Struggling actor and filmmaker “Betsey Brown” is horrified when her older and more successful brother “Peter Vack” fabricates a trans identity in a disturbed attempt to stay relevant in the entertainment business. In a manic spiral of sibling rivalry, she decides to document her pregnancy and subsequent motherhood in a desperate attempt to be seen as an artist.

Betsey Brown is an actor and filmmaker born, raised, and based in Manhattan. She stars in The Scary of Sixty-First (2021, dir. Dasha Nekrasova) which won the GWFF Best First Feature Award at Berlinale. She also stars in Assholes (2017, dir. Peter Vack) which won the inaugural Adam Yauch Hornblower Award at SXSW. Her debut short film as a writer/director/actor, shegetsey betsey (2015) won the Audience Award for Best Experimental Short at the New Orleans Film Festival. Actors is her feature directorial debut.

A part-time actor who has played in films by Kim Hiorthøy, Gunhild Enger, Kasper Häggström and Yenni Lee. He is also a former editor of Filter Film and TV, has reviewed films for NATT&DAG and was for several years part of NFI's purchasing committee for Norwegian short and documentary films. Daniel currently works as a program assistant at Kunstnernes Hus Cinema.