From John Wildman's "WildWorx" blog on Wordpress:
"VOID
Meredith Berg’s VOID is a supernatural thriller about a female FBI agent investigating a series of grisly murders in a small, desert town. What she finds through her investigation is the involvement of a little boy in a way she never could have imagined. Berg has a love for/background with editing comic books and graphic novels and this short film has the kind of darkly clever premise and twists within it that are borne directly from that world. I don’t want to spoil the ending, but I will say that it bears some DNA from the classic TWILIGHT ZONE episode “It’s a Good Life”. I will also add that Berg doesn’t shy away from the gore – and the horror genre could use a smart female storyteller not afraid or shy to dole out some scares from her perspective."
From Indiewire's review "Three Weeks to Make a Short - And Then Hit the Red Carpet at the DGA" by Kim Adelman (June 3, 2009)
"With alumnae ranging from Maya Angelou to Moon Unit Zappa, the AFI Directing Workshop for Women has a reputation as an innovative and unique filmmaking training program for women of varied backgrounds. With great expectations of discovering new directing talent at this year’s Red Carpet Showcase, an industry-heavy audience filled every one of the 600 seats at the Directors Guild Theater in Hollywood on May 11, 2009...
...Selected from over 200 applications to the 2008 AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Meredith Berg, Joy Gohring, Joanna Jurewicz, Mary Ann Kellogg, Alexa-Sascha Lewin, and Dominika Waclawiak were given three weeks of intense instruction at the American Film Institute in Hollywood and allotted five days to shoot their narrative live action short films...
...The closing short, “Void,” kept the audience on its toes. The plot begins with a female FBI agent arriving to investigate a string of gruesome murders. Very quickly, the viewer begins to suspect things aren’t exactly what they seem in writer/director Meredith Berg’s scenario...unexpected and satisfying plot twists made “Void” one of the most talked about pieces at the post-screening reception. Berg’s background is in theater and comic books."
From FIlmGuru.Net review of the Screamfest Festival presentation:
"In a small desert town, FBI Special Agent Liz Metera (Jennifer Christopher) is investigating a series of gruesome deaths. Her job is made more difficult by the fact that the bodies seem to be torn apart by an animal — something monstrous. As she begins to piece together the evidence of the latest death, she meets a young boy named Avery (Michael Len). His ill-tempered father may have information about how the victims met their unpleasant fate.
At first glance, Void seems like a cast-off episode of The X-Files. An attractive FBI agent, sans Mulder, is investigating unnatural deaths. She seems well-educated, and doesn’t flinch when she sees the remains of the body. But Agent Metera is more nurturing, more motherly, than Scully could ever be. Her fascination with Avery comes across as natural, not forced for the sake of story. Meredith Berg does a wonderful job of drawing the audience into a place that is both familiar and strange."