“Em & Selma Go Griffin Looking,” the fantasy quick movie that has been amassing awards and buzz because it premiered in Sundance earlier this 12 months, has obtained the backing of two seasoned style filmmakers.
Beneath their Spooky Footage label, Roy Lee (“Weapons,” “Barbarian,” “It”) and Steven Schneider (“The Lengthy Stroll,” “Unusual Darling,” “Late Evening with the Satan”) have come on board the quick as govt producers.
Written and directed by Alexander Thompson, “Em & Selma Go Griffin Looking” is about in an alternate Thirties depression-era America and stars Pollyanna McIntosh (“The Strolling Useless”) and Tony Award-winner Milly Shapiro (“Hereditary”), as a mother-daughter duo who conflict throughout a sacred rite-of-passage hunt involving legendary beasts.
The movie has acquired vital business reward for its distinctive visible fashion and tone. The filmmakers spent 4 years in post-production as Thompson instantly oversaw a small, hand-picked crew of worldwide visible results artists to assist carry the movie’s titular creatures to life. Since Sundance, it has subsequently performed almost fifty festivals and garnered two-dozen awards so far, most not too long ago greatest director on the 2025 FilmQuest Pageant.
“Throughout our shared time within the biz, we’ve by no means seen something fairly like ‘Em & Selma Go Griffin Looking,’” mentioned Lee and Schneider. “Thompson has drawn collectively surprising sources of disparate inspiration to create a movie that feels wholly authentic and singular in its imaginative and prescient, a uncommon feat for many options, by no means thoughts an 18-minute quick. The craftsmanship and world-building specificity is phenomenal — we’re thrilled to assist in giving the movie the enhance it deserves shifting into awards seasons. We count on huge issues from Thompson and his crew shifting ahead, and we’re glad we had been capable of be there the place the journey started for this visionary author/director.”
Added Thompson: “The entire crew is extremely excited and grateful for Roy and Steven’s assist. ‘Em & Selma’ was a half-decade obsession that taught me so many great and painful classes, and launched me to quite a lot of indispensable new collaborators I can’t wait to proceed rising alongside. I’m humbled that Roy and Steven at the moment are a part of a small cadre of daring souls who’ve helped carry our unusual little mom/daughter fable to a wider viewers.”
“Em & Selma Go Griffin Looking” is produced by Roger M. Mayer of Brooklyn Reptyle Productions, alongside govt producers Russell Sanzgiri & Zeus Kontoyannis of Zeus Footage and Pierce Csurgo & Joseph Zentil of Unusual Customs. Thompson is represented by IAG, Redshift Administration and Myman Greenspan.
