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Dan Mirvish is a director, screenwriter, producer and author. His award-winning Watergate thriller/comedy film 18½ played in 21 film festivals on 4 continents, got a 60-city theatrical release in the U.S. and digital release throughout North America, the UK and Ireland.  (Montclair State alumni Monica Dabrowski was the Production Designer and Jeff Pineda a Production Assistant.) 

Prior to that, Dan directed the film Bernard and Huey, scripted by Oscar/Pulitzer-winner Jules Feiffer, and starring Oscar-winner Jim Rash and David Koechner which screened in over 30 film festivals on 5 continents before its theatrical and digital release.

Dan is the author of the bestselling non-fiction book The Cheerful Subversive's Guide to Independent Filmmaking from Focal Press/Routledge. His film Between Us, starring David Harbour, Julia Stiles and Taye Diggs, played in 23 festivals in 7 countries, and got a 50+ city theatrical release in the US, and sold to 145 countries, plus screening on Netflix, Showtime and Starz. Dan was mentored by Robert Altman on his first film, Omaha (the movie), which led him to co-found the upstart Slamdance Film Festival. His film Open House prompted the Academy Awards to controversially rewrite their rules on the Best Original Musical category.