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Daisy Friedman
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Daisy Friedman is a writer and director based in New York City. Her history as a multi-organ transplant recipient has drawn her to create work that centers on the intersections of tradition, intimacy, embodiment, and disability. Her short film, Unholy (2024), had its world premiere at Sundance 2025 and went on to screen at South by Southwest 2025. The film received an Audience Award at the 2025 National Film Festival for Talented Youth. Her previous short film, As You Are (2023), has screened at prestigious film festivals such as Frameline, Inside Out, Outfest, The Chicago International Film Festival, and The National Film Festival For Talented Youth. The film received numerous awards, incl…
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3.0Noa attends her family’s Passover Seder for the first time since being put on a feeding tube for a gastrointestinal disorder. There, she is confronted with pushy family members, malfunctioning medical devices, and a room of food she can’t eat.
Unholy
2025
7.0When an interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, they must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.
As You Are
2023
NROn a fire escape during a Passover seder, longtime family friends Talia and Ella realize their feelings for each other. It Isn’t Easy asks what it means to be Jewish and in love, even when family disapproves.
It Isn't Easy
2023
After a casual hookup sends her to the ER, a transplant recipient confronts the cost of claiming sexual agency in a body the world treats as breakable.
How to Be a Slut Without Dying
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Behind the camera
3.0Noa attends her family’s Passover Seder for the first time since being put on a feeding tube for a gastrointestinal disorder. There, she is confronted with pushy family members, malfunctioning medical devices, and a room of food she can’t eat.
Unholy
2025
3.0Noa attends her family’s Passover Seder for the first time since being put on a feeding tube for a gastrointestinal disorder. There, she is confronted with pushy family members, malfunctioning medical devices, and a room of food she can’t eat.
Unholy
2025
7.0When an interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, they must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.
As You Are
2023
7.0When an interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, they must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.
As You Are
2023
7.0When an interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, they must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.
As You Are
2023
NROn a fire escape during a Passover seder, longtime family friends Talia and Ella realize their feelings for each other. It Isn’t Easy asks what it means to be Jewish and in love, even when family disapproves.
It Isn't Easy
2023
NROn a fire escape during a Passover seder, longtime family friends Talia and Ella realize their feelings for each other. It Isn’t Easy asks what it means to be Jewish and in love, even when family disapproves.
It Isn't Easy
2023
After a casual hookup sends her to the ER, a transplant recipient confronts the cost of claiming sexual agency in a body the world treats as breakable.
How to Be a Slut Without Dying
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After a casual hookup sends her to the ER, a transplant recipient confronts the cost of claiming sexual agency in a body the world treats as breakable.
How to Be a Slut Without Dying
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