- Mike Cahill (director)
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Not to be confused with the director of King of California.
Mike Cahill Born July 5, 1979
New Haven, ConnecticutOccupation Film director, screenwriter Notable works Another Earth (2011) Mike Cahill (born 5 July 1979) is an American film director and screenwriter.
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Background
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Mike Cahill, at the Crosby Street Hotel in Manhattan.—indieWire[1] Mike Cahill was born in New Haven, Connecticut on 5 July 1979.[2] His first forays into filmmaking were with Fisher-Price and VHS camcorders when he was young.[3] After high school, Cahill studied economics at Georgetown University, graduating in 2001. While a student there he formed a close relationship with professional colleague and friend Brit Marling, whom he met at a Georgetown film festival,[4][5][6] and the two began working on short films together where Marling would act and Cahill would direct.[7]
Professional career
While still in his senior year at Georgetown, Cahill began interning with National Geographic Television and Film, soon becoming their youngest field producer, editor and cinematographer.[1][6][8][9] He and Marling collaborated on Boxers and Ballerinas (2004), an exploration of the U.S.–Cuba conflict through the lives of four characters, while living in Cuba.[1] Cahill next moved to Los Angeles. There he was taken on as editor for two Sundance features, Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man and Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out.[10]
2011 was Cahill's pivotal year. His first feature film as director and screenwriter, Another Earth, about a parallel Planet Earth, was a success at the Sundance Film Festival and was picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight Pictures.[9]
Cahill currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. He has begun working on his next two projects – one a film about reincarnation and the other about "a fashion designer who lives at the bottom of the sea."[11]
Influences
Cahill has cited Julian Schnabel as a significant influence on his work.[12] He considers Krzysztof Kieslowski one of his favorite filmmakers, specifically citing The Double Life of Véronique as having a profound impact on him.[13] Cahill, who has a casual interest in astronomy, was also influenced by the work of astronomer Richard Berendzen – in particular, Berendzen's audiobook Pulp Physics. He is also an admirer of Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov.[14][15]
Filmography
Year Film Director Writer Producer Editor Notes 2004 Boxers and Ballerinas ✓ ✓ In collaboration with Brit Marling 2005 Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man ✓ 2006 Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out ✓ 2011 Another Earth ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ In collaboration with Brit Marling See also
- Cahill, Irish surname
References
- ^ a b c Smith, Nigel M (21 July 2011). "'Another Earth' Director Mike Cahill on Mining Sci-Fi from Loneliness". indieWire. http://www.indiewire.com/article/futures_mike_cahill/#. Retrieved 27 July 2011. "He went on to spent a year in Cuba making the documentary 'Boxers and Ballerinas' (with Marling) and moved to Los Angeles, where he worked on a number of documentaries (including 'Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man') and directed several episodes of MTV's Emmy award-winning series 'True Life.'"
- ^ "Mike Cahill". World Science Festival. 2011. http://worldsciencefestival.com/participants/mike_cahill. Retrieved 26 July 2011. "Mike Cahill was born July 5, 1979 in New Haven, CT."
- ^ "Interview: Another Earth's Brit Marling and Mike Cahill on Sidewalks TV". Sidewalks Entertainment. 20 July 2011. http://www.sidewalkstv.com/web/2011/07/interview-another-earths-brit-marling-and-mike-cahill-on-sidewalks-tv-2011-video/. Retrieved 31 July 2011. "Born in New Haven, CT, Mike Cahill at a young age would experiment with filmmaking on Fisher Price and VHS camcorders."
- ^ Overbye, Dennis (25 July 2011). "It's Fashionable to Take a Trip to Another Universe". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/science/26view.html. Retrieved 26 July 2011. "Ms. Marling, 27, and Mr. Cahill, 32, who were economics majors at Georgetown and met at a film festival there, said they didn’t have cosmology or science fiction in mind when they started this film."
- ^ "Movie by Georgetown Alumni Wins at Sundance Film Festival". Georgetown University. 2011. http://www.georgetown.edu/story/georgetown-alumni-sundance.html. Retrieved 27 July 2011. "'I think the bond that formed between us at Georgetown, during that amazing time when you are free to read, learn, think, follow inspiration, with no distractions, both gave birth to our art and collaboration and also gave us a kind of immunity to pressures of the outside world,' Marling says."
