Michael Korican has explored many facets of filmmaking over the last 40 years, from animation to documentary to fiction, using Super 8, 16mm (both black and white and colour) and digital video. He graduated from York University film school with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production, Special Honours, winning the Famous Players Scholarship in his last year. The Rolling Stone Book of Rock Video called Michael's feature, 'Recorded: Live!', "the first film about rock video". He has sat on the Board of Directors for the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) and both CineVic and MediaNet in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Michael Korican's Selected Filmography
- Fado March 2024, HD, iPhone, Colour, Documentary, 5:00 minutes
- The Mighty Pen September 2023, HD, Colour, Drama, 10:42 minutes (written and produced by Lynn Hale)
- Live to Eat! March 2023, HD, iPhone, Colour, Documentary, 5:00 minutes
- Turkey's Cooked November 2022, HD, Colour, Comedy, 4:55 minutes (directed by Sarah Nicole Faucher, cinematography by Brian Globus)
- Home Movie July 2022, Super-8, Colour, Documentary, 3:20 minutes
- The Zissou School for Young Girls June 2022, HD, Colour, Drama, 4:35 minutes
- Ashley by the Ocean August 2021, Super-8, Colour, Drama, 3:20 minutes
- 2020 Sad Santa, Mad Santa December 2020, HD, Colour, Musical Poem, 2:54 minutes
- 2020 Sad Santa, Mad Santa POEM December 2020, HD, Colour, Poem, 2:55 minutes
- #CormanChallenge April 2020, HD, iPhone, B&W, Drama, 1:26 minutes
- Maybe April 2020, HD, Colour, Documentary, 1:43 minutes
- No Signal June 2018, HD, B&W, Drama, 1:41 minutes
- Gratitude December 2017, HD, Colour, Drama, 5:15 minutes (photographed and edited by Jamie Franz Hoover)
- The Dolphins November 2017, HD, Colour and B&W, Drama, 6:06 minutes
- Fourth Floor Preview October 2017, HD, iPhone, Colour, Corporate, 2:01 minutes
- Good News! August 2017, HD, iPhone, Colour, Corporate, 0:41 minute
- 620 to QP: First Look June 2017, HD, iPhone, Colour, Corporate, 2:08 minutes
- Independent Schools and International Branch February-May 2017, HD, iPhone, Colour, Corporate, 2:52 minutes
- Surprise! March 2017, HD, iPhone, Colour, Corporate, 3:49 minutes
- White Becomes Her December 2016, HD, Colour, Drama, 5:30 minutes (written by Darlene Tait)
- Conflict Creates Refugees August 2016, HD, Animation, Colour, PSA, 0:57 minute
- Wind in the Pines September 2015, HD, Colour, Music Video, 4:21 minutes (music by Fans & Motor Supply Co., co-directed and edited by Arnold Lim)
- Largo (FilmSlam Version) March 2014, HD, B&W, Drama, 6:18 minutes (written by Michael Ian Farrell)
- The Big Picture January 2014, HD, Flash Animation, Colour, PSA, 0:56 minute
- A Pocket Full of Spiders (FilmSlam Version) March 2013, HD, Colour, Comedy, 8:28 minutes (written by Michael Ian Farrell)
- Keep On Rolling, Eh! February 2013, HD, Flash Animation, Colour, PSA, 0:35 minute
- Seeing is Feeling 2012, HD, Colour, Drama, 16:00 minutes
- Sad Santa, Glad Santa 2012, HD, Colour, Drama, 2:28 minutes
- MediaNet 30 November 2011, HD, Colour, Non-fiction, 3:45 minutes
- BC Education Plan October 2011, HD, Flash Animation, Colour, Corporate, 2:58 minutes
- Cowboys & Aliens (The Harper Version) June 2011, DV, Colour, Machinima, 1:15 minute
- Red Tape 2011, HD, Colour, Comedy, 5:19 minutes
- Suddenly... August 2010, DV, B&W, Music Video, 3:18 minutes
- Right2Copy April 2010, HD, Flash Animation, B&W, PSA, 2:08 minutes
