After getting laid off, a single mom struggles to hide her homelessness from her estranged brother and his wife.
Beth (Vivian Kerr) has recently been laid off and struggles to maintain the appearance of a successful middle-class lifestyle as she bounces around Los Angeles. Hoping to land a new job and change her situation before her estranged older brother Ben (Anthony Rapp) finds out, Beth must confront her own pride in order to reconnect with him and provide for her young daughter Birdy. Meanwhile, Ben and his wife Stacy (Lana Parrilla) consider a third round of IVF and Stacy, a successful attorney, must re-evaluate her own conflicted relationship with motherhood.
Vivian Kerr is an LA-based actor, writer, director, and producer with her company Rue Dangeau. She recently won the 2024 Austin Film Festival Drama Teleplay Pilot Award for her historical drama THE MITFORDS.
SCRAP, her feature film debut, co-starring Anthony Rapp, Lana Parrilla, Beth Dover, and Khleo Thomas, world premiered in competition at the 2022 Deauville-American Film Festival and has 40+ official selections on the festival circuit.
SCRAP won the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Naples International Film Festival, Coronado Island Film Festival, Fargo Film Festival, Fayetteville Film Festival, SModcastle Film Festival, and Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival.
Vivian also recently won the NYWIFT Award for Excellence in Narrative Directing at the SOHO International Film Festival, a Special Jury Prize in Acting Achievement at Phoenix Film Festival, Outstanding Actress at Micheaux Film Festival, Best Director at Mystic Film Festival, the MINT Spirit Award at the Montana International Film Festival, Best Actress at Beaufort International Film Festival, and Best Director at Waco Independent Film Festival.
Her second feature, SÉANCE, a Victorian-era psychological thriller, was selected for Wscripted’s Cannes Screenplay List and recently had its World Premiere at the 2024 Newport Beach Film Festival.
World Premiere, Deauville-American Film Festival - 2022