- ^ a b Robinson, Tasha (22 July 2011). "Interview: Mike Cahill". The A.V. Club. http://www.avclub.com/articles/mike-cahill,59293/. Retrieved 27 July 2011. "We were friends for many years. We went to school together at Georgetown."
- ^ Brown, Phil (27 July 2011). "Mike Cahill and Brit Marling". Toro. http://toromagazine.com/features/talking-to/ffabb66d-a0ba-4284-5d02-9e4bbdf66b6b/Mike-Cahill-and-Brit-Marling/. Retrieved 31 July 2011. "We met at Georgetown and started doing short films together back then. I was the director and she would act in them."
- ^ Skorbach, Kristina (25 July 2011). "Filmmakers Mike Cahill and Brit Marling Discuss Another Earth". The Epoch Times (New York). http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/arts-entertainment/filmmakers-mike-cahill-and-brit-marling-discuss-another-earth-59508.html. Retrieved 26 July 2011. "Cahill, an economics graduate from Georgetown University, felt that his break at National Geographic as a field producer and his later work in documentaries, 'absolutely, 100 percent' prepared him for Another Earth."
- ^ a b Stein, Ruthe (24 July 2011). "Parallel planets? 'Earth' may make mind run wild". San Francisco Chronicle. http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-07-24/entertainment/29801707_1_brit-marling-earth-first-feature-film. Retrieved 31 July 2011. "The movie was a bonanza for Mike Cahill, a National Geographic documentary filmmaker and video artist taking a stab at his first feature film."
- ^ "Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man – Production notes". Lions Gate Entertainment. 2006. http://www.lionsgatepublicity.com/epk/imyourman/docs/pro_notes.doc. Retrieved 31 July 2011. "Currently, Mike lives in Los Angeles, where he has worked on a number of music videos, television shows and films. This past year, he edited 'Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man' and 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out,' both featured at Sundance '06."
- ^ "Another Earth". Locarno International Film Festival. 2011. http://webfiles.pardo.ch/perm/3106/290/OC541221_P3106_149290.pdf. Retrieved 31 July 2011. "Cahill is currently developing several feature projects; among them is one on reincarnation and another about a fashion designer who lives at the bottom of the sea. Currently, Mike resides in Brooklyn, New York."
- ^ Mulligan, Jake (29 July 2011). "Speaking with the Team Behind 'Another Earth'". The Suffolk Voice. http://www.thesuffolkvoice.net/arts-entertainment/speaking-with-the-team-behind-another-earth-1.2536869?MMode=true. Retrieved 31 July 2011. "'It's interesting, it's really hard for me to pin down all my sources... there's this great filmmaker Julian Schnabel who I love...'"
- ^ Schartoff, Adam (25 July 2011). "Another Earth: Otherworldly Fiction". Tribeca Enterprises. Filmwax. http://www.tribecafilm.com/news-features/Another_Earth_Mike_Cahill.html. Retrieved 31 July 2011. "Krzysztof Kieslowski is one of my favorite filmmakers."
- ^ Zeitchik, Steven (21 July 2011). "'Another Earth' posits a parallel planet". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/21/entertainment/la-et-another-earth-20110721. Retrieved 31 July 2011. "As she struggled to make it as an actress, Marling would sometimes come home to the Silver Lake house she and Cahill shared with another aspiring director, Zal Batmanglij, to find Cahill stretched out on the floor listening to an audiobook by astronomer Richard Berendzen. She and Cahill were captivated by the locutions of the scientist, a protégé of Carl Sagan's who puts a poetic spin on astrophysical math."
- ^ Soistmann, Billy (25 July 2011). "Interview: Mike Cahill discusses [intertwining] science fiction and drama in Another Earth". Cinedork.com. http://cinedork.com/2011/07/25/interview-mike-cahill-discusses-intertwing-science-fiction-and-drama-in-another-earth/. Retrieved 31 July 2011. "No, I already was a lay person who was interested. I loved Carl Sagan, I love Isaac Asimov, there's this Dr. Richard Berendzen who's this astrophysicist who has this book called Human Kind and the Cosmos."
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