Love Thy Neighbor: The Orchard to Support “Nasty Baby” During Postpartum Phase

Deemed “unfit” for TIFF, Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby is the latest addition to The Orchard’s ever expanding Sundance family grove. IndieWIRE reports that The NEXT section gem joins Paul Davidson’s other Park City grabs (most ballsy-attentioning getting) items such as Patrick Brice’s The Overnight, Joe Swanberg’s Digging for Fire, docs Bryan Carberry & Clay Tweel’s Finders Keepers and Matthew Heineman’s Cartel Land (both are hitting True/False Film Fest next month). The distrib will release the film later this year, which means there’ll be further ops to catch the film on the fest circuit.

Gist: This centers around a Brooklyn couple, Freddy and his boyfriend Mo, who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly (Wiig). Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about babies – it’s clear he’s dying to be a father. Polly is a family practitioner who is more interested in having a baby than having a man. Mo is hesitant about the entire idea, especially when Polly isn’t having success with Freddy’s sperm and the donor responsibility shifts to him.

Worth Noting: Also a Berlin Int. Film Festival selection, this was awarded the festival’s The Queer “Teddy” Film Award.

Do We Care?: Further demonstrating Kristin Wiig’s knack and skillset in the indie film sphere, Nasty Baby, which was among my personal top five film items among the 30+ films I caught at this year’s fest, is definitely an impressively devised two-toned film item that gets all cuddly before joltingly audacious. It further demonstrates Silva’s unique vision and versatility as a filmmaker, and he is a pretty good at pinch-hitting as an actor.