The Footsteps of Zeus was produced while trail runnning and hiking the trails in SE Tennessee. In this documentary, the filmmaker shares his theories while exploring the unknown. This film also shows very unique footage in front of the majestic backdrop of the Grand Tetons.
It's Not a Joking Matter was produced after returning to Glacier National Park in Montana after 24 years and noticing the dramatic effects of climate change on the region.
Award Winning Documentary Films:
The Footsteps of Zeus - feature documentary
Accolade Global Film Competition - June 2020 - Award of Recognition
Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift - April 2021
Pacific Beach International Film Festival - 2020
It's Not a Joking Matter - short documentary
San Diego Shorts - Spring 2022
Teleplays:
The Latchkey Ladies - one hour serial drama pilot for television.
This was my first screenplay. A great concept and in the process of being rewritten.
Logline - Breaking Bad meets Come Hell or Highwater as a group of female college basketball players and former WNBA stars
reunite taking drastic action to level the playing field.
Cassiopeia - one hour sci-fi drama pilot for television.
Dedicated to Mike's father Walter Kenneth Utt, an aeronautical engineer, who once had an article published in the Planetary Society
magazine regarding the interstellar human exploration of habitable Earth like planets.
Logline - Star Trek meets Louis & Clark with more realism and less fantasy as three generations find and colonize habitable Earth like
planets.