Winner - Best Short Film - CUFF

 
  Brilliant - Jeff Krulik

 
  A Tour De Force - Erik Lopez  


Part baseball documentary, part anti drug film, part socio-political satire,
I’M KEITH HERNANDEZ utilizes a version of Hernandez life as a vehicle to discuss how male identity is shaped by TV/film, sports, advertising, and pornography. By examining the aforementioned types of media in conjunction with Lacan’s “Mirror Theory”, a clearer picture of masculinity emerges. As part of this discourse, the physical attribute of the mustache is explored as a symbol of male virility. Other topics include the Iran/Contra Affair and the resulting “Crack Explosion”, celebrity obsessed culture, and the subtleties of children’s television programming.


(For those of you who are confused about this project it was made entirely as an artistic pursuit and not for any commercial gain.  At its core, the piece is satirical in nature and although elements of truth exist the project aims to excite, provoke, and entertain for the purposes of education.  It is the creators’ belief that through the use of humor and gross inaccuracy that a certain truth can be gained.  In this case the filmmakers have chosen Keith Hernandez as a subject in order to make a social commentary.  The filmmakers have a great respect for Keith Hernandez as a baseball player, announcer, and personality. It is their hope that if you have enjoyed this site and the film that you will donate to the Alzheimer’s Association a charity supported by Keith Hernandez.)

 

Click here to make a donation to fight Alzheimer's Disease.

 

Click Here to visit the Alzheimer's Disease Online Support Group.

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The Manhood Behind The Mustache
An Interview with Nerve.com's Ada Calhoun and Rob Perri:
"Rob Perri is an L.A.-dwelling twenty-eight-year-old filmmaker with some serious nostalgia for the pre-steroids baseball games he watched growing up on Long Island. He especially loved the '86 Mets, a hardscrabble gang of slutty, drug-addled young men led to victory by the Golden Glove-winning, mustachioed first baseman Keith Hernandez."

Click Here To Read The Interview

Only in L.A., Steve Harvey, L.A. Times:
L.A. Mystery
"My colleague Jim Barrero noticed that a likeness of retired ballplayer Keith Hernandez has popped up on a wall near the Spring Street exit of the 101 Freeway. Why in L.A.? Hernandez never played here. All I can think of is that the artist was a New York Mets fan who was saddened by the team's collapse this year and wanted to remember Hernandez and the 1986 Mets championship team."

"Sorry, I'm not moved. I have my own problems, being a Dodgers fan."

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Village Voice Article:
Keith Hernandez and the Contras
"And you thought the man only sold hair cream"

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I'm Keith Hernandez Interview:
"Porn, Baseball and Moustache's. Ask no more. How streetbombing promotion for the underground cult film, I'm Keith Hernandez, got all the peeps on the block talking."

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Praise from Erik Lopez of SLUG Magazine:
Let me just get this out of the way first: Rob Perri is a genius. He has combined the likes of Being John Malcovich with 99 Tribulations to create a short, sweet and to the point look at, when T-shirts say the man, the legend, Keith Hernandez. Perri brings you into intimate and close contact with what it would be like if you were Keith Hernandez - he masterfully uses news reel, clips and other Hernandez footage to make an obsessively wonderful portrait of America's favorite mustached macho man, but also uses him as a vehicle to talk about how Hernandez has shaped, no I mean is, the 80s. Educational, humorous, thoroughly research and well-crafted, I'm Keith Hernandez is that breath of fresh air in documentaries that is a must-have and deserves to placed next to your copy of High School High.
-Erik Lopez


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After New York Underground Film Festival

From The Village Voice:
"The mainstream popularity of these forms from Sundance to South Park doesn't invalidate the outsider ethos of Random Lunacy: Videos From the Road Less Traveled, a lively documentary portrait of old-school boho Poppa Neutrino and his peripatetic brood, nor the impish kick of I'm Keith Hernandez, a biography of the cokehead baseball legend and one-time porn star done up VH1 style."

