Shapeless
World Premiere

Shapeless

Midnight
Feature | United States | 88 MINUTES | English
Horror, Drama

The world’s a stage for Ivy—there just aren’t many people seated in front of it. Struggling to establish herself as a singer, she collects humble checks while bouncing around various New Orleans lounges and bars and crooning with her silky-smooth voice for minimal amounts of liquor-sipping patrons. But those meager paydays aren’t Ivy’s toughest battle. That’s reserved for when she’s home alone, which is when her physical insecurities overwhelm her and she succumbs to a debilitating eating disorder. Keeping her battles a secret has its consequences. Ivy is now transforming into something nightmarish. And it may be too late to reverse course.

Shapeless, a remarkably confident and unique genre work, marks the head-turning arrival of first-time feature filmmaker Samantha Aldana, as well as her close collaborator Kelly Murtagh, who wrote the script, produced and stars in the film. Pulling from deeply personal places, they’ve delivered an achingly intimate character study that doubles as a haunting, body-horror-minded examination of women’s body issues unlike anything the horror genre has seen before. —Matt Barone


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Samantha Aldana

Samantha Aldana is an award-winning director and writer. Her work is influenced by the storytelling traditions of her multicultural upbringing in the south and Caribbean. Samantha is an alumni of The Gotham, Tribeca Film Institute Network, Emerging Voices, and NBC’s Diversity Director Program. She holds a bachelor’s from Columbia College Chicago.

Director
Samantha Aldana
Producer
Lizzie Guitreau, R. Todd Campbell, William Ramsey, Brian C. Miller Richard
Screenwriter
Kelly Murtagh, Bryce Parsons-Twesten
Cinematographer
Natalie Kingston
Editor
Stephen Pfeil
Composer
Mandy Hoffman
Executive Producer
Kelly Murtagh, Bobby Gilchrist
Post-Production Supervisor
Misty Talley
Cast
Kelly Murtagh, Bobby Gilchrist, Jamie Neumann, Marco Dapper, Erika Ashley, Gralen Bryant Banks

Contacts
Print Source
Stephen Pfiel
New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: 985 634 7288
stephen.editor.504@gmail.com
International Sales Contact
Pip Ngo
XYZ Films
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Phone: 310 982 6025
pip@xyzfilms.com
US Sales Contact
Pip Ngo
XYZ Films
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Phone: 310 982 6025
pip@xyzfilms.com
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