Dan Mirvish

Dan Mirvish

Birth : 1967-12-16, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

History

Prior to directing “18½,” award-winning filmmaker and author Dan Mirvish made the critically-acclaimed features "Bernard and Huey," "Between Us," "Open House" and "Omaha (the movie)." He's the author of "The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking" (Focal Press/Routledge), frequent film school guest lecturer and cofounder of the Slamdance Film Festival. A graduate of USC film school, Dan was also a U.S. Senate speechwriter and journalist.

Profile

Dan Mirvish

Movies

18½
Producer
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½-minute gap in Nixon's tapes.
18½
Director
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½-minute gap in Nixon's tapes.
Bernard and Huey
Producer
Two old friends reunite, which causes complications.
Bernard and Huey
Director
Two old friends reunite, which causes complications.
Between Us
Screenplay
A New York couple and their Midwestern friends find that drastic changes have occurred in their respective lives since they last met.
Between Us
Director
A New York couple and their Midwestern friends find that drastic changes have occurred in their respective lives since they last met.
Playing Columbine
Himself - Co-Founder of Slamdance
Chronicles the history of the game "Super Columbine Massacre RPG!." The film traces back the 16-bit role-playing game to its inception, through the 2006 shooting at Dawson College in which the game was singled out by the media as a "murder simulator" that "trained" the shooter, and finally the game's removal from the list of finalists at the Slamdance 2007 Guerrilla Gamemaker Competition - prompting half the entries and a sponsor to pull out of the festival in protest. Written by tolka
Open House
Director
A tangled tale of intrigue, romance, lost love, and the one thing everyone has in common: the American dream of finding a home. The off-kilter real estate agent desperate to sell a house, a pair of "Sexy Swipers" who make quickie love in open houses, down-on-his-luck jewel thief Dave, a couple of adulterous cops trying to break a big case, and Marjorie - a real estate agent whose life is as empty as her bottle of tequila: These strangers come together in the search for true love, a bag of jewels, and the perfect two-story Spanish colonial.
Threat of Exposure
Writer
A man poses as a hypnotherapist's patient to find the truth about his missing brother.
Open House
Writer
Open House
Director
Independent's Day
Self
Filmmakers at the Sundance Film Festival discuss what it is like to be an independent filmmaker, and what Sundance has done for them.
Omaha (The Movie)
Producer
From the co-founder of Slamdance comes the story of a young man who returns home from a trip abroad to confront not just his peculiar family and friends, but also a pair of Colombian jewel thieves and a roving gang of Iowa kickboxers, culminating in a showdown at Carhenge. A seminal movie in the history of independent film, "Omaha: The Movie" was the film that spearheaded the birth of the Slamdance Film Festival.
Omaha (The Movie)
Writer
From the co-founder of Slamdance comes the story of a young man who returns home from a trip abroad to confront not just his peculiar family and friends, but also a pair of Colombian jewel thieves and a roving gang of Iowa kickboxers, culminating in a showdown at Carhenge. A seminal movie in the history of independent film, "Omaha: The Movie" was the film that spearheaded the birth of the Slamdance Film Festival.
Omaha (The Movie)
Director
From the co-founder of Slamdance comes the story of a young man who returns home from a trip abroad to confront not just his peculiar family and friends, but also a pair of Colombian jewel thieves and a roving gang of Iowa kickboxers, culminating in a showdown at Carhenge. A seminal movie in the history of independent film, "Omaha: The Movie" was the film that spearheaded the birth of the Slamdance Film Festival.