Come see ZOMBIE LAKE w/Q&A
ZOMBIE LAKE (2026). Directed by Rowan Wernham. Original score by Dan Boeckner.
Rowan and I are screening Zombie Lake, a short disaster zone film we shot as we were wrapping up production of Pistachio Wars. It was our final trip out to the Central Valley to witness a brief moment in time when nature seemed to be healing, when it rained and snowed so much that winter that it seemed no amount of terraforming or geoengineering could hold back the flood of water coming to rewild Tulare Lake, a once beautiful part of California that had been drained and turned into a marscape by a couple of oligarchic families to grow nuts and cotton and other assorted items.
For the first time in many generations, it seemed like Lake Tulare really was in for a come back. A flood of biblical proportions was coming to wipe out all the toxic fields and agri-infastructure that had been festering on the land like a plague…water that would turn the region back into the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi that had extended across the heart of California as a region of shifting marshes and wetlands. Or…that was the hope. So Rowan and I went to investigate. This film is about that.
If you’re in the New Year area, come out to watch it with us on Sunday, April 19th at 7 p.m. in Brooklyn. Here’s the info:
Film Noir Cinema 122 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 $10 suggested donation
Reserve your spot and buy tickets in advance. It’s a small theater.
The screening will be followed by a short Q&A and drinks at a nearby bar.
First 25 people to buy tickets will get a signed poster.
