User:Tedklm201/Mike Ott

Mike Ott studied under Thom Andersen at the California Institute of the Arts where he received his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Film/Video. His latest film, Littlerock (2010), has screened at over 20 festivals internationally: Viennale, Vancouver, Torino, Cairo, Warsaw, Reykjavik, Mar Del Plata, Melbourne, etc. and has won numerous awards, including the Audience Award at the 2010 AFI Fest, a Gotham Award for "Best Film Not Playing in a Theater Near You," and in 2011, Mike won a Spirit Award for "Someone to Watch". He was also the recent recipient of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation/San Francisco Film Society grant to make his next film, Teenage Wasteland. Presently, Mike teaches film directing at the University of Southern California (USC).