Talent Guide

Mike Miller

  • Discipline:Director, Producer, Writer
  • Program Year:Producing Lab 2007, Screenwriting Lab 2007

Bio

After studying marketing at University Technology Sydney and fine art at East Sydney Art College, Mike Miller became an award-winning advertising Art Director and Creative Director in Sydney (McCann Erickson, Young & Rubicam) and New York (Young & Rubicam). He left Young & Rubicam in New York to start Silverlining Films in Sydney, and began the next stage of his career as a writer/director/DP/producer. Miller has consistently won awards for his work, including a Gold Lion at Cannes Film Festival for advertising, Silver World Medals at New York Festivals for directing, Gold at Australian Cinematographers Society (NSW) for cinematography, and Slamdance for screenplay. Silverlining was development partner and co-production company on the feature film The Delinquents, starring Kylie Minogue and Charlie Schlatter. Miller was co-writer, DP, producer, and director on the short film ‘OOPS’ which premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. ‘OOPS’ sold successfully and screened world wide including the Sci-Fi Channel, Atom, and Canal+. Miller is a two-time Film Independent Fellow of the 2007 Screenwriters Lab and the 2007 Producers Lab. Also in development are a series of documentaries, a thriller titled The Cobbler’s Apprentice, and a feature documentary. –

Current Project

Cleave (Narrative Feature)

Logline

Kidnapped by her father when she was seven years old and brought up as a boy so they could hide, a young artist goes looking for her estranged father at the edge of civilization, the Australian Outback, to uncover the truth about their troubled family history.