Rising indie filmmaker Grace Glowicki’s latest, “Dead Lover,” has attached sales agency Yellow Veil Pictures to shop the project out of the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. She serves as director, star and co-writer.
Premiering in the Midnight section, the film stars Glowicki as a lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses. When she finally meets her dream man (Ben Petrie), their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
Leah Doz and Lowen Morrow also star. Glowicki, Petrie, and Yona Strauss are producing. The screenplay was co-written with Petrie.
This marks the second feature 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 own, without regard for norms or desire to conform.” She broke out as an actress in the 2016 film “Her Friend Adam,” which nabbed a special jury prize that year.
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“I am so thrilled to be working with Yellow Veil Pictures on the release of Dead Lover! Ben, Yona and I have great respect for their slate and their vision, and we’re thrilled this movie has found its way to their capable hands,” said Glowicki.
Joe Yanick of Yellow Veil added that the company was “so charmed by the power of ‘Dead Lover’ – a movie that manages massive tones of deliriousness, humor, grotesqueness, and beauty in equal measures.” Yanick added that the project was “both pastiche and modern: not the Frankenstein film we’ve come to know, but the Frankenstein film we all deserve.”
The Sundance Film Festival kicks off Jan. 23 in Utah.