Superior

Directed By Erin Vassilopoulos

On the run, Marian returns to her hometown to hide out with her identical twin sister, Vivian, altering the trajectory of both their lives.

  • ABOUT
  • BIO
When Marian is on the run, she goes to the only place she knows is safe: her childhood home. She is greeted by her estranged sister, Vivian, a stay-at-home housewife struggling to conceive and on the verge of a failing marriage. Though the two are identical twins, they live opposite lives. Marian’s mysterious return disrupts Vivian’s small-town routine, and the sisters must learn to reconnect and reconcile. When Marian's haunting past finally catches up to her, their separate worlds collide, catapulting both sisters into grave danger.
Erin Vassilopoulos is a writer, director and editor based in New York. Her directorial feature debut, SUPERIOR, which she co-wrote and co-edited, was selected to the 2020 IFP Narrative Lab and 2020 U.S. in Progress Lab and had its World Premiere in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Her short films have screened at Sundance, the Berlinale, BFI London Film Festival, and Tribeca, and have been featured at Vimeo Staff Picks and ARTE TV. She is currently developing her next feature film, WHAT WE ALL WANT, a mystery/psychological drama about characters whose lives intersect in a dying mall, as well as gearing up to direct a new short film in fall 2021.