Rising indie filmmaker Grace Glowicki’s newest, “Lifeless Lover,” has hooked up gross sales company Yellow Veil Footage to buy the mission out of the upcoming Sundance Movie Competition. She serves as director, star and co-writer.
Premiering within the Midnight part, the movie stars Glowicki as a lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses. When she lastly meets her dream man (Ben Petrie), their whirlwind affair is lower quick when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him via madcap scientific experiments, leading to grave penalties and unlikely love.
Leah Doz and Lowen Morrow additionally star. Glowicki, Petrie, and Yona Strauss are producing. The screenplay was co-written with Petrie.
This marks the second characteristic from Glowicki following 2019’s “Tito,” which premiered at SXSW and earned the the Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award “in honor of a filmmaker whose work strives to be wholly its personal, with out regard for norms or need to evolve.” She broke out as an actress within the 2016 movie “Her Pal Adam,” which nabbed a particular jury prize that yr.
“I’m so thrilled to be working with Yellow Veil Footage on the discharge of Lifeless Lover! Ben, Yona and I’ve nice respect for his or her slate and their imaginative and prescient, and we’re thrilled this film has discovered its strategy to their succesful palms,” mentioned Glowicki.
Joe Yanick of Yellow Veil added that the corporate was “so charmed by the ability of ‘Lifeless Lover’ – a film that manages large tones of deliriousness, humor, grotesqueness, and wonder in equal measures.” Yanick added that the mission was “each pastiche and fashionable: not the Frankenstein movie we’ve come to know, however the Frankenstein movie all of us deserve.”
The Sundance Movie Competition kicks off Jan. 23 in Utah.
