Leah Land

Twitch screens at the San Antonio Underground Film Festival

12:00pm Friday June 22 2007
Program 1
San Antonio College
San Antonio, TX

Full program schedule below:

Program I

Wamego Strikes Back (80 min)
Dir: Steve Balderson
Is both a documentary on the oft ignored world of indie film distribution and a pep talk to like minded filmmakers who feel strangled in the age of the bloated Hollywood monopoly, gazillion dollar budgets, shoddy distributors and even shoddier financiers. Not a traditional Making of… starts where most Making of’s end; with the selling and promotion of the movie; a crucial process in the production of a feature whose importance is rarely discussed.”

Meat (12 min)
Dir: Mark Vittek
Bill spends his days watching women from a distances and sometimes he lets his fantasy life get the better of him. Today, he’s going to wish it didn’t…

Barrio Boys (21 min)
Dir: Anthony Torres
A musical comedy about an ex-Menudo member’s attempts to launch a new Oi! Boy Band.

Stickers (16 min 30 sec)
Dir: Daniel Maldonado
The story of Tommy, a quiet yet imaginative 3rd grader, who while struggling for acceptance in class, recalls the sudden and haunting disappearance of his best friend and classmate, Judy Boyer.

Flight Delay (6 min 45 sec)
Dir: Tom Wilson
Set in San Antonio, 1947, a newspaper reporter investigating a possible scandal in the selection of a Fiesta Queen but becomes immersed in a mystery involving flying saucers and a famous missing pilot.

Meditation (10 min 30 sec)
Dir: Neil Ira Needleman
A story about life, illness, mortality, creativity, and the liberating effect of the death of a family pet.

Effluvium (15 min)
Dir: Christopher Frieri
A travelogue from New York to Europe shot on Super 8.

Reconnaissance (2 min 30 sec)
Dir: Jim Ford
Sometimes you have to risk it all, to get what you want. Nick Navy and Greg Grey will have to do all that and more in this action packed race against time.

Twitch (10 min)
Dir: Leah Meyerhoff
Twitch portrays a young girl’s irrational fear that her mother’s illness is contagious.

Mojave Phone Booth (87 min 31 sec)
Dir: John Putch
Mojave Phone Booth is the story of 4 disparate people whose lives intersect at a telephone booth, 70 miles from Las Vegas, in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

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