STUD BOOB — Shaina Feinberg
Faculty, MFA in Film (director)
Two sisters in a bathroom debate their different approaches to the patriarchy. (2020)
Two sisters in a bathroom debate their different approaches to the patriarchy. (2020)
Shaina Feinberg
Faculty, MFA in Film
Profile
Shaina Feinberg specializes in micro-budget filmmaking.
Her first feature, THE BABYMOONERS (2016), blends documentary and narrative and was picked up for distribution by Screen Media. Her six-part digital series, Dinette (2018), which follows a close group of female (and in some cases gender-nonconforming) friends, was produced by BRIC Arts Media, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival (2018) and was shouted out by New Yorker TV writer Emily Nussbaum. Season two of Dinette (2020) stars Alysia Reiner (Orange Is the New Black), Lisa Haas (Search Party) and Maeve Higgins (EXTRA ORDINARY). Shaina’s short film, SHIVA (2017), which is a hybrid of improvised comedy and real-life grief, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival (2017). Her follow-up to that piece, a 60-minute film called SENIOR ESCORT SERVICE (2019), won the Visionary Award at Cinequest Film Festival (2019) and is being distributed by Random Media. Her third feature, BLUNDERPUSS (2020), is about a clown who goes on an apology tour after a brief stint in rehab. In 2019, Shaina was named by Indiewire as one of 25 queer filmmakers to watch.
She co-wrote and directed Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, an original series for Audible. She also directed a second original series for Audible, Phreaks, which stars Christian Slater and Carrie Coon. Shaina’s book Every Body–a candid look at sex from every angle–is due out in January 2021 from Little, Brown. Her bi-weekly column”Scratch” in The New York Times is an illustrated look at the world of business.
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Selected work
SENIOR ESCORT SERVICE — Shaina Feinberg
Faculty, MFA in Film (writer-director)
Completely distraught after the sudden loss of her dad, filmmaker Shaina Feinberg will do anything she can to connect to him again. She catalogues her dad's belongings—a calculator, a clock, a basket of lozenges. She forces her friends to wear his clothes and mimic his gestures. She takes a stab at making a webseries he'd always wanted to make—the name of which is "Senior Escort Service." And she combs through his journal, where she finds out about a process of dealing with grief that was invented by the grandchildren of Nazis. The process is called Familienaufstellung, which means Family Constellation, and it requires people to reenact their traumas as a means of making peace with it. This inspires Shaina to gather a group of women in a loft where they play out her trauma for her. Finally, in the hopes of singing her dad one last song, Shaina goes on a journey to his grave. On the journey, she recollects her dad's love of acronyms, singing and "South Park," ultimately learning to live with his absence. (2019)
Cinequest San Jose Film Festival 2019: Winner, Visionary Leader Award
Completely distraught after the sudden loss of her dad, filmmaker Shaina Feinberg will do anything she can to connect to him again. She catalogues her dad's belongings—a calculator, a clock, a basket of lozenges. She forces her friends to wear his clothes and mimic his gestures. She takes a stab at making a webseries he'd always wanted to make—the name of which is "Senior Escort Service." And she combs through his journal, where she finds out about a process of dealing with grief that was invented by the grandchildren of Nazis. The process is called Familienaufstellung, which means Family Constellation, and it requires people to reenact their traumas as a means of making peace with it. This inspires Shaina to gather a group of women in a loft where they play out her trauma for her. Finally, in the hopes of singing her dad one last song, Shaina goes on a journey to his grave. On the journey, she recollects her dad's love of acronyms, singing and "South Park," ultimately learning to live with his absence. (2019)
Cinequest San Jose Film Festival 2019: Winner, Visionary Leader Award
THE BABYMOONERS — Shaina Feinberg
Faculty, MFA in Film (cowriter-codirector)
Two weeks before the birth of her first child, New Yorker Shaina Feinberg recounts her reluctant journey to motherhood in a video letter to her son. Clearly influenced by old Woody Allen films, her letter becomes a series of vignettes that include her newly sober husband, her goofy Upper West Side parents, an adorable Shih-tzu, a neurotic shrink, and her own views on daytime television. (2016)
Two weeks before the birth of her first child, New Yorker Shaina Feinberg recounts her reluctant journey to motherhood in a video letter to her son. Clearly influenced by old Woody Allen films, her letter becomes a series of vignettes that include her newly sober husband, her goofy Upper West Side parents, an adorable Shih-tzu, a neurotic shrink, and her own views on daytime television. (2016)