Actress Jennifer Esposito makes her filmmaking debut, as writer and director of Fresh Kills, a “gritty mob drama with a feminist twist” world premiering in the Spotlight Narrative Section at the 2023 Tribeca Festival.

Jennifer Esposito also stars in the film along with Emily Bader, Odessa A’zion, , Domenick Lombardozzi, Annabella Sciorra, and Nicholas Cirillo.

In the film, the daughters of the Larusso family struggle to break the unspoken code of the women behind the men in the mob world of Staten Island in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Unlike any mob movie you’ve ever seen before, Fresh Kills reveals the women behind the men. The stories never told. Violence, fear, and unspoken rules dictate who they are and who they are allowed to become.

From Tribeca: “The women of the Larusso crime family are no strangers to adapting to tough circumstances. In the wake of their world being unexpectedly uprooted, these women learn to fend for themselves in New York City during the late 20th century, even with the cards stacked against them. Led by their unsteady but loving mother Francine (Jennifer Esposito), two very different sisters — destructive Connie (Odessa A’zion) and dutiful Rose (Emily Bader) — are the next generation of women who must grow up in this turbulent world controlled by unspoken rules that dictate who they are and who they become.”

Watch the first clip from Fresh Kills.