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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

EAGAN, Minn. – Time flies, just not at the moment for Kay Hamilton. The Minnesota retiree has promised a visiting TV crew a butterfly birth. But the subject of her attention seems perfectly content ...

Has Kylie Jenner named her newborn daughter Butterfly? The rumours have been mounting since the 20-year-old released her birth video online, and there’s a whole load of evidence. Most fresh are the ...