Entries from October 2006

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Twitch nominated at CA Indie Fest

Twitch is nominated for “Best Mini-Short” at the California Independent Film Festival
October 28 2006
Livermore Valley, CA

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Leah is a featured filmmaker

Leah Meyerhoff is a featured filmmaker on Pawky
October 19 2006

MEET THE FILMMAKER
10-19-2006
Leah Meyerhoff (leah)
Age: 26
Featured Short: Twitch
Involvement: writer/director
As a filmmaker, I admire…
John Cameron Mitchell, Kimberly Pierce, Lynne Ramsey, Cam Archer, Catherine Breillat, Jonathan Coauette, John Cassavetes, Gus Van Sant, Cindy Sherman, Marina Abramovic, Pipolotti Rist, my dad…
I strive to…
Make films that are brutally honest, emotionally […]

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Leah on Current TV

Leah Meyerhoff is interviewed for a segment on Current TV
Indestructible on Current Art
profile of Cristy Road
directed by Esther Bell
October 2006

Basking in the trenches of leftover teen-angst, punk rock, and brutal honesty, Cristy Road romanticizes the underdog like its nobody’s business. Cristy Road has been illustrating ideas, people, and places ever since she learned how to […]

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Team Queen at Portland Lesbian & Gay

Team Queen screens at the Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
6pm October 8 2006
Portland, OR

Screening with “El Caliento”

El Calentito
Directed by Chus Gutiérrez
Sunday, October 8 at 6:00 p.m.
Spain, 2005, 90 minutes, subtitled
With El Calentito’s declaration that “the fight is on the stage,” as exclaimed by one of the members of the all female punk band Las […]

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Team Queen at Coney Island

Team Queen screens at the Coney Island Film Festival
“Program 8″
8:00pm Saturday October 7 2006
Sideshows by the Seashore
3006 W. 12th st.
Brooklyn, NY

Program 8
Public Bath
Tak Hoon Kim, Flushing NY USA, Short 00:08:26
The Day of the Grackle
Michael Berry, Los Angeles CA USA, Short 00:14:50
Little Brooklyn
Jillian Buckley, New York NY USA, Documentary Short 00:08:00
Girlfriend in a Kimono
Dominic Thackray, London […]

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Team Queen at Ellensburg

Team Queen screens at the Ellensburg Film Festival
October 6-8 2006
Ellensburg, WA

TEAM QUEEN
Leah Meyerhoff (US, 2006, 4 min)
Music Video, LGBT
Plays with WHITE SHADOWS; Sunday, Oct 8, 3:45pm, Hal Holmes
Returning to Ellensburg with a gender-bending, fire-breathing and tassel-twirling music video is Leah Meyerhoff, the award-winning director of last year’s EFF success, Twitch. The new girl in school […]

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Team Queen wins at San Diego

Team Queen wins a “Judge’s Award” at the San Diego Women Film Fesitval
October 7 2006
San Diego, CA

Twitch is also screening at the San Diego Women Film Fesitval on October 8 2006

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Twitch wins at Berkeley

Twitch wins a “Grand Festival Award” at the Berkeley Film and Video Festival
October 7 2006
Berkeley, CA

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Leah wins Best Female Director

Leah Meyerhoff wins “Best Female Director” for Twitch at the West Chester Film Festival
October 6 2006
West Chester, PA