Michael Wohl

Producer, Director at Good Grief Films, LLC
Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Transmedia Producer, Author and Filmmaker

Los Angeles, California

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About Michael

Michael is an award-winning filmmaker with nearly two decades of experience including narrative, documentary, short form, features, and interactive/VR, and genres including comedy, drama, nonfiction and educational. His debut feature garnered the following praise:

“Crafted with assurance and panache!” - FILM THREAT
“An arresting debut… Wohl’s screen future looks bright” - VARIETY
“Refreshing funny and brilliant!” - NEW YORK MAGAZINE

He was co-founder and the original artistic director of Bare Witness Productions, the award-winning 20-year old improvisational filmmaking cooperative in San Francisco. His solo work has won awards and acknowledgments at many film festivals and competitions including the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle award.

Michael is also an accomplished producer and editor, He is co-founder of several production companies, including Talkingstick Pictures, where he and his team spent four years documenting Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation Agency; an ambitious and inspirational effort to overhaul agricultural practices for that country’s millions of rural smallholder farmers. This project was facilitated by The Synergos Institute and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Other clients include Apple, Adobe, Pearson Education.

He is perhaps most well known as one of the original designers of Apple’s Emmy award-winning software Final Cut Pro and had had the privilege of being involved in several related software development projects.

He has also maintained a parallel career as an author, professor, and educator, sharing his passion, enthusiasm, and sharply honed understanding of the art and craft of filmmaking to students at UCLA’s Graduate School of Film and Television and elsewhere. He is author of 15 books on the art and craft of filmmaking, which have sold tens of thousands of copies and have been translated into six languages, He is regularly invited to speak at film festivals and conferences including Sundance, SXSW, NAB, IBC, and many others, and his hundreds of hours of online training courses are among the highest rated at .

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Everything's Swell (2018)
Film Director
What Is the ATA? (2013)
Video (Documentary and Short) Director Add a Plot »
Clash of Colors: LA Riots of 1992 (2012)
Film (Documentary) Editor From producer David D. Kim, who experienced the riots first hand, Clash of Colors offers unprecedented access into the most overlooked history of the riots through never-before-seen footage and interviews. The narrative chronicles how the riots affected the Korean American community, while analyzing the complex socio-political events before, during, and after the racially-infused catastrophe which claimed 55 deaths, more than 4,000 injuries, and $1 billion in property damage. Clash of Colors draws on in-depth interviews from a balanced expert panel including Bill Boyarsky, former Los Angeles Times columnist, Ed Boyer, former Los Angeles Times Editor, Lou Cannon, author and former White House correspondent for The Washington Post, David Horowitz, activist and policy advocate, K W Lee, former Editor of Korea Times, radio personality Larry Elder, former California senator Tom Hayden, Councilman Tom Labonge, former council members Mike Hernandez and Mike Woo, UCLA professors Ivan Light, ... Written by Jeremy Curtis
Imperfectly (2011)
Film (Short, Comedy and Drama) Director Robert wants to find the perfect girlfriend. But it's not until he accepts his own faults that he can find the satisfaction he seeks.
Meet and Greet (2011)
Film (Short, Comedy and Romance) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director In this 12 minutes short comedy Amy's clock is ticking fast so she invites Sasha Rabinovitch, a nice Jewish boy, for a 'personal' donation. Only problem, she didn't clarify it with Beth, her life partner.
Per/Versions (2010)
Film (Comedy) Director Four movies in one; each one showing a different perspective on a single event.
The Home Front (2010)
Video (Short and Drama) Director Add a Plot »
Alt/Escape (2009)
Film (Drama) Director A psychological tailspin into dot-com mania and sex addiction.Alt/Escape is an unflinching and provocative look at the dark underside of dot-com mania. Set is Silicon Valley during the dizzying last days of 1999, as the internet bubble strained and bulged beyond all sense of reason and meaning, Alt/Escape follows a hapless software engineer, Trey Segal. Written by Anonymous
Exposure (2009)
Film (Short and Comedy) Editor Add a Plot »
Tales from the Catholic Church of Elvis! (2009)
Film (Comedy and Drama) Second Unit Director or Assistant Director The shocking true tales of a Catholic school girl in Las Vegas.
Four Weeks, Four Hours (2006)
Film (Adventure) Actor "Four Weeks, Four Hours" tells the stories of two women, each stranded in the desert on opposite sides of the globe. A photographer on assignment, is trapped across the border in a war-torn middle-eastern country when her plane crashes, killing the pilot. Her will to survive is tested as she treks back across the border on her own, haunted by the memory of the pilot. Halfway around the world, a Malibu socialite is lost in the desert of the American southwest when her husband dies of a heart attack after a car breakdown. Impatient for help and clueless about the ordeal before her, she walks back to town in the blistering heat of the noon-day sun. Both women are pushed to the limits of their endurance and beyond - the photographer over four weeks, the wife within four hours - as each story simultaneously unfolds. Their every choice makes the difference between life and death. Written by Alexis Van Hurkman
Artistic License (2005)
Film (Short and Comedy) Director Artist DAVID MILKEN is struggling to find beauty in the most unexpected of places; capturing portraits of average Americans at their most exhausted, their most frustrated, their most honest: David takes the I.D. photos at the Department of Motor Vehicles, and he takes his job very, very seriously. Against the odds of the vast government bureaucracy and the long lines of impatient drivers-to-be, David tries to make each snapshot a masterpiece. Today he has to take perhaps the most important picture of his career, that of his boss, BRIANCA VINCENT, and it isn't going to be pretty. Or is it? Written by Anonymous
IPO (2004)
Video (Drama) Actor San Francisco dot.comers hatch a plan to cash in on their employees' lives during the dotcom boom and bust.
Want (2003)
Film (Drama) Director Silicon Valley 1999: A new gold rush is sweeping through California. Everyone is sick with start-up fever; dreaming of the power and freedom of starting their own internet company. The din of advertising offering happiness through consumption is deafaning and sense and reason are quickly being discarded as relics of the 'old economy'. But for Trey Segal, that dream comes at a cost. Contrast in the glamour and wealth of this New Age, Trey's estranged father exposes him to the world of those being left behind. Torn between two worlds, Trey hides from his discomfort in an increasingly dangerous sexual addiction that threatens to destroy not only his new startup ideas, it may destroy his life. Written by Anonymous
I.P.O. (2003)
Film (Comedy and Drama) Actor Add a Plot »
Theatereality (1993)
Film (Documentary and Short) Director Shows the inside scoop on the infamous theater company that actually killed actors during the performances as high art. Features interviews with cast members as well as actual performance footage.