Drama Teacher Works on Short Feature Film

8/3/2016

Middle School drama teacher Lydia Horan spent a week in Pennsylvania working on the short feature film, STIFF, directed by Gabrielle Pfeiffer, an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter who has worked on over 50 film and television projects. STIFF is being produced through GRIT PIX.

The film turned into a real family affair. Lydia served as casting director, props master, and occasional costumer. When the chef had to leave, Lydia even took over cooking two meals a day for forty people.

Lydia's husband Michael Horan played the lead role in the film. Their daughters Addie (TFS alum from class of 2006) and Maggie (TFS alum from class of 2009) came down from New York, where they also act, to play the roles of two young women in the film.

Synopsis of the film: "Based on a short story by the late Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuściński, the film centers around a journalist helping some factory workers deliver the body of a young man who has been killed in a work accident to his paralyzed father. On the way, their truck breaks down, they are forced to carry the coffin with the body through the woods and relationships are strained. They have a real or possibly imagined enchanted encounter in the woods with some young women and are given the strength and renewed sense of community to carry on."