What makes Confessions of a Sound Girl potentially revolutionary is that its sound design is its plot. In a normal film, the score underscores emotion. In this film, the production track is the emotion.
According to a single, now-deleted tweet from a sound editor in Burbank: “Just got the stems for CONFESSIONS OF A SOUND GIRL. Honour May Zar’s dialogue track is so clean it’s terrifying. No room tone. No breath. Like she’s recording inside a vacuum. Director lost his mind.”
If true, this suggests that Zar’s character exists in a different acoustic reality than the rest of the cast—a narrative device that implies her character may be a ghost, an AI, or a hallucination caused by prolonged headphone use (a condition known as “audio fatigue syndrome”).
Regardless of whether Confessions of a Sound Girl sees a 2026 festival release or remains a legendary unfunded script on a hard drive somewhere, the phrase “Cast Honour May Zar” has already entered the lexicon of film Twitter. Confessions Of A Sound Girl Cast Honour May Zar...
To say a director should “cast Honour May Zar” means: Hire the person who knows the craft better than you do. Hire the technician who can act, the actor who can mix, the anomaly who defies categorization.
It is a call to disrupt the traditional hierarchy of film sets, where sound department is often treated as the blue-collar stepchild of camera and lighting. Honour May Zar represents a future where the person holding the boom pole is also the person delivering the monologue.
Because for too long, I thought being a good tech meant being invisible. Strong, silent, never asking for thanks. But that’s not honest. The truth is, I need the cast as much as they need the mic. What makes Confessions of a Sound Girl potentially
So this is my confession: I’m not just running sound. I’m holding space. And May, Zar, and every name on that cast sheet—you made the static worth it.
"Confessions of a Sound Girl follows a young sound technician (Honour May Zar) as she pieces together the audio fragments of her past—finding solace, betrayal, and truth in the spaces between noise."
For those unfamiliar with the name, Honour May Zar has been steadily carving a path through the independent circuit. Known for her intense preparation and a naturalistic acting style that feels almost documentary-like, Zar previously appeared in Echo Chamber (2023) and the off-off-Broadway revival of Top Girls. However, Confessions of a Sound Girl marks her first role where technical proficiency meets emotional vulnerability. According to a single, now-deleted tweet from a
Director Mina Lerner (known for the avant-garde Frequency of Touch) personally selected Zar after a unique audition process. Instead of a monologue, Lerner asked actors to identify and describe every sound in a 60-second recording of a busy café.
“Honour was the only one who noticed the third hiccup of a steam wand at 0:48,” Lerner recalls. “Then she told me a story about who was making that coffee and why they were sad. That’s not just acting. That’s world-building.”
The ensemble cast includes stage veteran Ivor Kaine as the cinema’s blind night manager and newcomer Simi Adebayo as a mysterious singer whose voice is never shown on camera—only heard. Zar says the dynamic on set has been “charged but warm.”
“We did a three-day sound immersion workshop before shooting a single frame,” she says. “We had to build a scene using only foley. No dialogue. Just the sound of a zipper, a dropped key, a door not quite latching. By day two, we were crying. Sound is that powerful.”
The production is shooting in a hybrid format: half the film will be presented in traditional widescreen, while the other half will be shown as a first-person “POV of the mixing board” — a risky aesthetic choice that has distributors curious.