Daniel Millican
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Daniel Millican (born June 6, 1965) is an American writer/director in the film industry. His most recent film The Imposter Movie, starring Kevin Max of dcTalk[8] is due to be released in late 2008. His previous movie Striking Range starring Lou Diamond Phillips was released in 2006 by Sony Pictures. Millican's movies have played all around the world, distributed by companies Curb Entertainment, Artist View Entertainment, Sony Pictures, First Look Media and played on television, both cable and free tv like Lifetime Movie Network and Starz/Encore. Actors like Lou Diamond Phillips, Adam Baldwin, Sean Patrick Flannery, Mimi Rogers, Joey Lauren Adams, Yancy Butler and Tom Wright have starred in Millican's movies.
Biography
Early Life
Millican was born in Austin, Texas and moved up to the Dallas/Fort Worth area before graduating high school. He began his interest in filmmaking while in junior high, writing skits and stories. While a junior in high school, Millican helped a college friend with a communications project and fell in love with the industry. He began writing scripts almost immediately. Millican attended three different high schools (Dripping Springs, Austin Anderson, and graduated from Kennedale southeast of Fort Worth, Texas).
College
Millican attended and graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington from 1983-1989 with a Bachelors Degree in Communications with a major in Radio/TV and a double minor in English and Drama. While at UTA, he was a member of Chi Alpha and met his wife Jill in the organization. He also took film electives and completed several short films.
Career
After graduating, Millican went to work in broadcasting and video/film production, in both small and large venue. Later Millican would be the General Manager for a production facility, directing and producing. Millican has won over 30 international awards for his writing, directing, editing and producing of films, television, music videos, commercials and corporate films.
Daniel Millican made the leap from Commercials and Music Videos to features in 2000. With his first film The Keyman: Finding Redemption[1], Millican explored the issues of regret and abandonment on the streets and the destructive power of unforgiveness. That movie starred Adam Baldwin and is being released worldwide by Artistview Entertainment out of LA.
Millican's sophomore project was the film A Promise Kept starring Sean Patrick Flannery, Joey Lauren Adams, Jeff Speakman and Mimi Rogers (The Gunman for US video). This movie asks the question, "Do we take justice into our own hands, even for the most noble causes"? Worldwide sales were strong and the movie was released on video in the summer of 2004. Lifetime Movie Network premiered the film on television in January of 2005.
Striking Range is drawn from Millican's experiences working in the corporate environment. In addition to Lou Diamond Phillips, the movie also stars Yancy Butler, Glenn Moreshower and Jeff Speakman.
Millican has been compared to fellow Austin-native Robert Rodriguez-as far as the technical areas. Like Rodriguez, Millican writes, directs, produces and edits his own features and even occasionally composes and performs the musical score.
Millican lives with wife Jill, son Joseph, daughter Erin and the large Newfoundland dog.
Filmography
External Links
Official site The Imposter Movie official site
References
[9] The Imposter Movie [10] IMDB entry [11] News Article [12] Reviews [13] YouTube trailer of a Millican film [14] Foreign Listing of Millican Film [15]
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imposter_Movie
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0989649/
- ^ http://www.filmmakers.com/news/screenwriting/article_438.shtml
- ^ http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/25186/striking-range/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Iw6QXk6rw
- ^ http://www.nbc.gov.mv/app.php?action=films&do=detail&filmId=2991
- ^ http://www.dutchmanagementllc.com/
- ^ http://titletrakkmovienews.blogspot.com/2008/02/imposter-movie-stars-kevin-max.html
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imposter_Movie
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0989649/
- ^ http://www.filmmakers.com/news/screenwriting/article_438.shtml
- ^ http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/25186/striking-range/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0Iw6QXk6rw
- ^ http://www.nbc.gov.mv/app.php?action=films&do=detail&filmId=2991
- ^ http://www.dutchmanagementllc.com/