Night Waking (2020)

At home one night with their two young children, Ari and her wife Miriam face an existential threat.

Director Biography - Shoshana Rosenbaum

Shoshana Rosenbaum is a writer/director based in Washington, D.C. Her award-winning short films NIGHT WAKING, THE GOBLIN BABY and HIDE AND SEEK have screened at festivals around the U.S. and internationally. Her screenplay AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS (formerly THE GOBLIN CHILD) was named to The 2017 Bitch List. With her feature script THE CREEPY HOUSE, she was a finalist in the 2015 Austin Film Festival Pitch Competition. Her screenplays have been finalists in the Nashville Film Festival, Hollyshorts Film Festival, DC Shorts Film Festival, and Asian Pacific American Film Festival.

Director Statement

I am a big fan of disaster movies, and the small human stories within the apocalypse are always what interest me most. It was a pleasure to work on this film with so many women in leadership roles (writer, director, producer, director of photography, lighting designer/gaffer, sound mixer) telling a disaster story from two angles we rarely see: 1) putting a queer family front and center 2) focusing on how the parents of two young children handle an existential crisis.