Theodore Schaefer’s anomalous debut feature, Giving Birth to a Butterfly, manages to say a lot about family, sacrifice, and identity without really saying much at all. Shot on 16mm film, there’s an ...

Such is the case with Theodore Schaefer and “Giving Birth to a Butterfly,” a 77-minute fable as strangely tender as its title suggests, even if the ultimate catharsis isn’t as finely shaped as the ...

Starring Annie Parisse (“Law & Order,” “The Following”) and Gus Birney (“Dickinson”), Theodore Schaefer’s “Giving Birth to a Butterfly,” one of the buzz titles at August’s Fantasia Intl. Film Festival ...

"I got scammed, Marlene, that's why we're doing this." Cinedigm has revealed a trailer for an experimental indie film titled Giving Birth to a Butterfly, marking the feature directorial debut of ...

Steeped in a distinctly American nostalgia, this beautifully peculiar debut feature has a Lynchian quality. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Filmmakers from all around the globe are in Wilmington this week for the Cucalorus Film Festival, which is in its 27th year. Ted Schaefer, who wrote and directed “Giving ...

Our projected identities—and the constant performance inherent in presenting ourselves—fuel the surrealist philosophy of Ted Schaefer’s Giving Birth to a Butterfly. The filmmaker’s directorial debut, ...