Private Project

Eden

Following the rediscovery and subsequent monetization of the Garden of Eden, as people who can afford it begin migrating back at top dollar, a young woman has to choose whether to follow their brother on the one-way journey or continue to live in a broken world.

  • Simone Hile-Bassett
    Director
    Living for Others, Small Talk
  • Simone Hile-Bassett
    Writer
    Living for Others, Small Talk
  • Simone Hile-Bassett
    Producer
    Living for Others, Small Talk
  • Bee Brown-Sparks
    Key Cast
    "Eden"
  • Eboni Edwards
    Key Cast
    "Renata"
  • Curren Gauss
    Key Cast
    "Iggy"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 14, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    2,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    BRAW
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • TRANSlations Seattle Trans Film Festival
    Seattle
    United States
    June 8, 2024
    World Premiere, Washington Premiere
Director Biography - Simone Hile-Bassett

Simone Hile Bassett is a filmmaker and novelist originally from the American Midwest. Her darkly comedic, satirical work across writing and film often explores speculative near-futures, interrogating borders between lands and between people from a trans & two-spirit perspective, and the ways technology both helps and hurts people as it burrows its way continually deeper into their bodies and minds.

Simone is a co-leader of the screenwriting workshop Filmshop, and was chosen as a 2024 fellow of Filmshop Breakthrough with her feature-length screenplay Vertical Storage Solutions for the Recently Bereaved. Her films have screened in venues around the country such as the Minnesota Film Festival and Seattle Trans Film Festival.

She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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Director Statement

Shot entirely in Bloomington IN, Summer 2023. I wrote Eden as I was preparing to move to NYC from my home state of Indiana, fearing the rising amount of anti-trans sentiment and legislation. I felt conflicted, excited to move to a place I had wanted to live for my whole life, bitter at being pushed out of a place I had never fit in but still had just as much of a claim to. Even more of a claim to, arguably. My mind took it to the extreme: what if you could return to paradise, at the cost of never returning home? Would you go?