Originally entitled WORMEATER, my debut feature MATRIARCH will receive its international premiere at Celluloid Screams in Sheffield, UK on Saturday October 22nd! My short film THE STOMACH won Best Short Film at Celluloid Screams in 2014 and I’ve been back a couple of times since as a punter/drunk idiot so am delighted and honoured that Rob and the rest of the CS gang are including my debut feature in their rather banging 2022 line-up.
MATRIARCH stars Jemima Rooper and Kate Dickie as LAURA and CELIA BIRCH, a long-estranged daughter and mother who are reunited after Laura mysteriously survives a fatal overdose. Claiming to be acting on a mother’s intuition, Celia contacts Laura the day after her near death experience and lures her back to the village from which Laura ran away as a teenager, promising to take care of her. But as Laura’s body starts to secrete a strange black ooze, the village’s strange secrets come bubbling to the surface.
More festival news and streaming details coming soon…