For Eva Victor, the road to making Sorry, Baby began in a kind of pandemic-era “hell.”

It was 2020, and Victor was living in a small Brooklyn apartment with approximately one window and a troublemaking teenage cat. The 31-year-old filmmaker, who uses they/she pronouns, got a list of movie recommendations from a friend and began watching them in bed on their computer. In a period of lockdown isolation and depression, Victor says, it finally felt “like someone else was in the room with me, when a film was in the room with me.”