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Twitch is a Student Academy Award-nominated short film directed by Leah Meyerhoff and starring Emma Galvin, Peter Corrie, Toni Meyerhoff.
Twitch kicked off the film festival circuit by winning a Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance and going on to screen in over 200 film festivals worldwide. Twitch has since won over a dozen international awards and is currently airing on the Independent Film Channel and Skandinavia TV.




Plot


Twitch tells the story of a young girl torn between two worlds: her domestic life, where she must care for her mother who uses a wheelchair, and her escape into the emerging world of sexuality with her eager, hormone-addled boyfriend. Leah's mother plays the Mother role in an essentially autobiographical role for the filmmaker. The making of the film was a component of the IFC series Film School, chronicling the first time filmmaking efforts of four New York University graduate film school students.




Cast


Emma Galvin as Daughter
Peter Corrie as Boyfriend
Toni Meyerhoff as Mother




Awards


Student Academy Awards — Finalist
Slamdance — Honorable Mention
Avignon Film Festival — Best American Short
Rhode Island International Film Festival — Honorable Mention
Golden Star Shorts Fest — Best of Fest
Golden Star Shorts Fest — Best Narrative Short
Brooklyn International Disability Film Festival — Best Short
Scottsdale International Film Festival — Best Student Short
West Chester Film Festival — Best Female Director
Berkeley Film Festival — Grand Festival Award
Rebel Film Festival — Best Experimental Short
Brown Emerging Filmmakers — Best Drama
Ole Muddy Film Festival — First Place
Harry M. Warner Film Festival — Third Place
Sound Space — Post Award
Calgary International Film Festival — Honorable Mention
California Independent Film Festival — Best Mini Short Nominee
Swansea Bay Film Festival — Best Drama Nominee
Pawky Little Film Contest — Finalist
Trenton Film Festival — Best Actress Nominee




Festivals






Reviews


Doug Brunell of Film Threat gave Twitch three stars, saying that "Twitch is a story about fear, love, and an uncertain future. Meyerhoff has secured her place in film with this short movie. She's done a story that is as honest as it is touching. Her ability to sum up a young girl's life in ten minutes is remarkable."
Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times wrote that "Leah is an artsy American" and Elaine Mak of New England Film said that "award-winning director Leah Meyerhoff has built up a large list of accomplishments as a filmmaker."
Jennifer Modenessi of the Contra Costa Times said that "when the story is as good as filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff's, you can't help but be drawn in" and Ben Beard of Film Monthly said that "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."




References






External links


Official website
Twitch on YouTube
Twitch at IMDb

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