21st Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 18-28, 2024 Globe Cinema

12th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 20-24, 2024 Globe Cinema

Birth/Rebirth

United States, 2023 : Canadian Premiere
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description

A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead. A standout directorial debut that reimagines Mary Shelley’s classic horror myth FRANKENSTEIN with such a contemporary understanding that it becomes something exciting, terrifying, and singularly new.

Rose (Marin Ireland) is a pathologist who prefers working with corpses over social interaction. She also has an obsession — the reanimation of the dead. Celie (Judy Reyes) is a maternity nurse who has built her life around her bouncy, chatterbox six-year-old daughter, Lila (A.J. Lister). When one tragic night, Lila suddenly falls ill and dies, the two women's worlds crash into each other. They embark on a dark path of no return where they will be forced to confront how far they are willing to go to protect what they hold most dear.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Sundance 2023

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Laura is a filmmaker from NYC whose work has screened at Tribeca, Rotterdam, and SXSW. Their short film FRY DAY is featured on the Criterion Channel. They directed the sci-fi/comedy pilot EUREKA, which won Best Director, Comedy Pilot at Seriesfest. They were a 2020 Sundance Screenwriters/Directors Labs fellow. Their award-winning screenplay, GORDON, co-written with Brendan J. O’Brien, is currently in development.

press for Birth/Rebirth

"A fiendish and atmospheric riff on classic monster legends and a welcome addition to a certain horror sub-genre propelled by brawny but burdened mamas."
- Harper's Bazaar

screened with a short film

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Little Things Are Scary

2022, 5 m, United States, Director Sean Pierce

details

Narrative / Horror / Thriller / Suspense / First Feature / LGBTQ+

English
98 minutes

special guest

Director Laura Moss in attendance for in-person Q&A

credits

Director
Laura Moss

Executive Producers
Jordan Barker
Brendan J. O'Brien
Emily Gotto

Producers
Mali Elfman
David Grove Churchill Viste

Screenwriters
Laura Moss
Brendan J. O'Brien

Cinematographer
Chananun Chotrungroj

Cast
Marin Ireland
Breeda Wool
Judy Reyes
A.J. Lister

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