Biography
An artist with an original voice and an unapologetic flair for thriller and horror storytelling, Mia’Kate Russell’s directorial work is marked as much by darkness as it is at times a sly, even camp, humour. Mia’Kate Russell has the gift of creating emotionally impactful stories that challenges the audience to examine their own behavior as her complex and flawed characters are forced to confront the consequences of their own. Mia is committed to making wickedly entertaining character-based genre films with authenticity and a social conscience.
As a writer and director, her short films have won more than 30 awards and screened at prestigious festivals all around the world including SITGES, Screamfest and Shriekfest. Her first short film Auditioning Fanny, starring Sam Johnson, won the Best Short Film award at the Phenom Film Festival (2012), her next short Swallow won multiple awards for FX Makeup and had the honour of being nominated for Best Picture at SITGES (2014), Death By Muff wa...