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Mike Cahill
Mike Cahill
	Mike Cahill, 2014
Born	July 5, 1979 (age 45); New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupations	Film director; screenwriter; film editor; film producer; cinematographer;
Notable work	Another Earth (2011)

Mike Cahill (born July 5, 1979) is an American filmmaker.

Early life and education

Mike Cahill was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on July 5, 1979.^[2] His first forays into filmmaking were with Fisher-Price and VHS camcorders when he was young.^[3] He gained his first credit as a documentarian at the age of 17, when he and a friend directed a film titled The Pocket, about D.C go-go music.^[4]

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,^[5]^[6]^[7] and the two began working on short films together where Marling would act and Cahill would direct.^[8]

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]^[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, co-written with Marling, Another Earth, about a parallel planet Earth, won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight Pictures.^[9] Variety reported: "[It] has been deemed one of the more highly praised pics of the fest as it received a standing ovation after the screening and strong word of mouth from buyers and festgoers." The distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures won distribution rights to the film in a deal worth $1.5 million to $2 million, beating out other distributors including Focus Features and the Weinstein Company.^[11]

Cahill's second feature film I Origins again won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, this time at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, making Cahill the only person to have received the award twice. The film was picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight.^[12]

In 2011, before the release of I Origins, a press release by Fox Searchlight stated that Cahill was working on a film about reincarnation and another about "a fashion designer who lives at the bottom of the sea."^[13] As of 2015 he is also working on a sequel of I Origins. "There's a sequel in the works. It's not scripted. We're not in production yet, but we set up at Fox Searchlight".^[14]

Starting in 2015, Cahill is an executive producer of the Syfy TV show The Magicians, and directed the pilot episode. He is also an executive producer on The Path, and directed the first two episodes.

Influences

Cahill has cited Julian Schnabel as a significant influence on his work.^[15] He considers Krzysztof Kieslowski one of his favorite filmmakers, specifically citing The Double Life of Véronique as having a profound impact on him.^[16] 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.^[17]^[18]

He has always admired science.^[19]

His favorite movie of all time is 2001: A Space Odyssey. "Because that movie, what it presents to you, can’t be articulated in any other form than as a movie," he said.^[20]

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	DP
2004	Boxers and Ballerinas	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
2005	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man	No	No	No	Yes	No
2006	Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out	No	No	No	Yes	No
2011	Another Earth	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2014	I Origins	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2021	Bliss	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film	Result
2005	Breckenridge Festival of Film	Best of the Fest (shared with Brit Marling)	Boxers and Ballerinas	Won
2005	Cinequest San Jose Film Festival	Director's Award (shared with Brit Marling)	Boxers and Ballerinas	Won
2011	Sundance Film Festival	Alfred P. Sloan Prize	Another Earth	Won
		Special Jury Prize		Won
		Grand Jury Prize		Nominated
	Scream Awards	Best Independent Movie		Nominated
	National Board of Review	Top Ten Independent Films		Won
	Locarno International Film Festival	Junior Jury Award - Special Mention		Won
	Locarno International Film Festival	Golden Leopard		Nominated
	Gotham Awards	Breakthrough Director Award		Nominated
	Deauville Film Festival	Grand Special Prize		Nominated
2012	Georgia Film Critics Association	Best Picture		Won
	Independent Spirit Awards	Best First Feature (shared with Hunter Gray, Brit Marling and Nick Shumaker)		Nominated
	Independent Spirit Awards	Best First Screenplay (shared with Brit Marling)		Nominated
	Golden Trailer Awards	Best Music		Won
	Golden Trailer Awards	Best Independent Poster		Nominated
	Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films	Best Writing (shared with Brit Marling)		Nominated
	Prism Awards	Feature Film - Mental Health		Nominated
2014	Sundance Film Festival	Alfred P. Sloan Prize	I Origins	Won
	Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival	Best North American Independent Film		Nominated
	Sitges Film Festival	Best Film		Won

