Fantasia 2021 Exclusive: GIVING BIRTH TO A BUTTERFLY's Festival Poster
Hand painted posters are all the rage for indie films playing at Fantasia this year. We are pleased to share with you the first look at the festival poster for Theodore Schaefer's Giving Birth to a Butterfly. The film is having its premiere in the Underground Section today!
The image itself has been lifted from the film, a shot of Diana and her son's girlfriend, Marlene, that we've seen in all press releases up to now. Befitting of a film that is described as "... a unique and bewitching mix of American surrealism, ironic absurdist comedy, and the staples of the road trip genre", this interpretation of that captured image feels appropriate.
After having her identity stolen online, Diana Dent leaves her family and goes on a road trip with her son’s pregnant girlfriend to track down the perpetrators. The mismatched travel companions form an unexpected bond as they concede to the hardships of their own lives, and their hunt for answers becomes a surreal journey of self-discovery and empowerment.Starring Annie Parisse (Friends From College) and Gus Birney (I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, Dickinson), Constance Shulman (Orange Is the New Black, STRAWBERRY MANSION), and Paul Sparks (House of Cards, Boardwalk Empire).Shot on pastel-toned 16mm and intimately framed, New York-based filmmaker Theodore Schaefer’s debut feature resonates with modern myth-making and offers a unique and bewitching mix of American surrealism, ironic absurdist comedy, and the staples of the road trip genre. Set in a wonderfully strange world that lures you in from the start, the film follows the traditional trope of two unlikely paired characters, frustrated by the expectations of their role, and turns it upside down with exquisite surprises, dreamy distractions, and a lingering ethereal sense of loneliness.GIVING BIRTH TO A BUTTERFLY is written by Schaefer and Patrick Lawler and produced by Daryl Freimark (A BREAD FACTORY PART 1 & 2, HAIRSPRAY). The film is executive produced by Hannah Dweck for Dweck Productions and by Benjamin Wiessner, who is additionally handling sales for Vanishing Angle.
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