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The White Goddess

A solitary writer takes in an injured man that she finds in the woods somewhere far north and strange things begin to happen.

  • Eugina Gelbelman
    Director
  • Sean Coulton
    Director
  • Eugina Gelbelman
    Writer
  • Eugina Gelbelman
    Producer
  • Yunah Hong
    Producer
  • Morgan Everitt
    Key Cast
    "Rebecca"
  • Jonathan Peck
    Key Cast
    "Andrew"
  • David Schultz (Editor and Composer)
    Crew
  • Radale Locke (Assistant Director)
    Crew
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 15 minutes
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    DCI 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Fright Nights Festival
    Pasching
    Austria
    October 14, 2021
    Worldwide Premiere
    Winner Best Actress/ Nominated Best Feature Film
Distribution Information
  • Indie Rights
    Distributor
    Country: United States
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Eugina Gelbelman, Sean Coulton

Eugina is a first-generation Canadian-American screenwriter and director from Brooklyn, New York. Her parents are Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union. Her father is a naturalized Canadian. She wrapped shooting on her first feature film, the self-financed 10k micro-budget, "The White Goddess", in February 2020. It is a psychological thriller in the vein of Misery. She has written several other features and two episodes of television that are currently un-produced. She has seven years of experience as a content creator and filmmaker and ten years as a joke writer and open mic stand up comic.

She graduated from the Film MFA Program at Stony Brook University (a program run in part by Christine Vachon's Killer Films), with a concentration in Screenwriting in May 2019. Previously, she attended McGill University where she studied History and Russian Literature and received her Bachelor of Arts degree, with Honors, in 2013. She also studied technical filmmaking for two years at Capilano University in British Columbia and earned a Diploma in Motion Picture Arts in 2015. She is part of NYWIFT's From Script to Pre Production Program (FS2P) developing a feature film she wrote called "Daddy's Girl". https://www.fs2p.org/our-filmmakers. She is also a recipient of the 2018 New York Women in Film and Television Ha Phuong (NYWIFT-HP) Scholarship.

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Director Statement

The White Goddess is a surrealistic and darkly comedic thriller. Rebecca has retreated to a secluded chalet in Northern Canada to write. One day, during a walk, she comes upon Andrew, who lies unconscious in the snow. She brings him into the chalet and looks after him. In short time, they get to know each other and he allows himself to get close to her. Rebecca has developed an unhealthy obsession with the concept of a powerful pre-Hellenic goddess during the course of her writing research. This obsession begins to spill out onto the world and the man now unwittingly entangled in her web.