Spotlight on ‘Pose Down’ and ‘Bachelors of Broken Hill Farm’ filmmaker Erika Yeomans
Erika Yeomans has two films in the Fort Myers Film Festival. The first is the throwback feature Pose Down, a film about accepting your actions and facing your past. The second is The Bachelors of Broken Hill Farm, a stylized archival documentary about forbidden love and a life devoted to the arts.
Over the years, Erika Yeomans has created an extensive body of work in theater, mixed media and film. As the co-founder and artistic director of the performance company Doorika, she collaborated 
with various artists (Casey Spooner of FischerSpooner, Jon Langford of The Mekons, and award-winning experimental filmmaker Ken Kobland of the Wooster Group) to create multimedia and theater projects in Chicago and New York.
Since 1999, Yeomans has focused primarily on filmmaking. Her videos and films have won grants and screened at film festivals and art institutions around the world, including London’s ICA, Lincoln Center’s New York Video Festival, Los Angeles’ Disney Hall/REDCAT Theater, Hollywood Women’s Film Festival, Berlin’s Transmediale, Silver Lake Film Festival, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, Cinematek at the Danish Film Institute and New York’s Anthology Film Archives.
Her most recent feature documentary The Bachelors of Broken Hill Farm (2018, 76 mins) is touring the festival circuit. Erica is currently in development on a new film project.
She is the Co-Chair of NYWIFT’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund in NYC.
Pose Down screens at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 15 in the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center. The Bachelors of Broken Hill Farms screens at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 13 at the Sidney and Berne Davis Art Center and at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 16 at the Laboratory Theater of Florida.
May 8, 2021.
About the Author
Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.