Tribeca All Access® 2012
A teenage girl, resentful of a childhood spent caring for her disabled mother, runs away with an older boy only to discover that their new life together is not the fantasy she had imagined.
Director/Screenwriter
Leah Meyerhoff is a Slamdance winner and Student Academy Awards finalist whose films have screened in 200 festivals and aired on IFC, LOGO and PBS. She holds a Bachelors from Brown and Masters from NYU.
Producer
Heather Rae has produced such films as Academy Award nominated Frozen River, Netflix Originals Tallulah and Dude, festival darling, I Believe in Unicorns and the award-winning The Dry Land and Bull which premiered in Cannes. Rae directed and produced feature documentary Trudell which has played more than 100 festivals world-wide including Sundance and Berlin, and First Circle, a Showtime Premiere documentary about the foster care system in the American West. Her short doc Paulette tells the story of Paulette Jordan and her run for Governor in Rae’s home state of Idaho. As a narrative change activist Rae has worked to deepen the dialogue of reconciliation and responsibility in the Americas.
Co-Producer
Kwesi Collisson has produced for television, advertising and features, including Conversations With Other Women, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, 7 Days in Utopia, Learning Uncle Vincent, Luv and The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best.