Meera’s with our daughter, Lakshmi, and she’s like, ‘The canyon’s on fire,’ and the cognitive disconnect there. I looked at it and it was just, oh no, we have to leave now.

Just hours before the Eaton Fire barreled through Altadena earlier this month, filmmaker Meera Menon and her husband, Paul Gleason, were in Eaton Canyon playing with their 3-year-old.

Three weeks before the Sundance Midnight Madness premiere of her zombie dramedy Didn’t Die, director Meera Menon (whose credits appositely include episodes of The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking ...

Menon: It speaks how we’re kind of, you know, exploring so many different tones. I think my movie is primarily about grief, and I don’t think grief has one tone.