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World Premiere, Krakow Film Festival, Krakow, Poland, 2024.
US Premiere, Cinequest, San Jose, CA, 2025
A short stop-motion animation about grief and our shadow selves. In collaboration with the Didi Hirsch Transitional Age Youth Center, created, written and voiced by LA-based teen clients.
Premiering at the Valley Film Festival in August, 2024.
Nominated for Best Short Short, Glendale International Film Festival, September, 2024
Official Selection, Borrego Springs Film Festival, 2025
Award-winner, Raw Science Film Festival, 2018
Official selection, APHA Film Festival, 2017
US & International Distribution: Off the Fence
Educational Distribution: Alexander Street
Distributed by Alexander Street.
Co-directed and co-produced with Emily Topper
Executive Produced by Bona Fide Productions (Crumb, Little Miss Sunshine, Nebraska, Cold Mountain, Election) and Chicken & Egg Pictures
World Premiere in competition at CPH: DOX, 2014; Goteburg FF, Maryland FF, Middleburg FF, Virginia FF, Durango FF.
Nominated for the DOK Award, CPH:DOX, 2014
Named “Best Film of 2014” by Baltimore Magazine.
Invited to Independent Feature Project Week: Spotlight on Documentaries NYC, 2010, Good Pitch SF 2011
Recipient of the IDA Pare Lorentz Award, a Pacific Pioneers Grant, the SFFS Herbert Family Documentary Award, and Chicken & Egg Funding
Directed by Jacob Hatley, Executive Produced by Bona Fide Productions (Crumb, Little Miss Sunshine, Cold Mountain, Election)
Premiered at SXSW March 2010, Los Angeles Film Festival, IDFA, CPH:DOX
Winner, “Spirit of Music Award,” Nashville FF
One of Paste Magazine’s Ten Best Documentaries of 2010
Rolling Stone’s 30 Best Music Documentaries Streaming This Instant
Directed by Jacob Hatley, starring Levon Helm (The Band, Coal Miner’s Daughter, The Last Waltz) and Danny Vinson (Walk the Line, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eastbound and Down)
Executive Produced by Vanguard Records
Broadcast on VH1, CMT, RFD
Directed by Melanie McGraw
Student Academy Award, 2007
BAFTA Award, 2007
Directed by Dina Gachman
Starring Troian Bellisario and Riley Rose Critchlow.
With "Archer House," a 16-minute short film written and directed by Dina Gachman, a young outcast (Riley Rose Critchlow) with a privileged legacy braves the petit four-fueled skits and cult-like rituals of a Texas sorority.
Is it for journalism? for love? for family?
Nobody really knows until the very end thanks to a delightfully witty and intelligent script by Gachman and Critchlow's multi-layered performance that offers equal doses of sensitivity and humor.
"Archer House" feels a little bit like that delightful dark comedy, "Pumpkin," with just a smidgen of "Animal House" thrown in for good measure.
The result is a consistently entertaining film that makes you laugh, think and feel simultaneously.
"Archer House," which screened at the AFI Film Festival in Dallas and is rumored as being pitched to NBC as a potential series, benefits greatly from an ensemble cast that clearly gets Gachman's vision and the result is one of 2007's truly stellar short films.
-The Independent Critic
Directed by Rain Breaw
Animation by Andrew Thomas Huang
Co-directed and co-produced with Emily Topper