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From IndieWire Reverse Shot Blog:
See, I'm Keith Hernandez, a short film by Rob Perri, screens tonight in the NYUFF's "Fierce Creatures" shorts program. The film, a fast-paced, irreverent, and very funny rundown of Keith at his best (clutch hitting in the World Series, a legendary Seinfeld appearance, never forsaking his power-enhancing moustache) and his worst (drug use, porn acting, kowtowing to Ronald Reagan), is supposed to "discuss how male identity is shaped by TV/film, sports, advertising, and pornography."

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"Im Keith Hernandez" Mentioned In the New Issue
of Tokion Magazine


After making it as one of the finalists for the King Of Doc Contest presented by Tokion Magazine and Dewars, the film was mentioned in the latest issue, along with an image of the poster.

Click Here To Read the Blurb

Click Here To See the Layout


After Tulsa Overground Film Festival, Tulsa OK. Sept 8-10

"Perri has made films since he was a child and has even made music videos in Los Angeles; but this documentary is his baby. For two years, he and his partners have collaborated and researched for this 19-minute documentary hoping audiences will accept it and take away an understanding on how the media and sports can shape young male minds.
 
Perri was able to breathe a sigh of relief as he sat in the audience and heard the roar of laughter and the thunderous applause at the end of his showing."

www.urbantulsa.com

"The best film of the entire festival was Rob Perri's “I’m Keith Hernandez.” A pseudo-documentary of the baseball legend/Just For Men spokesman, the film’s excellent production and subtle humor kept me laughing throughout. If you ever have the chance, check it out. It inspired me to grow out my mustache."

www.utulsa.edu


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CHROMA 9 Gestación del Arte Audiovisual
Centro de Arte Audiovisual
Lerdo de Tejada 2071
Del 17 al 19 de Noviembre
16:00 a 21:00 hrs

Casa Escorza
Escorza 83-A
Del 18 al 21 de Noviembre
16:00 a 21:00 hrs

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Cucalorus Film Festival
Wilmington, NC.
Saturday, Nov. 10, 10:30PM
at Jengo's Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
910-343-5995

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Northampton Independent Film Festival
Northhampton, MA.
Saturday, Nov. 3, 11:00PM
at the Academy of Music Theatre

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Tallgrass Film Festival
Wichita, KS.
Sunday, Oct. 21, 2:15PM
at the Warren Old Town Theatre

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Calgary International Film Festival
Calgary, Alberta
Saturday, Sep. 29th, 3:15PM
at the Globe Theater

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New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
Los Angeles, CA.
Saturday, Sep. 29th, 2:00PM
at the Laemelle Sunset 5

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Chicago Underground Film Festival
Chicago, IL.
Saturday, Aug. 18th, 8:30PM
at the Elegant Mr. Gallery

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Seattle True Independent Film Festival
Seattle, WA.
Thursday, May 31st 6:15 PM
at the Jewel Box Theatre

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Seattle International Film Festival
Seattle, WA.
Tuesday, May 29th 9:00 PM
at the Northwest Film Forum

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Maryland Film Festival
Baltimore, MD.
Saturday, May 5th 4:30 PM
at the Charles Theatre

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Peripheral Produce,
Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival

Portland, OR.
Sunday, April 29th 3:15 PM
at Hollywood Theater


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Rebel Planet Film Festival
North Hollywood, CA.
Friday, April 20th 3:00-4:00 PM
at the Beverly Garland Theater


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Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival
Iowa City, IA.
Friday, April 20th 8:00-10:30 PM
at Bijou Theater ITS FREE!


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BEST of TROMADANCE
Saturday, April 14th
at the legendary Anthology Film Archives, NYC

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New York Underground Film Festival
Anthology Film Archives, Thursday, March 29th at 6:15pm
Repeat Showing, Monday, April 2nd at 9:45pm

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Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston, MA.

Brattle Theater, Sunday, March 25th

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TromaDance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
at Kristauf's Martini Bar on Saturday, January 27th

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Tulsa Overground Film Festival, Tulsa, OK. Sept 8-10


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Tribeca Grand Hotel, New York, N.Y. Sept 22nd

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Giambi's Most Valuable Mustache by David Puner:
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The Stache by Daniel Hernandez:
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Hit Like Hernandez, Fuck Like Hernandez:
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The Master Stash of Cardinal 'Stache:
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Men Look At Crotches:
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Hitting Slump by Ada Calhoun:
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