Unicorns | A Film by Leah Meyerhoff

Natalia Dyer in final talks for 'Healer'
by Jeff Sneider

"Natalia Dyer is in final negotiations to join the cast of Giorgio Serafini's supernatural thriller "The Healer" ... Dyer will soon be seen in a breakout role as the lead in Leah Meyerhoff's "Unicorns," a coming-of-age story about an awkward teenage girl who escapes to a fantasy world when her first romantic relationship turns increasingly violent. Heather Rae ("Frozen River") and Mark Mathis ("Precious") produced the indie pic...Read More

MTV hits home with new hipster-happy dramedy
by David Hinckley

"Pants" makes us care about its characters. That may not seem like an ambitious or unusual goal until you think about the horde of forgettable shows that assumed they didn't have to do anything more than roll out a half dozen single young folks and let them talk about their sex lives. Peter Vack, a New Yorker you might have see doing guerrilla Shakespeare in the subways, plays Jason...Read More

Interview: Julia Garner
by Sean Glass

"Garner is 17-years-old with a powerful presence that she seems to not even be aware of ... she has been cast in Leah Meyerhoff's Unicorns - a filmmaker and film we recently profiled in our In the Pipeline series"Read More

In the Pipeline: Leah Meyerhoff (Writer/Director of Unicorns)
by Nicole Emanuele

You don't have to be Julian Assange to get the truth about Leah Meyerhoff. She's not afraid to tell it like it is. Read More

Crescent acquires Prominent Pictures stake
by Carl DiOrio

Deal will help fund slate of films budgeted at $2 mil-$10 mil "Heather Rae and Paull are working on a very exciting slate of films that we believe could potentially rival the quality and success of 'Frozen River,' " ... Read More

Heather Rae snags big Hollywood deal
by Dana Oland

There definitely will be more red carpets in filmmaker Heather Rae's future. The Boise-based independent filmmaker landed a new kind of Hollywood deal that comes with $10 million in equity to start - and potentially more to come - for her fledgling partnership with film executive and producer Paull Cho.Read More

Duo seeing ‘Unicorns’ for indie drama
by Jay A. Hernandez

[...]UNICORNS, an indie drama from writer-director Leah Meyerhoff. The film is being produced by FROZEN RIVER producer Heather Rae and executive produced by Allison Anders... Read More

Producer’s Awards Nominees
by Anthony Kaufman

For six years, FROZEN RIVER producer Heather Rae ran the Sundance Institute’s Native Program, working closely with Native American writer-directors, such as Randy Redroad and Sherman Alexie...Read More

Twitch and Shout
by Marc Homer

It may not be readily apparent that Leah Meyerhoff is an indie filmmaking champion, but underneath a mess of straight black hair and Barbie-pink eyeliner is the creative lifeblood of a devout cineaste. Her voicemail says it all....Read More

The Lovely Idealism Of Leah Meyerhoff
by Noralil Ryan Fores

To her recollection, filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff has always made some form of art. “My whole life I’ve considered myself to be an artist,” Meyerhoff adds, that defining noun ‘artist’ included as part of her character without the fear of pretension imprinting a waver in her inflection.....Read More

“Leah is an artsy American making a movie based on her own angry, cold relationship with her disabled mother.”- Virginia Heffernan

“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 innocenc eand 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 has 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. Maybe someday in the future Meyerhoff will revisit this character, but if not, she has still made a film well worth watching.”- Doug Brunell

“There’s Leah Meyerhoff, whose film will help her face down demons collected from a childhood spent taking care of her wheelchair-bound mother with MS.”- Ray Richmond

“Tisch alumni Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese and Marc Forster make cameo appearances, but the real stars are unknowns like Bay Area native Leah Meyerhoff who casts her own mother to play her mother.”- Hugh Hart

“Young filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff writes and directs this short film that so far has won almost universal accolades on the festival set. The film unfolds without exposition, instead following a young teenager through a series of snapshot scenes, detailing her increasing neurosis that perhaps her mother’s disability is contagious. As the girl begins to believe that she, like her mother, will lose the use of her legs, the gulf that divides mother and daughter widens. It’s a strange, insular take on growing up and rings with the veracity of real-life experience. Twitch is a hard but impressive little film. The travails 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.” - Ben Beard

“When the story is as good as filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff’s you can’t help but be drawn in. Meyerhoff’s film Twitch is a 10-minute short that thrusts the viewer right in the middle of a teenage girl’s complex and turbulent life.”- Jennifer Modenessi