After gaining recognition at the end of the 2010s with short funny videos posted on X, Eva Victor – who identifies as non-binary – embarked on a second career at 31 as an actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. A successful career shift: Their first feature film Sorry, Baby won an award at the Sundance Film Festival and was selected in May for the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes. "I don't think I want to continue making something, putting it out that day and then hearing people's opinions on it," Victor said on a Friday in July during a Zoom interview. "I think I was really craving doing something that was a longer form piece that could say a lot of things in it."

Agnes, their character – a restless woman trying to overcome trauma – owes much to Victor's own life experience, a subject they are reluctant to discuss in detail. Having been sexually assaulted several years ago, Victor said they found a form of healing in making Sorry, Baby: "As a director, directing myself as an actor, I chose where my body went at every point. I felt very safe." Above all, they wanted "people to come in feeling like the film's going to take care of them." They hoped to forge a sense of community among viewers: "I think laughing and crying, they're in a circle, and they touch on something essential."

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