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🔥 This horror is scripted. Your goosebumps are not.
A 12-year-old mixed martial artist grapples with her suffocating new sports bra and her domineering dad, pushing her changing body to surreal limits during her toughest match yet.
"CUB" by Sofia Rubin
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More About "CUB":
12-year-old Kim hates Martial Arts. Her hair is in her mouth, her opponent is a vicious little princess, and her sports bra is squeezing the life out of her. But this is her biggest tournament yet, and Dad will damn her to Hell if she doesn’t win. The scouts are here, and they could make or break her (and Dad’s) career. As anxiety and expectations build, Kim’s body starts to change: new hair sprouts from her arms, new claws pierce through her gloves, new canines knock out her mouth guard. And as Kim transforms, so does everyone else. Everyone is an animal, screeching and hollering. If they want a show, Kim will give them a show. She’ll go straight for the jugular. How about this for a prize fighter, Dad?
Director’s Statement:
Puberty as a girl sucks. Bras are suffocating, hair sprouts everywhere, adults are suddenly weird about your body. If that wasn’t bad enough, I had other kids trying to choke me out every week. I grew up practicing Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and got my black belt at 9 years old. I hated fighting, just like Kim.
Experiencing that visceral anxiety so young was the perfect seed for a body-horror coming-of-age story: going through puberty in such a violently physical environment was stifling, especially while my dad was pushing me to win. To evoke that feeling in our characters and our audience, my team and I developed a camera language of close, suffocating shots that breathe down the protagonist’s neck, taking inspo from films like ‘Black Swan’ and ‘American Honey.’
"CUB" Credits:
Director – Sofia Rubin
Writers – Sofia Rubin, Myles Brewer
Producers – Myles Brewer, James Kolsby, Sago
Executive Producers – Annaliese Kambour, Mina Malik & Derek Sells, Hugo de Sousa
Director of Photography – James Kolsby
Editors – Myles Brewer, Sofia Rubin
Production Designer – Angela Chesser
Costume Design – Annaliese Kambour
Casting – Ally Beans, CSA
1st Assistant Director – Caroline Bates
Associate Producers – Tiffany Trotter, Michelle Vessio
1st Assistant Camera – Tim Caruso
2nd Assistant Camera – Jakob Hegewisch-Allen
Sound Recordist – Hunter Hawke
Boom Operator – Nick Kapp
Gaffer – Gabrielle Lenhard
Key Grip – Auden Barbour
Grips – Sienna Cammarota, Mekhna George, Adi Horodniceanu
Key HMU/SFX Artist – Sarah "Era" Visina
Wardrobe Production Assistant – Gita Gandelsman
Script Supervisor – Zephyr Sigurdardottir
Stunt Coordinators – Melanie Liebetrau, Alexandra Taylor
"Kim" Body Double – Jordan Hemmerdinger
"Shayna" Body Double – Sienna Cammarota
Production Assistants – Celia D’Amato, Jordan Hemmerdinger, Yukyan Lam, Stefanie Mitchell, Emily Truong
Craft Services – Annaliese Kambour, Yukyan Lam
Sound Mixer – Maya Reter
Colorist – James Kolsby
BTS Photography – Shivam Sachdeva
Graphic Design – Theingi Tann
Music Supervisor – Sofia Rubin
Title Design – Sofia Rubin
Cast:
Avery Ilardi
Ryan Czerwonko
Uschi Umscheid
Briana Carlson-Goodman
Myles Brewer
Dennis Gupta
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