The fight to make ‘Sound Of Metal’: “Hollywood didn’t want to hear about heavy metal and deaf people”

Riz Ahmed on the set of 'Sound Of Metal'

Source: Courtesy of Amazon Studios

Sound Of Metal began as a hybrid docufiction in 2007, directed by Derek Cianfrance, and emerged over a decade later as the fiction feature debut of Darius Marder

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