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With a few days between us and Trash Baby’s final festival screening, I can’t stop thinking about how lucky we are that this little indie got to live such a big life on the festival circuit.

After the script was named an Academy Nicholl semi-finalist, Trash Baby went on to celebrate its world premiere at SXSW, and from there built up a festival rap sheet that was bigger and badder than we ever could have dreamed.

After taking home an Industry Choice Award, Audience Choice Award, Best Actress Award, and four Best Narrative Feature wins, getting to finish our festival run in my hometown where it all began, with three back-to-back sold-out shows at the very theater where I first fell in love with cinema as a child… Felt poetically perfect. 

And as if that wasn’t enough, to walk away from our last festival with a fifth and final Best Narrative Feature win… I don’t know if I’ll ever have the words for that.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who made this experience what it was. Thank you to the cast and crew who rallied behind Trash Baby when it was still just a delusional dream, and to everyone who took a chance on a trailer park kid with no money or name that could easily have been written off as a bad bet.

Thank you to everyone who watched it, programmed it, championed it, bought a ticket, wrote a review, or cheered for us along the way. A supportive community is the only way indie films happen anymore, and we really fucking did that.

⭐️ SXSW
World Premiere
⭐️ Portland Panorama
Best Narrative Feature + Audience Choice
⭐️ Dances With Films
Industry Choice Award
⭐️ Indie Street Film Festival
Official Selection
⭐️ Local Sightings
Best Narrative Feature
⭐️ Carmel International Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature + Best Actress
⭐️ Portland Film Festival
Official Selection
⭐️ Twin Cities Film Fest
Official Selection
⭐️ Eastern Oregon Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature
⭐️ Phoenix Film Festival
Official Selection
⭐️ Ashland Independent Film Festival
Best Narrative Feature
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SURPRISE! TRASH BABY MERCH IS HERE.

With just two weeks to go until our grand finale, it feels right to celebrate the end of this chapter with something physical to hold onto.

ENTER: TRASH BABY x GOAT WITCH GOODS - a limited edition collab.

For those unfamiliar, Goat Witch Goods is another independent company run by a female creative whose work I’ve been obsessed with for a hot minute, and omggggg did they deliver.

TRASH BABY HOODIES + SWEATS ARE AVAILABLE NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON GOATWITCHGOODS.COM

WARNING: this is a presale. Ordering on the website will close next Friday (04/17) at midnight. After that, they’re gone forever.

To our cast, crew, and community who’s been riding with us, rooting for us, and cheering us on from the beginning - thank you for carrying this thing further than we ever could’ve dreamed.

The day I run into one of you wearing these bad boys in the wild will be the very best, make sure you come give me a hug when it happens.
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as @trashbabyfilm finishes it’s festival run in ashland at the end of this month, I figure I would drop some of my favorite photos I took as the bts/stills photographer

being on this film and observing it, I realized you can make an indie with sheer determination and grit and maybe a little insanity

@rykofilms made the impossible, possible

photos shot by me, all on film

to hanging out in a trashed lot, with no ac in the middle of summer

to having the coolest fucking car do donuts in a dirt lot

to naked ladies and chihuahuas and popsicles 

to getting beer spilled on me (truly an unforgettable day lol)

thank you @trashbabyfilm @rykofilms @karlee_boon @kbmichaluk and everyone else that worked on this film

love forever 💋🗑️👶🏻⛓️❤️‍🔥
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Well Ashland, the time has come.

This April, Trash Baby will celebrate the final stop of its festival run at the Ashland Independent Film Festival, in the town where it all began. It’s a bittersweet moment to announce the end of this chapter, as making this film has been one of the sweetest and scariest experiences of my life.

While I’m saddened to say goodbye, I’m also excited for what’s to come and to finally celebrate all that this ratchet little film has accomplished alongside the community that made it possible in the first place, as we watch Trash Baby on the big screen for the last time in the very seats where I fell in love with cinema as a child.

So! Throw on your JNCOs and the biggest bling your Claire’s collection can provide, to join me and the rest of the heathens for our final hurrah. We’ll be going out the same way we came in, with a trashy little Y2K bang and we’d love to see you there xx
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Saddies and baddies, rejoice.

Winter’s on its last cigarette - and with spring comes the return of festival season.

First stop of 2026: Phoenix, Arizona!

Proud to announce Trash Baby will be celebrating its Arizona premiere at the @phoenixfilmfestival in April as part of their highlighted series with the @thepopcornlist.

Buckle up, baby - we’re heading to the desert xx
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‘Dirt’ song and video are out now ❣️ 
Song produced, mixed, and engineered by Trevor Spencer @tre__michael 
Harmonica by Sam Peterson @donpianoworld

Video credits: 
Director & Producer - Karlee Boon (@karlee_boon )
Director, Art Director & Concept by Marlowe Ostara (@marloweostara)
Director of Photography & Colorist - Kevin Michaluk (@kbmichaluk)
1st Assistant Camera - Isaac O'Farrell (@isaacofarrell)
Camera Assistant - Brandon Jacob (@bkj.media)
Gaffer - Kevin Dyer (@kevin.dyer) and Jason Lee (@lucky_tungsten)
Key Grip - Dylan Jones (@djoneslighting) and Jason Lee (@lucky_tungsten)
Swing Grip - Michael Wayne (@shoshoni.mike)
Editor - Emma Josephson (@emmajosephson)
Studio & Gear Support - Framework (@pdxframework)
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HOLY HELL - THAT’S THE 2026 KICKOFF ENERGY I’M TALKING ABOUT.

Dumbfounded that this is real, but The Popcorn List just published their 25 films of 2025 and named TRASH BABY as one of their 12 Narrative Feature selects for this year’s lineup!

For those unfamiliar, The Popcorn List is an annual roundup of independent films curated by festival programmers across North America - spotlighting their favorite films that do not have distribution (yet 😉).

While I’d obviously love to not be on this list (lol), I’m absolutely honored. The validation as an indie filmmaker that @trashbabyfilm is resonating with festival audiences and programmers alike is second to none.

Thank you for the visibility @substack @thepopcornlist @indiewire and shout out to our cast and crew for quite frankly… pulling off a miracle with little more than some Four Loko and delusion.

SO CHEERS! 

To making art that matters, being de-lu-lu,  and shooting your shot in this weird thing we call life. Let’s make this the trend for 2026 - I’ll go first:

@netflix - u up?

💋💋💋
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