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Logline

After losing her academic career to scandal, Rowena Sullust—a brilliant mycologist and breast cancer survivor haunted by fears of recurrence—finds herself entangled in a dangerous love triangle with her self-destructive ex and an ambitious biotech mogul, where the boundaries between obsession, science, and survival blur beyond recognition.

Synopsis

“Snare” is a grounded, queer sci-fi love story that blends body horror, psychological drama, and magical realism. At its core, the film explores what it means to sever love, and whether memory, desire, and grief can ever truly be erased.

The story follows Rowena “Ro” Sullust, a brilliant but volatile mycologist whose research into fungal networks promises to revolutionize medicine. Ro’s world collides with that of Jackie “Jax” Mist, her charismatic but self-destructive ex, who refuses to release their shared history. What begins as a portrait of toxic intimacy quickly spirals into the surreal when Jax collaborates with an eccentric entrepreneur to create a fungal-based pill designed to chemically sever romantic attachments.

As Ro becomes entangled in the trial of this experimental drug, the lines between healing and harm blur. Memories morph into hallucinations, bodies become laboratories of obsession, and the couple’s love curdles into a dangerous cycle of dependence and self-erasure. Meanwhile, Greta, Ro’s pragmatic lab partner, and Hunter Poole, a manipulative biotech opportunist, push the story into a wider battle between scientific discovery, corporate exploitation, and the fragile vulnerability of the human heart. It fuses tactile fungal imagery with intimate, emotional storytelling, transforming Ro and Jax’s relationship into a visceral meditation on love, addiction, and autonomy.

Ultimately, “Snare” is both a cautionary tale and a love story turned inside out—a portrait of two people who can neither hold onto nor let go of each other, and the haunting consequences of trying to excise memory itself.
 

Meet the Filmmakers

Production Company
Formerly production and development executives at Mark Canton’s AtmosphereMM (300, Den of Thieves) and Cinelou Films (Cake, Nightmare Cinema), A Group of Ferrets was founded in 2023 by David Hopwood (Power), Corey Moosa (the Independent Spirit Award-winning producer of Margin Call, & All Is Lost), and Michael K. Dwyer (Hanky Panky), A GROUP OF FERRETS is a film and television production company with projects focusing in the genre space.

Corey Moosa — Producer
Corey Moosa is an Independent Spirit Award-winning producer known for Margin Call, as well as All Is Lost (Oscar nominee, Golden Globe winner). He has also produced the films Breakup At A Wedding, Banshee Chapter, Never Here, Beauty Mark, and Aardvark. Moosa produced and starred in the documentary series The Chair for Starz. In 2019, he produced the indie darling Changeland, written and directed by Seth Green. He most recently executive-produced the critically acclaimed film Hanky Panky. Corey holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Sonja O’Hara — Co-Director
Sonja O’Hara is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, and actor named a “Filmmaker to Watch” by Independent Magazine (past recipients include Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins). Her debut feature, Root Letter (TUBI), starring Danny Ramirez, was announced on Variety here. She is set to direct Harvey Keitel and Rita Moreno in the upcoming psychological thriller Theirs. O’Hara created the Emmy-nominated Shudder series Doomsday, praised by IndieWire as “part Midsommar, part Yellowjackets.” A Film Independent Fellow and Tribeca Film Festival alum, Sonja has served as an SXSW panelist and is a 2026 filmmaker mentor. O’Hara is represented by Verve and Gotham Group.

Adam Hoelzel — Co-Director
Adam Hoelzel – Adam Hoelzel has developed projects for Bad Robot, Atlas Entertainment, and Warner Bros. Upon signing with UTA and Range Media, he sold his first spec, Beast of Burden, which was shot in Savannah, Georgia, and starred Daniel Radcliffe and Grace Gummer. Adam just wrapped his directorial debut Tender, which stars David Koechner (Anchorman), Jess Weixler (The Good Wife), and Jesse Garcia of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Odyssey, and is represented for sales by UTA. You can watch the trailer here. His short SUBJECT 19 was featured on Gunpowder & Sky’s sci-fi channel, DUST, and he will be directing the feature adaptation with XYZ Films, starring Don Johnson.

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