- Born
- Birth nameMichael John McAllister
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Mike J. McAllister was born on October 21, 1988 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an editor and director, known for Mercer County, You're on the Air (2020), I Know We'll Meet Again... (2021) and I Never Saw Venice (2023).
- Frequently uses cross-cutting between scenes.
- Dark humor.
- Writes (and sometimes plays) characters with sarcastic dispositions.
- Often has the camera push in on a character or characters during a monologue or intimate conversation. Often has the camera pull back out to its original position as the monologue or dialogue ends.
- Is fascinated by the dark side of American suburbs and small towns.
- Graduated from La Roche College with a B.A. in Film/Digital Video in 2011 and took film courses in Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
- Has Tourette's syndrome.
- Though he took animation classes in college, he started producing more animated work in 2020 as a way to kill boredom during the start of the COVID 19 quarantine.
- The logo for his production company, Forty-Third Avenue Films, includes a strange drawing of a balloon with a skeletal face, similar to Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), little arms and two big protruding horns. There is no significance to this drawing, and was simply a random office doodle he did one day that he thought looked amusing. He will often hide it in his films, often on a characters T-shirt.
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