Birth/Rebirth

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.