Leah Meyerhoff

Leah Meyerhoff is an award-winning independent filmmaker who wrote and directed the narrative feature film I Believe In Unicorns, which was released theatrically after premiering at SXSW, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival and additional awards from Woodstock Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Tribeca Film Institute, IFP, and the Adrienne Shelly Foundation. Leah’s films have screened in over 200 film festivals and aired on IFC, PBS, LOGO, and MTV. She is a fellow of the IFP Narrative Labs, Tribeca All Access Labs, and Emerging Visions program at the New York Film Festival. Leah is also the founder of Film Fatales, a nonprofit organization which advocates for parity in the film industry and supports a membership community of over a thousand women and non-binary feature film and television directors nationwide. She holds a BA in art-semiotics from Brown University and an MFA in directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.