I saw this film at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, where my film "The Meeting" was screening. Of all the shorts at the festival, it was the one that most stuck with me, mostly because of its twisted sense of humor and cinematic inventiveness.
My film played again at the Florida Film Festival in June, and so did "Herd." I made a point of catching it again, and with a totally fresh audience. It received (easily) the best response of all the films in that particular shorts program.
If you have a local film festival, keep an eye open for this low-tech classic. Often filmmakers (myself included) dwell too long on trying to get Hollywood-like production values. Mike Mitchell eschews all that, knowing the low-tech shortcuts to communicate the same ideas in much funnier ways.
