Twitch
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A short film by Leah Meyerhoff
Female
30 years old
Brooklyn, NEW YORK
United States
Last Login: 2/12/2009
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Twitch's Film Bio
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| Website | twitchthemovie.com | | Directors | Leah Meyerhoff | | Awards | Student Academy Awards - Finalist
Slamdance - 2nd Place Best Narrative Short
Avignon - Best American Short
Brooklyn Disability - 1st Place
Scottsdale International - Best Student Short
Golden Star - Best of Fest
West Chester - Best Female Director
Rhode Island International - Honorable Mention
Berkeley Film Festival - Grand Festival Award
Ole Muddy - 1st Place
Calgary International - Honorable Mention
Harry M. Warner - 3rd Place
Pawky Contest - Finalist
Boxurshorts Film Festival - Finalist
California Independent - Best Mini Short nominee
SoundSpace NY - Post Award
Tisch Departmental Grant | | Festivals | Annapolis
Antimatter
Arpa
Atlanta
Avignon
Backseat
Big Bear Lake
Boston Underground
Boxurshorts
Brainwash
Brighton
Brooklyn Cinema Series
Brooklyn Disability
Brooklyn International
Brooklyn Underground
B-Side
Calgary International
California Independent
Cannes
Cardiff Screen
Chicago International
Cinechico
Cinema Paradise
Clermont-Ferrand
Cork International
Dance and Shout
Daytona Beach
DC Shorts
DC Underground
Direct Indies
Ellensburg
Energy TV
Film Platform
First Look
First Run
Fylmz
Girlfest Hawaii
Global Art
Golden Star
Great Lakes
Her Voice Her View
Hi Mom
HollyShorts
Hudson Valley
IFC
Inflatable Duck
Ladyfest Humboldt
Ladyfest Malmo
Ojai
Ladyfest San Diego
Ladyfest Stockholm
Last Supper
Look & Roll
Los Angeles Short
Lost Film Fest
Malibu Int’l
Marblehead
Milan International
New Filmmakers
Newport Beach
Newport International
Next Frame
NMWA
Nolita
Now
NYC Home
Ohio Independent
Ole Muddy
Ozark
Palm Springs
Planet Ant
Poppy Jasper
Portland Underground
Provincetown
Queens International
Reel Heart International
Reel Women International
Rhode Island International
Rome International
Route 66
San Diego Women
San Francisco Independent
Sarasota
Scottsdale International
SF Women’s
Show Me Missouri
Silver Lake Shorts
Slamdance
Small Potato
Swansea Bay
Teabag
Toofy
Trenton
Vermont International
Waterfront
West Chester
Wichtia
Wildsound
Williamsburg Short
Women in Film
Woodstock
Youth for Human Rights
Zion International | | Professional Affiliations | New York University |
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Twitch's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Occupation: | short film |
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About me:
A Student Acadamy Awards finalist, Twitch portrays a young girl's irrational fear that her mother's disability is contagious.
Twitch kicked off the film festival circuit by winning a Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance and going on to screen at over 100 film festivals worldwide: including Cannes, Palm Springs, Brooklyn International, Chicago International, Woodstock, and Clermont-Ferrand.
Twitch has since won over a dozen international awards, including six for First Place. Twitch is also featured on Film School currently airing on IFC.
Leah Meyerhoff is a Brown University graduate and an MFA candidate at New York University. After finishing Twitch, she went on to direct the music video Team Queen and is currently working on her first feature film.
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Twitch tells the poignant story of a young girl torn between two worlds: her domestic life where she must care for her wheelchair-bound mother and her escape into the emerging world of sexuality with her eager, hormone-addled boyfriend..The director..s own mother; a victim of MS, plays the mother with a stark reality that is haunting to watch, and Emma Galvin captures the daughter..s struggles with an understated command that belies the hidden turmoil of adolescent angst that tortures her character.
Independent Film
Meyerhoff easily conveys the neuroses and brutality attendant to an enforced reversal of roles: when the line between caregiver and charge is hopelessly blurred.
Antimatter Film Festival
Twitch is a story about fear, love, and an uncertain future. Galvin deftly portrays a girl who longs for a childhood she knows she can never have because she was forced to grow up too quickly. She can convey both innocence and maturity with just a look, and her future in films is solid. Writer/director Leah Meyerhoff has also secured her place in film with this short movie, which may be a bit autobiographical in nature. She..s done a story that is as honest as it is touching, and there is nothing sickly sweet about it. Her ability to sum up a young girl..s life in ten minutes is remarkable, and it makes the film.
Film Threat
Twitch seems to let the message lie just underneath the surface, waiting to be discovered.
Scottsdale International Film Festival
Twitch is a hard but impressive little film. The travails of growing up, the immense pain of post-adolescence, the terror of the big nasty world resting just outside our windows: Twitch augers in the universal places of hurt in the human brain. We can take solace that Meyerhoff is now working on her first feature-length film. Twitch shows great promise; we now must wait for Meyerhoff's talents to fully bloom.
Film Monthly
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New Filmmakers
7:00pm November 28 2007
Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
Now Film Festival
May 10 2008
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Linwood Dunn Theatre
1313 N. Vine st.
Hollywood, CA
Look and Roll Film Festival
October 2008
Olten, Switzerland
For more information go to www.twitchthemovie.com
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