Prior to directing 18½ awardwinning filmmaker and author Dan Mirvish made the criticallyacclaimed features Bernard and Huey Between Us Open House and Omaha the movie Hes the author of The Cheerful Subversives Guide to Independent Filmmaking Focal PressRoutledge frequent film school guest lecturer and cofounder of the Slamdance Film Festival A graduate of USC film school Dan was also a US Senate speechwriter and journalist