Biography

Bruce's most recent film (Neolovismo) premiered at the prestigious Pesaro International Film Festival in Northern Italy. In November 2020 it was nominated for best film and screenplay at the Milan International Film Festival and most recently won the Innovative Storytelling Award at the 25th Kansas City Film Festival International.

Mike Bruce is an American film director, writer and producer. Born and raised in Northern California, Bruce began his career playing bass for the psychedelic rock band Low Flying Owls. In 2005 he moved to Los Angeles to further his interest in film and made his first feature "The Legend of God's Gun" as described in Popmatters - "rips through your brain and severs your synapses, shredding what you know about film and replacing it with a brand new celluloid language". His second film, 'Treasure of the Black Jaguar', was received with critical acclaim winning the Distribution Award at the Raindance Film Festival and Best Cinematography Award at First Glance Film Festival Hollywood. The Hollywood Reporter described Treasure as a "Well-made adventure set in Sergio Leone-type terrain and blasted with Robert Rodriguez-ish firepower...a delirious descent into a heart-of-darkness, where survival instincts and base greed trump basic goodness and civilized values."

The Raindance Film Festival listed Bruce as one of the top ten American filmmakers to watch for in 2011. Bruce's video for Noel Gallagher's 'AKA...What a Life!' made the Top 20 Most Awesome Videos of 2011 on yahoo which was the finale to "the most successful music video trilogy of all time" according to Entertainment Weekly.

- IMDb mini biography by: Mary Patton