Michael Reed McLaughlin
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
After a near death experience in his late twenties, when his sports car
skidded off a cliff on Mulholland Highway, he decided to quit what he
was doing and go to film school. While a student, his first short film,
The Fourth Trimester - set in a not-too-distant future in which the
Constitution has redefined the right to life as beginning 20 years
after conception- won him a Student Emmy for the best dramatic short
for his region.
Just before graduating, he took a small crew to the Bahamas to make his first feature, Of Love & Betrayal, which was shot on a 76' schooner and filmed in 35mm Cinemascope. The project was tied up with legal problems and then shelved until 2010, when he was finally able to release a director's cut that he was happy with.
Michael is also the author of several high fantasy novels, including the Hero Sagas trilogy penned under the nom de plume of Sterling Drake.
Just before graduating, he took a small crew to the Bahamas to make his first feature, Of Love & Betrayal, which was shot on a 76' schooner and filmed in 35mm Cinemascope. The project was tied up with legal problems and then shelved until 2010, when he was finally able to release a director's cut that he was happy with.
Michael is also the author of several high fantasy novels, including the Hero Sagas trilogy penned under the nom de plume of Sterling Drake.
