Leah Land

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Leah is giving a guest lecture at Pratt University
April 20 2009
Pratt Institute of Art
Room G12
Dekalb & St. James Pl.
Brooklyn NY

Mermaids and Dragons and Unicorns oh my!

Some photos from the Team Queen screening at the IFC Center as part of the NewFest Local Shorts Showcase:

Tony Wei (THE BEST MEN), Leah Meyerhoff (TEAM QUEEN), Laura Terruso (LESBIANS), Adam Baran (JINX), Casper Andreas (MORMOR’S VISIT), Felix Endara (BRO CRUSH)

Team Queen is screening at the Inside Out Toronto Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
“Backalley Jukebox” program
9:30pm May 19 2007
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada

Backalley Jukebox 2
We’re back and we still like it when you watch. Backalley Jukebox 2 again brings you all the bent goods via a brand new audiovisual glory hole explosion. So dive in headfirst […]

Team Queen is screening at the End of the Pier International Film Festival
8:00pm Saturday April 28 2007
The Hotham Arts Centre
Bognor Regis
West Sussex, United Kingdom

the complete program will be announced soon

Team Queen is screening at the Santa Cruz Film Festival
3:00pm Saturday April 21 2007
The Riverfront Theater
Santa Cruz, CA
screening with “Dos Patrias”

Dos Patrias Christian Liffers 01:22:00 Germany/Cuba
N. CALIFORNIAN PREMIERE
Director Christian Liffers travels to Cuba to seek reflections on the poems and prose of Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas, writings that describe the desire for love, sexual freedom […]

Team Queen screens at the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Monday March 5 2007
Barbes
376 9th St (at Sixth Ave)
Park Slope, NY

All Shorts Program
Bobby Bird: The Devil in Denim
directed by Carson Mell
K-7
directed by Christopher Leone
Team Queen
directed by Leah Meyerhoff
Patterns
directed by Jamie Travis
By Modern Measure
directed by Matthew Lessner
The Tourist
directed by James Israel & Jeff Israel
Mott Music
directed by Jarred Alterman

Team Queen is screening at the Velvet Park Launch Party
8:00pm Saturday March 3 2007
Williamsburg White Room
235 Roebling St. @ South 3rd
Brooklyn, NY

hosted by Murray Hill
with the Gotham Girls Roller Derby League

Leah is interviewed in the Indy Movies section of Raven Entertainment

HB: Why did you want to become a director?
LM: I was at art school when I realized that showing in galleries was
similar to preaching to the converted.
I decided to switch to filmmaking as a way to reach a wider audience
and potentially have a greater impact […]

Leah is giving a lecture about how to navigate the film festival circuit at Brooklyn College
“Surviving the Festival”
1:45pm Thursday December 7th
West End Building room 214
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY

Team Queen screens at the Out Takes Dallas Film Festival
November 1 2006
Dallas, TX

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Team Queen screens at Cinejam
September 27 2006
Landmark Century Theater
2828 North Clark
Chicago, IL

Fancy Lori Grossman - 4:00
A hurried morning routine leads to an embarrassing
visit to the doctor.
Transit Kerry Weldon – 4:00
On a downtown train, an exchange of glances promises
everything and nothing.
Fourteen Nicole Barnett - 6:00
A young girl prepares for a momentous occasion.
Free Parking Laura Jean Cronin […]

Team Queen screens at the Great Lakes Film Festival
September 20-24 2006
Erie, PA

Team Queen screens at Frameline
The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
June 20 2006
San Francisco, CA

Team Queen is part of the Killing Rock Stars program.

Team Queen is nominated for “Best Music Video” at the Out Music Awards
June 10 2006
New York, NY

Team Queen screens at North by North East
June 9 2006
Toronto, Canada

Team Queen wins Second Place for “Best Music Video” at the Gaffers Film Festival
June 2006
Sacramento, CA

Leah is participating in the
Naked Eye Celebrity benefit
May 16 2006
Leslie/Lohman Gallery
26 Wooster Street

Mix NYC asked 150 celebrities & artists to shoot a disposable camera. Now they’re auctioning off these cameras-before they’re developed! You get the camera containing the unique mystery photos (and negatives!) from your favorite celebrity!

Participants include:
Gus Van Sant, Michael Musto, Laurie Anderson, John […]

The Team Queen release party photos are up!

Leah Meyerhoff (director of TEAM QUEEN)

Tigger (Performer), Miss Ruby Valentine (Performer)

Murray Hill (Host), Leah Meyerhoff (Director)

Molly the Dolly (Performer)

Triple Creme (Band)

Little Brooklyn (Performer)

Cherry Bomb (Performer)

Gigi La Femme (Performer), Scarlet Sinclair (Performer)

Creamy Stevens (Performer)

Bebe (Performer)

Leah Meyerhoff (Director), Karl Jacob (Performer)

Miss Ruby Valentine (Performer)
photos by Sarah Small, Last Night’s Party, […]

Leah Meyerhoff is interviewed in the current issue of New England Film

Award-winning director and New York University graduate student Leah Meyerhoff has built up a large list of accomplishments as a filmmaker, including a number of awards, and appearances at such festivals as the Cannes International Film Festival in France, Slamdance, and the Chicago International […]

Team Queen release party
May 10th 2006
Galapagos Art Space
70 N. 6th st.
Williamsburg NY

Hosted by Murray Hill
Performances by:
Triple Creme
Julie Atlas Muz
Tigger
Scarlet Sinclair
Little Brooklyn
Creamy Stevens
Miss Ruby Valentine
Molly the Dolly
Gigi La Femme
Kit Kitastrophe
Cherry Bomb
Balloonhedz
The Barbarians
The Gotham Girls Roller Derby
and much more!

The Film School DVD is now for sale at the IFC store

Directed by Nanette Burstein, Film School follows four NYU film students as they write, produce and direct their short films.
Leah raised the money for Twitch by participating in this show.

Check out Leah’s filmmaker profile on MySpace

Leah Meyerhoff’s video installation Packaged Goods is reviewed in New York Arts Magazine
“All’s Fair in Art and Politics”
by Christina Vassallo
September/October 2004

Blending activism and cultural dissent, the work in Death to the Fascist Insect lays bare the link between the personal and political spheres . . . An installation of three unsynchronized television screens playing a […]

Leah Meyerhoff’s video installation Packaged Goods will be on display at Gallery 800 as part of the “Death to the Fascist Insect” show.
Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys on the Life of the People
Gallery 800
70 Washington St.
Brooklyn, NY
June 26 2004

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