THE LAST BUTTERFLIES Review: Patrick Rea Helms A Brutal Snapshot Of Humanity At The World’s End
It was a few years ago that I first learned of actress Whitney Wegman-Wood. I’m pretty glad that I kept up with her this entire time, as often as I like to try and help spotlight up-and-comers in entertainment, and it helps that she’s a strong, competent and talented actress capable of carrying intense and complex characters and stories. Going on to make her case in Patrick Rea’s crowdfunded short, The Last Butterflies, the impact is as real as it is intentional, and all the more compelling. At the time, it was Wegman-Wood who stepped up and led the charge to campaign the project on Indiegogo. In her campaign video, she talks about the series of anxiety dreams she kept having around the end of 2019, and how it resulted in severe insomnia to the point where she up and decided one evening to turn her suffering into a creative […]