Director's Vision

Geno Marx is an award-winning writer and director who discovered his passion for storytelling after winning the Young Author’s Contest as a child. That early recognition sparked a lifelong devotion to narrative — the search for meaning within chaos, and light within darkness.

After moving to Los Angeles, he honed his craft as a writer and editor, developing a keen sense for structure and rhythm. His life — and art — changed profoundly with the premature birth of his children. The experience reshaped his perspective, deepening his empathy and inspiring him to tell stories that explore the pain and beauty of survival: the struggles of dysfunctional families, fractured relationships, and resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.

As a biracial Asian-American filmmaker, Geno’s worldview was shaped by being raised in part by his Indian immigrant grandparents and witnessing his mother’s struggles as a first-generation Indian woman in America. Their resilience — balancing tradition, identity, and survival in a culture that often rendered them invisible — instilled in him a deep empathy for those caught between worlds. Growing up in Chicago and spending most of his life in the American Southwest, he saw both the beauty and the brutality of the American dream. Those experiences taught him how hope can be manipulated by power, and how faith and fear often coexist in the pursuit of belonging.

He is the co-creator of the groundbreaking, award-winning TV pilot DON’T LOOK NOW. His debut feature, BABYBACKS, was born from his fascination with the illusion of safety — how hope can become entrapment, and how the promise of refuge can conceal something monstrous. At its core, the film serves as a metaphor for the immigrant experience in America: a nation that invites, seduces, and too often devours those who seek it out of desperation and faith.

Stylistically, BABYBACKS draws from the psychological dread of Get Out, the claustrophobic tension of Misery, and the raw physical unease of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It grounds its horror in quiet humanity — the slow erosion of trust before chaos exposes truth. Ultimately, BABYBACKS is not only a story of survival, but a meditation on exploitation, displacement, and endurance. At its heart is a young woman’s desperate fight to protect her unborn child — a fragile embodiment of hope — in a world that has stripped away every illusion of safety. Her will to survive becomes both defiance and deliverance, proof that even in humanity’s darkest corners, love endures.