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  MARCH ISSUE

Leah MeyerhoffHi . . .

So it has been yet another busy month in Leah Land. I interviewed half a dozen casting directors for Unicorns and am finally ready to get the audition process rolling. Casting is one of my favorite parts of filmmaking and I can't wait to get started! Meanwhile, I have begun working with a new lawyer named Victoria Cook (who reps fellow NYU grads Jim Jarmusch and Nicole Kassell) and is completely incredible. I am also working as a consultant for OurStage and will be heading to Austin for SXSW next week. Aside from all the films, I am really looking forward to seeing my new favorite kid band Care Bears on Fire. In other news,
I rematriculated at NYU, voted for Hope, and watched the utterly-predictable yet somehow-still-entertaining Oscars. But I think my favorite part of last month was the total lunar eclipse (of the heart). Until next time...
xoxo,
Leah

SXSW


SXSWI keep saying it is time to jump off the film festival bandwagon and then I keep climbing right back on again. So it looks like I will be heading out to SXSW next week for a couple of days.
  • A film I worked on briefly called Bi The Way (directed by Brittany Blockman and Josephine Decker) will be premiering March 8th. Check it out if you can.
  • Several of my other friends' films are premiering as well, including: Beautiful Losers (Joshua Leonard), Stop-Loss (Kimberly Peirce), Baghead (the Duplass Brothers), Goliath (the Zellner Brothers), My Effortless Brilliance (Lynn Shelton), Nights and Weekends (Joe Swanberg), Intimidad (Ashley Sabin) We are Wizards (Josh Koury) and Woodpecker (Alex Karpovsky).
  • A couple of friends also have shorts in the festival: The Execution of Solomon Harris (Wyatt Garfield), Glory at Sea (Ben Zeitlin), 34x25x36 (Jesse Epstein) and Let's Get Down to Brass Tacks (Aaron Katz). Finally, I am excited to see Crossbow and Spider again, two of my favorite shorts from Sundance this year, as well as the features Choke and The Order of Myths, which I missed in Park City but have heard great things about.
  • I will also be consulting for OurStage again, shooting a promotional short with Matthew Lessner and helping promote my friend Arin's new festival From Here to Awesome.
  • If you or anyone you know will be out in Austin that week, please drop me a line. There is always time for rock shows in between all of the screenings!

Boston Underground


Boston Underground logo The Boston Underground Film Festival is doing a retrospective of my work later this month. So come out and see those shorts you've missed over the years and learn about how I got to where I am today!
  • Saurday March 22 2008 2:00pm
    A Day in Leah Land
    Boston Underground Film Festival
    The Brattle Theater
    40 Brattle Street
    Cambridge, MA
  • Leah Meyerhoff is an award winning filmmaker who has had great success on the film festival circuit. This retrospective of her work will hopefully enlighten aspiring filmmakers as to a possible path they might take in their own careers. The program will include the following films followed by a brief Q&A:

    Pelvis (2 min)
    Asphyxiate (2 min)
    An Institutional Look (5 min)
    Pacmouse (2 min)
    Wonderfluff Sandwiches (10 min)
    Neurotica (4 min)
    Waxing Nostalgic (10 min)
    Packaged Goods (3 min)
    Twitch (10 min)
    Team Queen (4 min)
    The Heist (2 min)
    Eternal Flame (4 min)
    Plastic Trees (4 min)
    Unicorns teaser (3 min)

  • This event is free and open to the public. I hope to see you there!

Eternal Flame


BackseatWelcome to a world where mermaids dance with octopi, fire breathers rule the night, and the Statue of Liberty knows how to sing. Girls are buried up to their necks in sand while boys do back flips and dazzle dancers perform a puppet show without strings. A circus-themed burlesque music video for Joan as Police Woman, Eternal Flame is the ultimate fire hazard.

Twitch


IFFC logoA Student Academy Award finalist, Twitch portrays a young girl's irrational fear that her mother's illness is contagious. Twitch has screened in over 200 film festivals and won a dozen international awards. Currently airing on IFC,Twitch continues to travel the festival circuit:

  • Now Film Festival
    May 10 2008
    Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences
    Linwood Dunn Theatre
    1313 N. Vine Street.
    Hollywood, CA

Team Queen


Church of Girl logoTeam Queen is a gender-bending, fire-breathing, tassel-twirling music video for queer post-punk rockers "Triple Creme" starring the best of burlesque. Currently airing on LOGO and coming soon to a festival near you:

Other Fun Stuff


Cinekink
  • Team Queen screeed at the opening night gala of Cinekink last week. Two of my older films Pacmouse and Neurotica played at the festival as well. Check out photos from the opening night here.
  • I also just did an interview for a film school guidebook written by Derek Horne of Chapman University.

OurStage logo
  • I have recently started consulting for a company called OurStage. They are a fantastic resource for independent filmmakers looking for distribution. Find out more about how to submit your shorts and what they can do for you here.

Evil City talk

  • Also check out a video posted by From Here to Awesome including segments of a panel we were on together at the Evil City Film Fest a few months back. Click here for some useful tips about social networking and online distribution.

  • And as always, to find out more about what I've been up to, check out my blog!

Thanks for reading Leah Land!

See you next month!

"Writer/Director Leah Meyerhoff has secured her place in film."
- Film Threat

 
 
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