HER OTHER
Veronica Siva, Born Hungry
Language: English
Based On: Original Screenplay
Project Type: Feature Film (Scripted)
Genre: Horror
Stage of Development: Script
Estimated Length (minutes): 90mins
Director: Sandra Sciberras
Director Bio:
Sandra Sciberras is one of the top female Australian writers & directors.
She has recently directed, Capture’s Seven Snipers (starring Tim Roth, Radha Mitchell, Ryan Kwanten, Ioan Gruffudd)
https://capture-ent.com/international/titles/seven-snipers
She wrote, directed, and co-produced of the sci-fi action film The Dustwalker distributed by Umbrella Australia and Hulu in North America (starring Jolene Anderson, Stef Dawson)
Previously, she wrote and directed the multi-award-winning drama The Caterpillar Wish working with world-renowned director of photography Grieg Fraser (Dune, The Batman, The Mandalorian) and editor Jason Ballantine (The Flash, The King’s Man, It) and winning best supporting actress at the ACCTA awards for Susie Porter amongst a list of other awards.
She wrote/co-directed the romance feature Surviving Georgia. (starring Toby Wallace, Pia Miranda and Holly Valance). She was the head of the renowned VCA film school which produced some of the most successful in Australian filmmakers.
https://sandrasciberras.com
Total Budget: $3950000
Percent Confirmed: $48
Currency: CAD
List names of confirmed partners: Screen Australia Producer Offset, State Funding
What is this project seeking? Financing, Distribution, Sales Agent, Co-production Partner
Logline: After years inside you - it is her turn. Cora came home to bury the past. The past had other plans.
Synopsis:
A Psychological Horror Feature
When her father slips into dementia, a woman returns home to Florida — only to discover a twin sister she never knew existed is fighting to take her place.
Cora Moss, a baker and martial artist by day, secretive artist by night, has spent her life haunted by things she can't explain: phantom deer, a reflection that moves half a second too late, blue ink that bleeds from her own skin. When her father Lee begins losing his memory, Cora comes home — and her visions escalate into something undeniable. In the mangroves surrounding her family's town, she meets Ivy: her mirror image, marked by heterochromatic eyes, patient, deliberate, and very real.
The truth, when it surfaces, is devastating: Ivy is the twin Cora's mother lost in the womb — a life that never fully ended, waiting for the one barrier keeping the sisters apart to fail. As Lee's mind fades, so does the wall between them. And Ivy has waited long enough.
HER OTHER delivers atmospheric, body-horror-driven dread grounded in real biology (vanishing twin syndrome) and universal family fracture — grief, inheritance, dementia, sibling resentment — giving the horror a devastating emotional throughline beyond scares alone. Think Hereditary meets The Babadook: a family unraveling from the inside, told through a genuinely original mythology.
Character-driven, contained locations, a small principal cast, and a twist ending built for word-of-mouth. A festival-ready elevated horror title with strong female lead and clear franchise/IP potential.
Contact Information: veronica@bornhungry.com.au
