MICHAEL LANGAN is an American experimental filmmaker. His films have screened at over a hundred film festivals worldwide garnering top awards, including a Student Academy Award nomination for "Doxology." Langan's innovation at the boundary of live action and animation has been praised as "confounding and fascinating" by The New York Times and "inventive" by The Atlantic. In 2010 he was named an "IFC Icon" and featured as one of "10 animators poised to become household names" by Variety.

AWARDS

2009
Sidewalk Film Festival – Best Animated Short
Kalamazoo Animation Festival International – Best Student Film
Wallabout Film Festival – Best Fiction Film

2008
Ann Arbor Film Festival – Most Promising Filmmaker / Opening Film
Slamdance Film Festival – Best Experimental Short
Student Academy Awards – Alternative Film Nominee
Crossroads Film Festival – Best Experimental Film
San Francisco Frozen Film Festival – Best Student Director
Black Maria Film & Video Festival – Director's Choice Award
ASIFA-East Animation Festival – Honorable Mention

2007
Ottawa International Animation Festival – Best Undergraduate Animation
FilmGate International Student Film Festival – Best Animation & Experimental
NextFrame Touring Festival of International Student Film & Video – 2nd Place, Experimental
San Francisco Shorts Film Festival – Grand Jury Special Recognition Award
Fort Lauderdale Int'l Film Festival Int’l Collegiate Competition – 4th Place, Animation

VISITING ARTIST

2011
Harvard University / Cambridge, MA

2010
Massachusetts College of Art and Design / Boston, MA (guest critic)
Rhode Island School of Design / Providence, RI
Johnson and Wales University / Providence, RI
University of Michigan School of Art and Design / Ann Arbor, MI
AnImpact Changwon / Changwon, South Korea (workshop & retrospective)
Massachusetts College of Art and Design / Boston, MA
Eastern Michigan University / Ypsilanti, MI

2009
Academy of Art University / San Francisco, CA
Maryland Film Festival / Baltimore, MD (panelist)

EDUCATION

2007
Rhode Island School of Design / Providence, RI
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Film / Animation / Video