- Timeline March 2010, HD, Flash Animation, Colour, Non-fiction, 2:47 minutes
- i luv spam (New & Improved Version) 2010, 16 mm, Machinima and DV, Colour, Fiction, 6 minutes
- dust2dust August 2009, Ultra 16mm, B&W and Colour, Drama, 4:46 minutes (music by Brad Pozen)
- So You Think You Can Rock? January 2009, Machinima and DV, Colour, Mashup, 5:11 minutes
- My City, My World: Haultain Commons September 2008, DV, Colour, Documentary, 8:40 minutes
- Not Pretty August 2008, DV, Colour, Music Video, 2:34 minutes (music by Tim Bracken)
- Ferris Wheel July 2008, DV, Colour, Experimental, 5:30 minutes
- Dancing Spies in Chinatown June 2008, DV, Colour, Dance for the Camera, 1:00 minute (silent)
- Light Bulbs May 2008, DV, Colour, Commercial, 0:50 minute
- At the Mirror May 2008, DV, Colour, Dance for the Camera, 1:00 minute
- Telephone Booth April 2008, Finished on DV; shot on 16 mm, B&W, Experimental, 5:15 minutes (silent)
- Awoken March 2008, DV, Colour, Experimental, 9:00 minutes
- No Substitutions February 2008, DV, Colour, Machinima, 1:53 minute (audio from 'Five Easy Pieces')
- Re-Dead January 2008, DV, Colour, Fiction, 6:18 minutes (script by Ana de Lara, edited by Bryan Skinner)
- Victoria 2007, DV, Colour, Music Video, 3 minutes (music by Britt Small)
- Shadows 2007, DV, Colour, Dance for the Camera, 4:45 minutes
- Sunday Morning 2007, DV, Colour, Dance for the Camera, 4 minutes
- Iago 2007, Finished on DV; shot on Super-8, Colour, Fiction, 4 minutes
- No Better Place 2007, DV, Colour, Documentary, 12 minutes
- Victoria Housing 2007, DV, Colour, Documentary, 4 minutes
- Illegal Alien 2007, DV, Colour, Machinima, 6 minutes (script by Melissa de Haan)
- i luv spam (Bravo Version) 2006, 16 mm, Machinima and DV, Colour, Fiction, 6 minutes
- Close to Dawn 2006, DV, Colour, Machinima Music Video, 3:30 minutes (music by Jay Dunphy)
- Imagine a World 2006, DV, Colour, Machinima, 0:30 minutes
- Can Zombies Have Sex? 2005, DV, Colour, Fiction, 6 minutes
- Jackhammer Man 2005, DV, Colour, Music Video, 5 minutes (music by David P. Smith, edited by Rob Keur)
- Thankful 2004, DV, Colour, Documentary, 44 minutes (music by Robert Mari)
- How Not to Get a Mammogram 2004, DV, Colour, Mocumentary, 4 minutes (photographed by Chris Duncan, music by Robert Mari)
- Alpbach 1986, 16 mm, B&W, Documentary, 8 minutes (music by Greg Diakun)
- A Night in my Life 1982, Super 8, Colour, Animation, 2 minutes
- Recorded: Live! 1982, 16 mm, B&W, Fiction, 82 minutes (with co-creators Andrew Rowsome and Almerinda Travassos)
- Love Means Never Having to Say You're Soya 1981, 16 mm, Colour, Fiction, 26 minutes (with co-creators Jeff Shnier and Robert Ryan) Student Production
- Eating Out 1980, 16 mm, Colour, Fiction, 7 minutes, Student Production
- Keith Catleugh, Hatter 1980, 16 mm, B&W, Documentary, 5 minutes (photographed by Jeff Shnier) Student Production
- The Guilty 1979, Super 8, Colour, Fiction, 4 minutes
- Retinal Nudes 1979, Super 8, Colour, Animation, 4 minutes
- Z 1978, 16 mm, Colour, Animation, 1 minute (music by Napoleon Brousseau)
Selected Screenings
- Fado
29 Takes Online Cell Phone Challenge, YouTube, March 29-31, 2024 - The Mighty Pen
CineVic Showcase at the Victoria Film Festival, Roxy Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, February 10, 2024 - Turkey's Cooked
Short Circuit Pacific Rim Film Festival, Vic Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, May 13, 2023
Qualicum Beach Film Festival, Civic Centre, Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, March 12, 2023 - Live to Eat!
