M. James McDonald
Drummond Island, MI
Michael is the Founder of True Myth Media, a Writer/Director, and a practicing Orthodox Christian. He has worked as an Assistant Director and Production Coordinator in the film industry, a Podcaster and Film Critic, and a teacher of film at performing arts camps in Grand Rapids, Michigan (his home), and in the surrounding Midwest Region for 10 years.
His interests outside of Film include, Lego, Tinkering, Reading, Re-Branding and Religion/History/Philosophy/Sociology (he considers this all one big lumpy subject).
Michael frequently takes up and sets down streaks of social media usage on the following platforms: Letterboxd, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and YouTube.
5 Films that Define Michael:
1) Andrei Rublev (1966) - Andrei Tarkovsky
2) Ben Hur (1959) - William Wyler
3) The Fountain (2006) - Darren Aronofsky
4) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Steven Spielberg
5) Beauty and the Beast (1946) - Jean Cocteau