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Smith, Nigel M (21 July 2011). "'Another Earth' Director Mike Cahill on Mining Sci-Fi from Loneliness". indieWire. Retrieved 27 July 2011. He went on to spent [sic] 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. 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. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. 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.
^ "Mike Cahill". The A.V. Club. 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
^ Overbye, Dennis (25 July 2011). "It's Fashionable to Take a Trip to Another Universe". The New York Times. 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. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. 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.
^ Robinson, Tasha (22 July 2011). "Interview: Mike Cahill". The A.V. Club. 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. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. 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.
^ ^a ^b Stein, Ruthe (24 July 2011). "Parallel planets? 'Earth' may make mind run wild". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 8, 2012. 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. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. 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.
^ Stewart, Andrew; Lodderhose, Diana (January 26, 2011). "First on Variety: Searchlight nabs 'Earth'". Variety.
^ "Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Awarded to I Origins at 2014 Sundance Film Festival | Sundance Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2014-02-10. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
^ "Another Earth" (PDF). Locarno International Film Festival. 2011. 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.
^ "I Origins Went To Insane Lengths To Get Its Science Right". io9.com. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
^ Mulligan, Jake (29 July 2011). "Speaking with the Team Behind 'Another Earth'". The Suffolk Voice. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. 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. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. 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. 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. Archived from the original on 15 August 2011. 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.
^ "Interview: I Origins Writer & Director Mike Cahill". www.themarysue.com. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
^ Heim, Joe (2014-08-01). "Director Mike Cahill on his favorite movie, faith, science and existential questions". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-06-11.

External links

Mike Cahill at IMDb

[indiewire-1] Smith, Nigel M (21 July 2011). "'Another Earth' Director Mike Cahill on Mining Sci-Fi from Loneliness". indieWire. Retrieved 27 July 2011. He went on to spent [sic] 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."

[worldscience-2] "Mike Cahill". World Science Festival. 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2011. Mike Cahill was born July 5, 1979 in New Haven, CT.

[sidewalks-3] "Interview: Another Earth's Brit Marling and Mike Cahill on Sidewalks TV". Sidewalks Entertainment. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. 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.

[4] "Mike Cahill". The A.V. Club. 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2014.

[5] Overbye, Dennis (25 July 2011). "It's Fashionable to Take a Trip to Another Universe". The New York Times. 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.

[6] "Movie by Georgetown Alumni Wins at Sundance Film Festival". Georgetown University. 2011. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. 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.

[avclub-7] Robinson, Tasha (22 July 2011). "Interview: Mike Cahill". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 27 July 2011. We were friends for many years. We went to school together at Georgetown.

[toro-8] Brown, Phil (27 July 2011). "Mike Cahill and Brit Marling". Toro. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. 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.

[sfgate-9] Stein, Ruthe (24 July 2011). "Parallel planets? 'Earth' may make mind run wild". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 8, 2012. 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.

[10] "Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man – Production notes". Lions Gate Entertainment. 2006. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. 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.

[first-11] Stewart, Andrew; Lodderhose, Diana (January 26, 2011). "First on Variety: Searchlight nabs 'Earth'". Variety.

[12] "Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Awarded to I Origins at 2014 Sundance Film Festival | Sundance Film Festival". Archived from the original on 2014-02-10. Retrieved 2014-02-10.

[13] "Another Earth" (PDF). Locarno International Film Festival. 2011. 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.

[14] "I Origins Went To Insane Lengths To Get Its Science Right". io9.com. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2015.

[15] Mulligan, Jake (29 July 2011). "Speaking with the Team Behind 'Another Earth'". The Suffolk Voice. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. 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...'

[16] Schartoff, Adam (25 July 2011). "Another Earth: Otherworldly Fiction". Tribeca Enterprises. Filmwax. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2011. Krzysztof Kieslowski is one of my favorite filmmakers.

[17] Zeitchik, Steven (21 July 2011). "'Another Earth' posits a parallel planet". The Los Angeles Times. 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.

[cinedork-18] Soistmann, Billy (25 July 2011). "Interview: Mike Cahill discusses [intertwining] science fiction and drama in Another Earth". Cinedork.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2011. 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.

[19] "Interview: I Origins Writer & Director Mike Cahill". www.themarysue.com. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 2018-06-11.

[20] Heim, Joe (2014-08-01). "Director Mike Cahill on his favorite movie, faith, science and existential questions". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-06-11.

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Mike Cahill (filmmaker)

Early life and education

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Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

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