton
Two people unknowingly describe the same unfinished relationship through separate filmed interviews.
About the Film
Some relationships never become the past.
Laura and Callum arrive on different days to participate in a filmed interview project about relationships that never completely ended. Neither knows the other has taken part. As carefully prepared questions move deeper into memory, regret and the lives they built afterward, two separate testimonies begin to reveal the same unfinished love.
Told almost entirely through intimate interviews, Room Tone is a restrained drama about silence, timing and the difference between moving forward and truly letting go.
The Story
What remains after the conversation ends.
Memory
Two people remember the same relationship from opposite sides of its silence.
Absence
The empty space between them becomes as present as either person in the room.
Choice
The film asks whether honesty offered in private can still change what happens next.
The Cast
The people in the room.
- Laura
- Maisie James
- Callum
- Patrick Gallagher
- Miriam
- Katharine Reeves
- Ellis
- Rei Haycraft
The Crew
Behind the film.
- Written and Directed by
- Scott W Burton
- Produced by
- Scott W Burton and Jacob A. Hauser
- Executive Producer
- Tommy Priest
- Director of Photography
- Jacob A. Hauser
- Editor
- Scott W Burton
- First Assistant Director
- Jaysen P. Buterin
- Key Makeup Artist
- Marisol Feliciano Cotton
- Sound Designer
- Colin Adair
- Dialogue Editor
- Colin Adair
- Foley Artist
- Colin Adair
- Re-recording Mixer
- Colin Adair
- Sound Mixer
- Jason Durgala Jr.
- Gaffer & Key Grip
- Louis Bekoe
- Still Photographer
- Maurice Hicks
Film Details
About the production.
- Production
- A Scott W Burton Production
- Format
- Short Film
- Genre
- Drama
- Runtime
- 25 minutes 31 seconds
- Status
- Completed · Festival submissions underway
- Production Year
- 2026
Creative Approach
A room built around what cannot be said directly.
The visual language is deliberately spare: one chair, one camera, a controlled pool of light and the low electrical hum beneath apparent silence. The form keeps attention on performance, pauses and the small physical choices that reveal what the characters are still trying to conceal.
“There are people you get over… and people you only learn how to carry without letting anyone else see.”
Behind the Scenes
Between takes.
A look inside the making of Room Tone, from the conversations between takes to the people working just outside the frame.
Behind-the-scenes photography by Maurice Hicks.
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