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If you haven’t seen “Shiva Baby” yet, you really should. The comedy from writer-director Emma Seligman and star Rachel Sennott is one of the most uncomfortable, but hilarious viewing experiences you’ll have all year.

Rachel Sennott glams up in a white dress while posing with her collaborators at the Shiva Baby premiere on Thursday night (April 1) at the JW Marriott L.A. Live in Los Angeles.

Writer-director Emma Seligman brings her feature Shiva Baby to theaters and TVOD starting today — and it is quite a comedic ride.

Dianna Agron makes a rare appearance at the premiere of her new film, Shiva Baby, held at The William Vale Hotel on Tuesday night (March 30) in New York City.

One of the breakout films from last year’s festival circuit is finally hitting theaters and VOD this week. And to celebrate the release of “Shiva Baby,” the distributor has decided to unveil a new “trashy trailer” focused on the NSFW parts of the film.

Toronto-born filmmaker Emma Seligman was “honoured” her coming-of-age comedy “Shiva Baby” had its world premiere at home at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2020.

In a normal year, without a global pandemic, odds are you would have heard a lot more about “Shiva Baby” last spring. The film was expected to have its official debut at last year’s SXSW, but that event was canceled.

One of the many pleasures of the film festival circuit isn’t just getting to experience some of the biggest titles of the upcoming season, but, more often than not, finding hidden gems in the mix of it all that initially weren’t on our radars. This is the case with first-time director Emma Seligman, whose film, “Shiva Baby,” was one of the biggest surprises at this year’s Toronto Film Festival (after initially being selected for the canceled SXSW).

Manori Ravindran International EditorArthouse streaming service Mubi has snapped up rights to Toronto International Film Festival title “Shiva Baby” for the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, India, Turkey and Latin America.Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Emma Seligman, “Shiva Baby” follows a young bisexual Jewish woman at a shiva — a mourning tradition in the Jewish community — at which she must confront her over-achieving ex-girlfriend as well as her sugar daddy, his girlfriend and

“Shiva Baby” began as a 2017 short film by NYU student Emma Seligman based in part on her upbringing as a queer Jewish woman. Now, she’s turned it into a feature film that has earned rave reviews on the festival circuit, including at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.Seligman joined the film’s cast — Rachel Sennott, Polly Draper, Molly Gordon and Dianna Agron — to discuss the film with TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman.

Canadian director Emma Seligman says a dalliance while in film school at New York University led her to writing and directing Shiva Baby, about a young bisexual woman juggling lox bagels, a sugar daddy, an ex-girlfriend and nagging parents during a frantic family shiva, or post-funeral service. The filmscreened online as part of TIFF's Bell Digital Cinema platform on Sept.

Tomris Laffly In writer-director Emma Seligman’s hilarious, sneakily eruptive debut feature “Shiva Baby,” the acerbic Danielle is many things: an East Coast college senior majoring in gender studies; a young, bisexual Jewish woman; a sugar baby testing out the transactional powers of her sexuality. That last slice of her identity is a leap, but it’s the one we get to encounter first.