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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. Her most recent project, the pilot Soft Boil, was selected for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and 2026 Slamdance Film Festival.
Scrap, her feature debut, co-starring Anthony Rapp and Lana Parrilla, world premiered in competition at the Deauville-American Film Festival and went on to screen in 44 film festivals worldwide and won 23 awards before becoming "certified fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes with a 98% rating. Her second feature, Séance, a Victorian Gothic thriller shot by DP Johanna Coelho (HBO MAX's The Pitt), recently screened at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Dances with Films, and Fantaspoa and won Best Narrative Feature at Beaufort International Film Festival.
As a writer, she won the 2024 Austin Film Festival Drama Teleplay Pilot Award for her historical drama The Mitfords, out of more than 10,000 entries. Her pilot, Five Points, about the female-led gangs of 19th-century New York, was accepted into Sony Pictures TV’s Rising Storytellers Search, Stowe Story Lab, the Story Incubator Writing Lab, the Moonshot Initiative Pilot Accelerator, and was recently included on the 2025 Women's List.
She specializes in collaborating with other multi-hyphenates, crafting a unique visual style for each project that centers performance and thematic impact.
Deauville Film Festival 2022
Cinequest Film Festival 2023
Galway Film Fleadh 2023
Phoenix Film Festival 2023
Naples International Film Festival 2023
Naples International Film Festival - Jury Award - Best Narrative Feature
Waco Independent Film Festival - Jury Award - Best Director
SOHO International Film Festival - NYWIFT Award for Excellence in Narrative Directing
Coronado Island Film Festival - Jury Award - Best Narrative Feature
Fargo Film Festival - Jury Award - Best Narrative Feature
Ben - Anthony Rapp
Stacy - Lana Parrilla
Beth - Vivian Kerr
Marcus - Khleo Thomas
Esther - Beth Dover
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