Jim Mickle

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Jim Mickle
File:Jim Mickle (cropped).jpg
Mickle in 2014
Born1979 (age 46–47)
Pottstown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupations
  • Director
  • screenwriter
Years active2006–present

Jim Mickle (born 1979)[1] is an American director and writer, known for such films as Mulberry Street, Stake Land, We Are What We Are and Cold in July. He also co-developed the SundanceTV series Hap and Leonard, and the Netflix series Sweet Tooth.

Early life

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Jim Mickle was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1979.[1][2] Mickle was inspired to become a director after he saw Army of Darkness.[1] He attended New York University and graduated in 2002. He worked as a production assistant and grip on a series of films by first-time directors who had not gone to film school. The experiences were frustrating for him, and he described the films as vanity projects.[3] Mickle prefers directing and editing to writing, and he is attracted to the flexibility and intensity of horror films.[4]

Career

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Mickle and Nick Damici met while working on a student thesis film in 2001. While there, they came up with the idea for a zombie film. This concept eventually morphed into their first collaboration, Mulberry Street, a horror film about gentrification in New York City.[3] Mickle's second film, Stake Land, was a New York Times Critics' Pick.[5] His 2013 film We Are What We Are was screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival[6] and in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[7] He directed the film adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's novel Cold in July, in which Michael C. Hall starred,[8][9] and has worked on Esperanza, the story of a fatal wildfire in southern California, adapted by Sean O'Keefe from a book by John N. Maclean.[10] In 2016 Mickle & Damici developed the TV series Hap and Leonard, based on Joe R. Lansdale's novels, with Mickle directing multiple episodes during the series' three seasons.

Awards

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Year Organization Award
2007 Toronto After Dark Film Festival After Dark Spirit Award[11]
2007 Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival Special mention[12]
2010 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award[13]
2011 Neuchâtel International Fantasy Film Festival Special mention[14]
2014 Sitges Film Festival Best director in Official Fantàstic Òrbita Category Awards for Cold in July

Filmography

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As director

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Title Year Metacritic Rotten Tomatoes Notes
Mulberry Street 2006 N/A 70%[15]
Stake Land 2010 66/100[16] 75%[17]
We Are What We Are 2013 71/100[18] 85%[19]
Cold in July 2014 73/100[20] 84%[21]
Hap and Leonard 2016–2018 73/100[22] 87%[23] TV series
In the Shadow of the Moon 2019 48/100[24] 59%[25]
Sweet Tooth 2021–2024 78/100[26] 92%[27] TV series
God Country TBA TBD TBD [28]

References

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