Lanny Meyers Movies

Why is it easier to mourn the loss of an object than the loss of a loved one?

"I, Candy" deconstructs a drawing Candy Kugel made when she was six years old. It explores her life, touching on family history, current events and...

Vashti, the Queen of Persia, loses her crown when she refuses to appear at a drunken council meeting wearing only her crown and nothing else. Her act...

Karen Hughes, a high school ballet dancer and cheerleader, develops an addiction to shoplifting after watching a friend steal clothing from a store,...

An intimate exploration of the circumstances surrounding the incarceration of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of murder in 1977,...

An authentic, real-life story of what happens when a client, executive producer or publisher suggests "one little change."

While preparing for the Christmas season, a woman dreams of traveling to witness the Nativity.

"KnitWits Revisited" brings us back to the KnitWits' knitting store.

Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer,...

Vincent Cafarelli and Candy Kugel worked together for 38 years making animated films -- both commercial and personal. Unexpectedly Vincent, after a...

A tender showbiz saga about an aging Borscht Belter who passes the mantle to a younger comic who is about to get his big break. Offbeat and kitsch,...

Market of Hate began as a whisper in March 2023. The whisper became a deafening shout on October 7th. It's a cry for compassion, our need to resist...

The animated 30-minute piece is designed to act as an icebreaker for discussions between parents and their children.

A young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor.

A series of shared moments between father and daughter.

In praise of a New York deli delivery man, who dodges cars like a matador dodges bulls.

Puts a new slant on an old favorite fairy tale, bringing it up-to-date to explain such new age pop-psych phenomena as passive/aggressive behavior,...

"Command Z" asks what would it be like if you could "undo" in real life as easily as you can on a computer?

Chronicles the seemingly impossible task of attending two important family obligations taking place 48 hours apart.

"KnitWits" chronicles a Saturday afternoon in a knitting store in New York City where a group of regulars gather weekly to swap stories, gossip,...