Eva Victor touched down at Dublin’s Storyhouse screenwriting festival this week, where the actor-writer-director broke down the challenges and lessons they learned when making their debut feature Sorry, Baby.
The film, which Victor wrote, directed and starred in, premiered at Sundance in 2025 before it was snapped up by A24 for $8M. The film’s logline is ‘Something bad happened to Agnes, but life goes on…for everyone around her at least.”
Victor said that after they wrote the script “the challenge was actually with the fact that I realized I wanted to direct it but didn’t know how to do that. It took about three years between sending the script and shooting it and, in that time, I needed to prepare to direct because I wanted to do it very well.”
Barry Jenkins produced the title with Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak’s Pastel. Victor recalled Jenkins sending them a
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