29 Takes Cell Phone Challenge, Roxy Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, March 26, 2023 - The Zissou School for Young Girls
CineVic Showcase at the Victoria Film Festival, Roxy Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, February 12, 2023
Capital 6 Theatres, Victoria, British Columbia, February 5, 2023 - Home Movie
One Take Super 8 Event, Metro Studio Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, October 14-15, 2022 - Ashley by the Ocean
One Take Super 8 Event, Alix Goolden Performance Hall, Victoria, British Columbia, October 23, 2021 - The Dolphins
Digital Shift Online Cinema, Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA), October 8-14, 2020
Alan Smithee Awards, Victoria Event Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, February 1, 2018 - Sad Santa, Glad Santa
CineVic's Film Festivus, Northern Quarter, Victoria, British Columbia, December 1, 2019
CineVic, Victoria, British Columbia, December 19, 2014
CineVic's Film Festivus, Victoria, British Columbia, December 22, 2011 - Gratitude
CineVic's Film Festivus, Victoria, British Columbia, December 1, 2017 - White Becomes Her
CineVic's Film Festivus, Victoria, British Columbia, December 1, 2016 - Wind in the Pines
CineVic Reel to Reel Grand Finale, Victoria, British Columbia, September 16, 2015 - How Not to Get a Mammogram
The Merridale Showdown Film Fest, Victoria Event Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, August 17, 2014
Local Visions Comedy, CineVic, Victoria, British Columbia, May 28, 2008
Fall Film Frenzy, Sugar, Victoria, British Columbia, September 2006
Faucet Media Arts Festival, Sackville, New Brunswick, August 2005
CineVic, Victoria, British Columbia, October 2004
CineVic Scrapshots, Victoria, British Columbia, April 2004 - Largo (FilmSlam Version)
CineVic FilmSlam 2014, Vic Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, March 30, 2014 - A Pocket Full of Spiders (FilmSlam Version)
Showdown Film Festival, Victoria Event Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, May 19, 2013
CineVic FilmSlam Redux, Vic Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, March 31, 2013 - Suddenly...
Rifflandia Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, September 15-16, 2012
CineVic Reel to Reel 2010, Victoria, British Columbia, September 16, 2010 - Not Pretty
Rifflandia Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, September 15-16, 2012
CineVic Reel to Reel 2008, Victoria, British Columbia, September 14, 2008 - Seeing is Feeling
Short Circuit Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, April 28, 2012 - Cowboys & Aliens (The Harper Version)
Winnipeg Film Group 90 Second Quickie Filmmaking Challenge, Winnipeg Cinematheque, Winnipeg, Manitoba, July 27, 2011 - Red Tape
CineVic's 20th Anniversary Screening, Victoria, British Columbia, March 5, 2011 - My City, My World: Haultain Commons
MediaNet's Celebration of BC Video, Victoria, British Columbia, February 16, 2011
Open Cinema: An Evening of Environmental Films, Victoria, British Columbia, October 9, 2008 - i luv spam (New & Improved Version)
Fringe on Film 2010, Victoria, British Columbia, August 31, 2010 - Timeline
Ministry of Education Deputy Minister's Branch Video Challenge 2010, Victoria, British Columbia, April 14, 2010 - Re-Dead
Fringe on Film 2009, Victoria, British Columbia, September 1, 2009
CineVic Film Slam 2008, Victoria, British Columbia, January 27, 2008 - Light Bulbs
New Employee Orientation, Ministry of Education, Victoria, British Columbia, October 22, 2008
Where Ideas Work Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, June 3, 2008 - Ferris Wheel
Unreal Victoria, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, August 7 -13, 2008 - i luv spam (Bravo Version)
Local Visions Animation, CineVic, Victoria, British Columbia, July 16, 2008
Victoria Film Festival, British Columbia, February 6, 2008 - Z
MediaNet's One Minute Film Challenge, the Project Space, Victoria, British Columbia, June 4, 2008
Avant-Garde: A Celebration of Celluloid Experimentation, Victoria, British Columbia, June, 2004
National Film Theatre, Kingston, Ontario, February 28, 1983
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, January 20, 1981
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, February 21, 1979
Artspace, Toronto, Ontario, November 1978
Sir Sandford Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario, October 31, 1978 - Telephone Booth
Images Alone, Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria Phantom Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, May 23-27, 2008 - No Substitutions
MediaNet's One Minute Film Challenge, the Project Space, Victoria, British Columbia, March 8, 2008 - No Better Place
MediaNet's 25th Anniversary Screening, Victoria, British Columbia, November 15, 2007
CBC Exposure, Canada, July 25, 2007 - February 2008 - Victoria
CineVic Reel to Reel 2007, Victoria, British Columbia, September 16, 2007 - Iago
InfinEight: Super 8 Celebration, Victoria, British Columbia, August 17, 2007 - Shadows
Dance for the Camera 2007, Victoria, British Columbia, August 11, 2007 - Victoria Housing
EdgeCasting, Victoria, British Columbia, February 10, 2007 - Illegal Alien
CineVic Film Slam 2007, Victoria, British Columbia, January 28, 2007 - Close to Dawn
CineVic Reel to Reel 2006, Victoria, British Columbia, September 17, 2006 - Jackhammer Man
Espresso Bongo, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, British Columbia, August 30, 2006
Fringe on Film, Victoria, British Columbia, August 2005
CineVic Reel to Reel, Victoria, British Columbia, August 2005 - Can Zombies Have Sex?
