Planet Ant Film & Video Festival 2008

POSE DOWN is a dark comedy set in Southwest Florida revolving around three former high school classmates –THE BODYBUILDER, THE GOOD OL' BOY and THE HOMECOMING QUEEN - whose lives become entangled after the airing of a tabloid news program.

POSE DOWN's twisted journey begins with a MacGuffin about a Killer Bodybuilder BRIAN DECK and slowly shifts into a story about his high school sweetheart, MARLENA GATE, who returns to her hometown to bury both her estranged mother and her past. POSE DOWN – one element of a bodybuilding competition where all the competitors face off against one another simultaneously - becomes a metaphor for the characters living and working in a small Southwest Florida town, particularly for our main protagonist, Marlena, who must literally "pose down" her past in order to look to a better future.

POSE DOWN is an unconventional film with a very distinct aesthetic and personal style. It deals with themes and issues shared by many women struggling for independence and searching for an identity. The film also does a provocative balancing of the funny and ironic with the sad and tragic. The film continues along a similar thematic journey with writer/director ERIKA YEOMANS' other short films and videos (Paging Dr. Freud, Chubby Buddy, The Forgery, In Search of Bas Jan's Miraculous).