Tooth and Nail

DIRECTED BY SARA SHAW

Type of Film: Drama
Length: 22:00
Producers: Mollye Asher
Editor: Sara Shaw and Charlie Porter
Cinematographer: Zelmira Gainza

A sister makes a bargain with her terminally ill brother. He agrees to let her use his sperm if she comes out to her family that night.

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Sara Shaw is a Brooklyn-based editor and filmmaker. She started out at Boston's WGBH and then worked in acquisitions at Sony Pictures Classics. She was Director of Post Production at Gary Winick's pioneering digital production company InDigEnt. As a student in NYU's Graduate Filmmaking program, she has written and directed award-winning films, including Ballarat Ghost Town, which won the Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the 2010 Fusion Film Festival. She has edited commercials directed by James Franco and was Associate Editor on Christina Voros's The Director (Tribeca 2013). She edited Desiree Akhavan's narrative feature debut Appropriate Behavior (Sundance 2014), Frances Bodomo's Afronauts (Sundance 2014), Joey Kuhn's Those People (Outfest 2016), Adam Leon's Tramps (Toronto 2016), and Theresa Rebeck's Trouble, starring Anjelica Huston, Bill Pullman, David Morse, and Julia Stiles, and Desiree Akhavan's forthcoming The Miseducation of Cameron Post, starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, Jennifer Ehle, and John Gallagher Jr.