With more than twenty years of experience as a writer, director and cinematographer, Mikael Kreuzriegler has worked across multiple genres, including features, music videos and broadcast commercials.
His most recent film is the indie feature DEANY BEAN IS DEAD, an absurdist comedic romance currently streaming on Amazon Prime. Other films include the feature THE GODS OF GARBAGE, a supernatural amour fou based on Austrian dramatist Peter Turrini's scandalous debut play ROZZNJOGD (RAT CHASE) and the theatrical production HEDDA GABLER, as well as the short thriller THE INTRUDER which screened at film festivals worldwide.
His work first found attention by the American Academy of Television Arts with a Student Emmy for his short SWAY, and at the Talent Campus program of the Berlinale Film Festival. Mikael Kreuzriegler’s work often deals with protagonists torn between social norms and personal fulfillment, characters that are searching for meaning in their lives.
Since 2009, he has been teaching film directing and production as a full-time Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, a top-10 film school in the US, where until recently he has served as chair of the Department of Film & Television Production.
Born in Vienna, Austria, he earned a Masters Degree (Mag. phil.) in German Literature, Theater Studies, and Philosophy from the University of Vienna, and went on to complete an MFA in Directing at USC Film school in Los Angeles.