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Let Them Chirp Awhile
Directed by	Jonathan Blitstein
Produced by	Jonathan Blitstein Anouk Frosch
Written by	Jonathan Blitstein
Starring	Justin Rice Brendan Sexton III Laura Breckenridge Zach Galligan Pepper Binkley Charlotte af Geijerstam and special appearance by Anthony Rapp
Cinematography	Andrew Shulkind
Running time	91 Minutes
Language	English
IMDb profile

Let Them Chirp Awhile is an independent film comedy by Jonathan Blitstein which was filmed in eighteen days in New York, NY during October 2006. The film was produced by Anouk Frosch and Jonathan Blitstein. It was photographed by Andrew Shulkind. (All three are NYU Film School alumni)

The basic storyline of the film follows Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late twenties who are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams but their competitiveness with each other gets in the way. Bobby is a screenwriter and Scott is a musician but neither of them are productive because they don't believe in themselves and they share incredibly high standards for their work. Their mutual friend Hart, on the other hand, a prolific and pompous playwright, is able to crank out highly derivative but nevertheless "commercial" work and feeds on Bobby and Scott's jealousy. When Bobby makes the mistake of sharing an idea for the opening of his new screenplay with Scott, Scott tells Hart and Hart steals the idea, incorporating it in his new play "Death of a Banker", a campy morality tale about the September 11, 2001 attacks set to be performed off-Broadway later that month.

• Justin Rice — Bobby
• Brendan Sexton III — Scott
• Laura Breckenridge — Dara
• Zach Galligan — Hart Carlton
• Pepper Binkley — Michelle
• Charlotte af Geijerstam — Charlotte
• Amy Chow — Ariel
• Anthony Rapp — Himself

Playwright Neil LaBute contributed a line of dialogue to the film after Blitstein asked him for the rights to use his name in the script.

This was the first movie to ever shoot in an American Apparel Clothing Store.

The title of the film comes from a Ralph Waldo Emerson essay called Self-Reliance.

• "Let Them Chirp Awhile Official Website"

• "Official Myspace Page"

• "Pitchfork Article" From 03.23.07

• "IndieWire Article" From 11.06.06

• "CHUD.com Article" From 08.31.06