Let Them Chirp Awhile

Let Them Chirp Awhile is a 2007 independent drama-comedy by Jonathan Blitstein, filmed in just eighteen days in New York during October 2006.

Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late-twenties living in New York City, are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams.

Hart steals the idea, incorporating it in his new play "Death of a Banker," a campy morality tale starring Anthony Rapp about the September 11 attacks, which is set to be performed off-Broadway later that month.

Blitstein, was the youngest independent filmmaker ever to write, direct, produce, and edit a 35mm color feature-length film which was ultimately released in theaters.

The film was funded by friends, family members, and Blitstein's own personal savings from his job as a waiter.

Aaron Graham of Uptown Magazine wrote that the film "[Owes] much more to the early, sprightly comedies of Brian De Palma (Greetings, Hi, Mom!)

Scoring the struggles of today's self-obsessed young people with the vintage sounds of melodramatic orchestral music, the film celebrates and satirizes their hopes, fears and dreams.

The East Village becomes a place where everyday conflicts like having a meaningless idea appropriated by a friend, or a breakup are heightened to meet the characters' inflated visions of themselves.