When Michael Miner isn't writing screenplays he's
looking at nature through a field camera. Puako, Hawaii,
April 29, 2005. Photo by Rudolf Helder
Michael Miner received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English
Literature and Theater, and a Master of Fine Arts degree at
the University of California, Los Angeles, where he wrote
and directed LABYRINTHS, which won a Focus and Cine Eagle
Award, ALIAS JANE DOE, which was exhibited at Deauville and
Bilbao, and COSMOGRAPHIA, which was exhibited at Filmex.
While at UCLA he was also a cinematographer of ten student
films including SCARRED, whic was exhibited commercially
and FOOL'S DANCE, which was produced by public television.
Mr. Miner's professional career includes time as a director
of photography and director/camerman of twenty music
videos. As co-writer of ROBOCOP, the very successful action
story about the part man/part machine law enforcer of the
future, Mr. Miner received the SATURN AWARD for Best
Science Fiction Screenplay and a nomination for Best
Screenplay by the Mystery Writers of America. He is also
the co-writer of the pilot for ROBOCOP: THE TELEVISION
SHOW, the sequel to ANACONDA, the action/adventure
franchise featuring humans battling mythic predators and
LAWNMOWERMAN II, the science fiction sequel to the virtual
reality story about an idiot savant trapped in a computer
program.
Mr. Miner made his debut as a writer/director with DEADLY
WEAPON, a drama about a teenager who finds a prototype Star
Wars weapon and uses it to take a desert town hostage. Most
recently, he directed THE BOOK OF STARS, magic realism
about the troubled relationship between two sisters and the
memory book one of them keeps that has the power to
anticipate future events. Mr. Miner discovered the script
while teaching a writing class at the Maine Photographic
Workshops.
Mr. Miner has written screenplays for Oliver Stone,
Sylvester Stallone and Michael Douglas. He is currently
developing a feature film based on the true story of a
Franciscan priest assigned to a ghetto in Kingston,
Jamaica, a documentary on the history of jailhouse
informants and perjured testimony, an action/thriller about
a robbery during the Los Angeles Marathon and a futuristic
thriller about genetic programming. He has taught writing
seminars at the Maine Photographic Workshop, the University
of Hawaii, the Southeastern Media Institute and California
State University at Los Angeles.