'Shiva Baby' Writer/Director Emma Seligman on the organised chaos of indie film making
In this episode, we’re revisiting a conversation with Canadian writer-director Emma Seligman, about her debut feature – the darkly comic, utterly chaotic coming-of-age story, Shiva Baby.
Based on Seligman’s 2018 South By Southwest eight-minute short, Shiva Baby finds twenty-something Danielle (played by Rachel Sennott), dutifully attending a shiva for a family friend, where she spends her time lurching from one potentially catastrophic encounter to another, navigating spilled drinks, wailing babies, an embittered ex-girlfriend, and the appearance of her sugar daddy.
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