1 Hour Consultation! Screenwriting, Producing, and More

For over 25 years, Michael Heagle has been helping emerging artists realize their vision. With experience in screenwriting, independent feature filmmaking, streaming series and more, Michael prides himself in being a sounding board, bullshit detector, cheerleader and professor all in one. Working backwards from your intended results, he will help you craft a plan to take your idea to the next stage.

Michael Heagle has been making movies since the fifth grade, back when you did it with Super8 that you had processed at KMart and projected on a bedsheet. He harkens from Mukwonago, Wisconsin, and attended the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, from which he holds a BFA in Film. While there, he shot a film with his buddy Mark Borchardt (AMERICAN MOVIE) called TOGA PARTY MASSACRE. Upon graduating, Michael tried his hand at a number of self-funded, independent projects, in which he filled the roles, variously, of screenwriter, director, production designer, editor, and visual effects supervisor. He also holds a Masters Degree in Animation and Visual Effects from Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Michael’s film work includes writing and directing the 16mm cult-movie feature GO TO HELL (released by Troma in 2003), and the zero-budget sci fi western PLANETFALL. He supervised the production of an ambitious student-made feature film called TERROR REPORT, shot in fourteen days as part of a summer workshop class. As a performer Michael has been seen in the Minneapolis-based live series ATOMIC SHOCK THEATER and is co-creator of the puppet monster sitcom series TRANSYLVANIA TELEVISION. In 2016 he served as Animatics Editor on the Amazon Studios production of the animated series Danger and Eggs.