Adam Egypt Mortimer is an American director, comic writer, and producer known for directing ''

Daniel Isn't Real ''Daniel Isn't Real'' is a 2019 American psychological horror film directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer, from a screenplay by Mortimer and Brian DeLeeuw, based upon the novel ''In This Way I Was Saved'' by DeLeeuw. It stars Miles Robbins, Patrick Sc ...

'' and ''Archenemy''.

Biography

Mortimer is from

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and graduated from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1995 as an English major. He was a musician before deciding to enter filmmaking. He began his filmmaking career in directing music videos, promos, and commercials for big companies, including a documentary series commissioned by Sprite named Jerk All-Stars. Mortimer was briefly in the comic scene by co-writing a 5-issue series named BALLISTIC with comic illustrator

Darick Robertson Darick W. Robertson is an American artist best known for his work as a comic book illustrator on series he co-created, notably ''Transmetropolitan'' (1997–2002) and '' The Boys'' (2006–2012; 2020). Robertson has illustrated hundreds of comic ...

in 2013. In 2015, he made his directorial debut with the horror movie ''Some Kind of Hate''. He directed a segment of the 2016 horror anthology film ''Holidays''. He co-wrote and directed the film ''

,'' which premiered at

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on March 29, 2019. The movie received generally favorable reviews from critics. Mortimer's most recent film, ''Archenemy'', premiered in 2020.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Mortimer was nominated for two

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in 2020 and 2016, respectively, in the "Best Limited Release" category. He won the Best Director award for ''

'' at the 2019

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is an annual film festival in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in 2016. With the 2020 edition of the festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, it was one of the partners in the Nightstre ...

. He also won the Best Director Choice prize at the 2019

Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (), or BiFan, is an international film festival held annually in July in Bucheon, South Korea. Prior to 2015, it was known as the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival or PiFan. Inaugurated ...

References

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