Shudder
Presents…
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Jennifer Reeder
STARRING Kiah McKirnan, Alicia SIlverstone, Christopher Lowell, Melanie Liburd, Ireon Roach
IN THEATERS AUGUST 25, 2023
STREAMING ON SHUDDER SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
SYNOPSIS: Jonny Baptiste is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie. On her 18th birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing at her new school, a mythically feral Jonny goes after the Perpetrator.
WRITER & DIRECTOR: Jennifer Reeder
CAST: Kiah McKirnan, Alicia SIlverstone, Christopher Lowell, Melanie Liburd, Ireon Roach
RUNTIME: 110 minutes
ABOUT WRITER/DIRECTOR – Jennifer Reeder
Jennifer Reeder constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism. These films have shown consistently around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, The Berlin Film Festival, The Tribeca Film Festival, The Rotterdam Film Festival, The London Film Festival, SXSW, The Venice Biennale and The Whitney Biennial. Her awards include several that have qualified her films for Oscar nomination.
She won a Creative Capital Grant in Moving Image in 2015, short film funding from Rooftop/Adrienne Shelly Foundation in 2016 and short film funding from the Hamburg Film Fund in 2016. She was a USA Artist nominee for 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020.She was a Herb Alpert Film Award nominee in 2018. She won a 2018/19 scriptwriting award from SFFIM/Rain in Foundation. She is the 2019 recipient of the Alpert Film Award residency at the MacDowell Colony. Her most recent film, KNIVES AND SKIN was theatrically released in France in November 2019 through UFO and in the US in December 2019 through IFC Midnight.
