Alyssa Cobb
Directing
Biography
Alyssa Cobb is a writer and director based in Oklahoma. Her debut film, Still Her Baby, follows a transgender woman who returns to her conservative hometown to bury the father who never accepted her, only to find her grieving mother reaching for the daughter she once refused to see. Drawn to stories set in the quiet middle of America, where faith, family, and identity collide without easy resolution, Cobb writes characters who are neither villains nor saints, only people trying to find each other across the distance they've created.
Known For
When Ava Reyes, a trans woman, receives a 2 a.m. voicemail from the mother she hasn't spoken to in two years, the news is simple: her father is gone. Ava drives back to the Oklahoma home she left behind and steps into the role of the daughter her mother doesn't yet fully know how to claim. Together they move through the necessary rituals of loss — the funeral home, the flower shop, the photographs, the suit that still smells like him — and somewhere inside all of it, a different conversation begins. Not easy. Not resolved. But real.
Still Her Baby
A documentary filmmaker with a twenty-year obsession convinces his crew to spend the night inside an abandoned psychiatric institution where a patient whose body was never confirmed vanished in a fire that left no survivors. Armed with cameras and a key provided by the clinic's administrator, Craig Schofield believes he is finally documenting the story he has spent his life chasing. What he doesn't know is that the key doesn't open doors. It locks them inside.