My Backyard Was a Mountain is a 2005 multiple award winning AFI short film by Puerto Rican - American writer/director Adam Schlachter and produced by Austin Wakefield.
Schlachter first filmed a black-and-white version of the movie in 2004 called Palmarejo to secure financing for his project.
[3] Much of the cast of the earlier version was invited to reprise their roles for My Backyard Was a Mountain.
The movie premiered on October 23, 2005 at the Arclight Hollywood Film Festival and is currently available for download on iTunes.
The movie is set in the early 1960s and deals with Adan's family needing to relocate from rural Puerto Rico to New York City.