I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS takes us on a road trip through the stunning and complex landscape of troubled young love. Davina is an imaginative and strongwilled teenage girl who often escapes into a beautifully twisted fantasy life. Having grown up quickly as the sole caretaker of her disabled mother, she looks for salvation in a new relationship with an older boy. Davina is swept into a whirlwind of romance and adventure, but the enchantment of her new relationship quickly fades when Sterling’s volatile side begins to emerge.
Leah Meyerhoff is an award-winning filmmaker whose narrative feature film I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS was released theatrically after premiering at SXSW, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival and additional awards from the Tribeca Film Institute, San Francisco Film Society and the Adrienne Shelly Foundation. Meyerhoff’s previous short film TWITCH won a Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance, was shortlisted for the Student Academy Awards and was broadcast by IFC, PBS and Skandinavia TV. She has directed a Converse commercial and several music videos including TEAM QUEEN for Triple Creme, ETERNAL FLAME for Joan as Police Woman and THROUGH HERE LIKE OUR FATHERS for Luff, which have aired on LOGO and MTV. Meyerhoff is a fellow of IFP’s Narrative Labs, the NY Film Festival Emerging Visions program and the Tribeca Film Festival All Access Labs. She is a Tribeca Film Institute mentor and has lectured at Tisch Asia, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and New York Film Academy. She has served on film festival juries including Slamdance, Dallas, Nashville, Sarasota, Hollyshorts, Rooftop and Woodstock. Meyerhoff is the founder of Film Fatales, an advocacy group and non-profit organization which supports a community of hundreds of women feature film and television directors around the world. She holds a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University and an MFA in Directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Meyerhoff is repped by Joanne Wiles at ICM.