Leah Land

Wonderfluff Sandwiches was recently reviewed in Ion Magazine as part of the “Best in Breed” compilation.

Leah Meyerhoff is interviewed in this month’s issue of RWUL Magazine
Women in Film Series: Interview with Filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff
Richmond Worldwide Underground Link
July 2008

PacMouse and Neurotica are screening in the CineKink festival tour
July 10-12 2008
Yerba Buena Art Center
San Francisco, CA

Eternal Flame is screening at NewFest 2008
1:00pm Sunday June 6 2008
Play Loud Program
AMC 9
Loews 34th st Theater
34th st & 8th Ave
New York, NY

More screening info coming soon…

Twitch is a finalist in the Trigger Street Film Festival

SEASON 3 FESTIVAL 3 TOP TEN ANNOUNCED - ACADEMY VOTING BEGINS!

Unicorns is mentioned in Filmmaker Magazine

The Film Panel Notetaker has an interview up with filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff, who is bringing a retrospective of her short films to the Boston Underground Film Festival this weekend. She is also beginning work on her first feature, Unicorns, which she hopes to begin shooting this summer. Here’s Meyerhoff answering […]

Leah is interviewed by the Film Panel Notetaker about Unicorns, filmmaking, and her upcoming retrospective at the Boston Underground Film Festival.

On Saturday, Brooklyn, NY-based filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff will be heading to Beantown to present a retrospective of her short films at the Brattle Theatre during the Boston Underground Film Festival. I had the great pleasure […]

Leah is featured in this month’s Fader Magazine

Leah is interviewed for the Austin Film Society’s Persistence of Vision journal.

One of those filmmakers, Leah Meyerhoff, whose film Team Queen has screened in countless festivals around the globe, decided to go with online distribution from b-side because “the audience was more important to me than the money. B-Side actively pushes for its artists to […]

Team Queen is reviewed in The Feminist Review

Remember Van Halen’s 1984 video for their adolescent anthem “Hot for Teacher?” Well, Team Queen is its queer, feminist doppelganger. Okay, that’s giving David Lee Roth too much credit because the post-punk, emo, Brooklyn-based Triple Creme are way cooler than Diamond Dave could ever hope to be, even […]

Twitch is reviewed in The Feminist Review

At its core, Twitch makes far more subtle points about shedding norms and other’s expectations, by portraying a pivotal moment in one young woman’s transition into adulthood and coming into self in an unsentimental, non-deterministic fashion. In doing so, the work offers an alternative conclusion to the main characters […]

Team Queen is reviewed in Bad Lit

This extremely well-done music video for the band Triple Creme has been playing the underground film circuit all year long. Seriously, run a search on “Meyerhoff” on Bad Lit and you get a ton of entries, so I was extremely happy to finally see a nice, high-quality version of […]

Leah was interviewed again by OurStage at the Holly Shorts Film Festival
OurStage at Holly Shorts
an interview with Leah Meyerhoff
by Alyssa J Hale

watch the full video here
OurStage also interviewed Leah at the Gen Art Film Festival a few months back. Watch that video here

Leah is interviewed in Short End Magazine

For Meyerhoff, reaching millions has very little to do with personal recognition but rather entirely to do with her desire to affect social change. Before a screening of her Student Academy-Award finalist short Twitch at the HollyShorts Film Festival, Meyerhoff says repeatedly in talking about her work the importance […]

Leah is interviewed by Velvet Park Magazine

NewFest Women’s Part 1 - Leah Meyerhoff
May 22 2007
interview by Grace Moon
Leah Meyerhoff is interviewed by Grace Moon about the Team Queen screening at NewFest

Watch the full interview here

Leah will be on “Closet Free Radio” on KZSC tonight at 7:30pm PST
“Closet Free Radio”
KZSC
88.1 FM
7:30pm PST

Closet Free Radio is the longest running radio show in this country featuring Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender programming.
Leah will be promoting the upcoming Team Queen screening at the Santa Cruz Film Festival
Tune in at 88.1 FM or listen […]

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 […]

The Team Queen music video release party is previewed in Flavorpill

Post-punk lez rockers Triple Creme enlisted the brightest and most buoyant of New York’s burlesque scene to star in the new music video for their single “Team Queen.” Relentless schtick-slinger Murray Hill hosts the single’s launch party, featuring a live performance by Triple Creme and […]

The Team Queen music video release party is a featured event in Eros Zine

Filmmaker and nightlife entrepreneur Leah Meyerhoff is the director of the titillating Team Queen music video, featuring music by the queer- post-punk phenomenon Triple Creme.
Ms. Meyerhoff is throwing a Brooklyn bash to celebrate the music video’s premiere. The star-studded main stage lineup […]

Leah is interviewed by the Contra Costa Times about the Twitch screening at the San Francisco Indie Film Festival
“Filmmaker’s Project Gets Personal”
February 5 2006

When the story is as good as filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff’s, you can’t help but be drawn in.

- Jennifer Modenessi
Contra Costa Times
read the full article here

Twitch is reviewed by Film Threat
December 22 2005

“Twitch” is a story about fear, love and an uncertain future … Writer/director Leah Meyerhoff has secured her place in film with this short movie … She’s done a story that is as honest as it is touching, and there is nothing sickly sweet about it. Her ability […]

Leah Meyerhoff is written up in the New York Times
“For Would-Be Scorseses The Streets Are Truly Mean”
September 10 2004

Leah is an artsy American who wants to make a movie based on her own angry, cold relationship with her disabled mother.
- Virginia Heffernan
New York Times
read the full article here

Leah is mentioned in the Hollywood Reporter for her participation in the Film School series on IFC
“Film School”
September 9 2004

There’s Leah Meyerhoff, 24, an eccentric from Oakland, Calif., whose film will help her face down demons collected from a childhood spent taking care of her wheelchair-bound mother with MS.
- Ray Richmond
Hollywood Reporter
read the full article […]

Leah Meyerhoff is interviewed by the Boston Globe about her participation in the Film School series on IFC
“IFC Reality Show Focuses on Stressed Out Student Filmmakers”
September 8 2004

Meyerhoff’s film, “Twitch,” is a coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who’s resentful about taking care of her mother, who has multiple sclerosis.Their complex, fractured relationship is based […]

Leah is mentioned in the San Francisco Chronicle for her participation in the Film School series on IFC
“Industry Buzz”
August 8 2004

Tisch alumni Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese and “Monster’s Ball” director Marc Forster make cameo appearances, but the real stars are unknowns like 24-year-old Bay Area native Leah Meyerhoff, who tries to make her […]

Leah Meyerhoff’s video installation Packaged Goods is reveiwed in today’s New York Times
Art In Review: Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys on the Life of the People
by Holland Cotter
June 25 2004

The area under the Manhattan Bridge overpass is being condominium-ized, and art spaces are on the move. Smack Mellon will soon leave its fragrant […]