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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.

Unless you’re a fan of her stand-up or you’ve already seen “Shiva Baby,” you’re likely not super familiar with the work of Rachel Sennott. The young actress-comedian has been sitting on a breakout performance in her festival darling debut, “Shiva Baby,” for over a year now, and finally, the world is going to be introduced to her unique brand of comedy…and terror.

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.

Rachel Sennott is definitely a star on the rise who you should be watching!

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).

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.