CineVic Rough Cuts, Victoria, British Columbia, April 11, 2006 - Not Dead, Not Alive
CineVic One Shot Wonders, Victoria, British Columbia, November 2005 - Alpbach
CineVic, Victoria, British Columbia, December 2004 - Thankful
CineVic, Victoria, British Columbia, October 2004 - Keith Catleugh, Hatter
Ottavio's, Victoria, British Columbia, August 2004
CFMDC Under the Stars, Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario, July 12, 1987
1980 Canadian Student Film Festival, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, November 14, 1980
C.N.E. Carlsberg Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, July 1980 - Recorded: Live!
Night Flight, USA Networks, 1983
The Canadian Images Film Festival, Peterborough, Ontario, March 17, 1983
Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Ontario, November 4, 1982 - A Night in my Life
The Toronto Super Eight Film Festival, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario, June 5, 1982 - Love Means Never Having to Say You're Soya
Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Ontario, 1981 - The Guilty
York Fine Arts at The Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, April 21, 1979 - Retinal Nudes
York Fine Arts at The Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, April 21, 1979
Selected Prizes and Awards
- Turkey's Cooked
Film Basement LA International Film Festival 2023, Best Comedy, Narrative Short, Los Angeles, California, USA, November 8, 2023 - Wind in the Pines
CineVic Reel to Reel Grand Finale Audience Award, Second Place, Victoria, British Columbia, September 16, 2015 - Largo
CineVic Film Slam 2014 Best Sound, Victoria, British Columbia, March 30, 2014 - Timeline
EDward Winner at the Ministry of Education Deputy Minister's Branch Video Challenge 2010, Victoria, British Columbia, April 14, 2010 - dust2dust
CineVic Auteur Series Production Grant, Victoria, British Columbia, April 2009 - My City, My World: Haultain Commons
Open Cinema Audience Award, Victoria, British Columbia, October 9, 2008 - Light Bulbs
Winner of the Where Ideas Work Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, July 2008 - Begbie's Ghost
Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund Development Grant, BC Film Development Grant, June 2008 - Re-Dead
CineVic Film Slam Best Director; Audience Award, Second Place (tie), Victoria, British Columbia, January 2008 - Scratch Directed by Scott Amos, Produced by Michael Korican
Bravo!FACT Production Grant, Canada, June 2007 - i luv spam (Bravo Version)
Bravo!FACT Production Grant, Canada, August 2006 - Not Dead, Not Alive
CineVic One Shot Wonders Audience Award, Second Place, Victoria, British Columbia, November 2005 - Jackhammer Man
CineVic Reel to Reel Audience Award, Second Place, Victoria, British Columbia, August 2005 - How Not to Get a Mammogram
CineVic Scrapshots Audience Award, Second Place, Victoria, British Columbia, April 2004 - Alpbach
LIFT Production Grant, Toronto, Ontario, February 1984 - Famous Players Scholarship
York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1981 - Keith Catleugh, Hatter
Honourable Mention, Documentary, C.N.E. Carlsberg Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, 1980