Boundary Pushing Erotic Thriller BIGHT Set for Valentine's Day Release from Scatena & Rosner Films

Los Angeles, CA / Scatena & Rosner (S&R Films) is proud to announce the North American release of the erotic thriller Bight from debut writer-director Maiara Walsh. Bight stars Walsh (Good Trouble, Desperate Housewives) alongside Cameron Cowperthwaite (Fallout, Dahmer), Mark Hapka (23 Blast, Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial) and Maya Stojan (Castle, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). S&R Films has scheduled the film to release February 10, 2026, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

“Bight examines how love, control, and pushing boundaries can unravel the fabric of relationships, exploring complex emotions through a sensual and unsettling lens”, said Walsh. “I like making films that ask its audience to sit in the discomfort and examine their own moral compass. Securing distribution feels like a victory for indie filmmaking that doesn’t play it safe.”

“We’re drawn to stories that push boundaries, and Bight does exactly that”, said Jordan Rosner, Co-Founder of Scatena & Rosner Films. “It’s a fearless exploration of intimacy, control, and the blurred lines between art and obsession. We’re excited to share this bold vision with audiences who crave thought-provoking storytelling.”

Written by Walsh and Cameron Cowperthwaite, Bight follows Atticus, a man who has lost his way after abandoning his dreams of becoming an artist and his wife Charlie, a woman struggling to regain her sense of self and security following a miscarriage. One night, Atticus and Charlie visit close friends Sebastian, a successful avant-garde erotic photographer and his wife Naomi, a seductress painter with a dark secret, to celebrate Sebastian’s latest art exhibition, an immersive dive into the intricate and sensual world of Shibari. Throughout the evening, their turbulent lives will push them to succumb to dark temptations and provocative explorations of an open relationship, all leading toward a devastating fallout.

“I’m so proud to be teamed up with such an incredible team at S&R”, said Cowperthwaite. “This is a very bold indie film, that tackles explicit material, and really dares the viewer to come along on for the ride. It’s a potent, thrilling, captivating, and at times challenging watch, and Gato, Jordan, and Zach have created the perfect path for a movie like ours to find an audience that we feel will absolutely love every minute of it.”

                     

Bight is produced by Mark Hapka under his White Room banner, alongside Cameron Cowperthwaite’s 80 Proof Pictures, Maiara Walsh’s Inspired Ink Productions, Stephen Moffat, and Yori X. The film was executive produced by Emilio Nunez.

“Bight was born out of instinct”, said Hapka. “In a time when stories move faster than people can feel them, we needed to make something honest, uncomfortable, and alive. We explore how the darker, more fragile sides of desire and trust fracture under pressure through the kind of patient, character-driven storytelling that rarely gets made anymore. Everyone who touched this film poured something real into it, and seeing it find its way into the world with S&R feels like proof that independent filmmaking still has the power to cut through the noise.”

Walsh is represented by Established Artists; Cowperthwaite by SDB Partners, Link Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; and Stojan by Defining Artists Agency and Link Entertainment.

ABOUT S&R FILMS

Scatena & Rosner Films is a film production, finance, sales/distribution, and product placement firm headed by Jordan Rosner and Gato Scatena. Its current AFM new-release lineup includes the Jonathan Rhys Meyers sci-fi starrer, “The Paralytic,” the Angus Macfadyen /Jamie King thriller, “The Weight of Darkness,” and the historical war film, “Jerusalem ’67.”