The Mowers

In a dystopian near-future lurking right around the corner, two women cut down sunflowers with machetes in the heat of a Hill Country summer. But when one of them starts asking questions that she’s not supposed to ask, the other one makes a heroic effort to save her life.

  • Liam Mathison Farmer
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Screenplay, Short Script
  • Number of Pages:
    12
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Writer Biography - Liam Mathison Farmer

Liam Mathison Farmer is the writer of the award-winning psychological horror short Coercion, winner of Best Short Screenplay at the 2025 Los Angeles Crime & Horror and Austin Short Film Festivals.

His drama feature Crosswater was a 2024 Academy Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinalist and Austin Film Festival second-rounder, and his comedy feature The Gospel According To Chad was a 2025 Big Apple Film Festival and Outstanding Screenplays Competition semifinalist.

His other credits include Assistant Director/Production Manager of the comedy shorts Acting 101 and Mis-Conception, both Austin Film Meet productions, and AD/PM of Downhill, a Creative Circuit Studios/Bellamy Films holiday horror short.

Farmer was raised in Chicago but now calls Austin home.

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Writer Statement

I write about power, influence, resistance, disobedience, framing, and mold-breaking.