Writer | Director

Mischa has been making films since high school, when he got his hands on a Super-8 camera and started shooting story ideas he'd been writing since he was a kid. He learned to make films the old fashioned way: reading every screenplay he could get his hands on, borrowing equipment from freelance jobs, and bribing friends to spend their weekends on makeshift sets.

Never afraid to simply pick up a camera and shoot whatever he can, his films range in size, scope and style but always focus on telling original, layered, character-driven stories. 

He is an award-winning writer and director whose debut feature film, The Kill Hole, starred Chadwick Boseman in an early breakout role alongside Billy Zane and Tory Kittles. It won awards across the festival circuit before landing in theaters and on digital platforms.  

He’s also a two-time finalist at the Austin Film Festival’s screenplay competition and was the winner of its pitch competition for his surreal stoner musical comedy, Black Cabbie, inspired by the years he spent as a taxi driver.

His films have played in festivals around the country, including the Austin, Santa Barbara and American Black Film Festivals.

He’s currently working on an anthology of short films based in the Pacific Northwest.