DIRECTORS

Mitch McCabe is a queer artist, filmmaker, and educator whose work spans narrative, nonfiction, and experimental film, mining themes of class, politics, and identity grounded in their native Midwest. Their short and feature films have screened at Sundance, True/False, New Directors/New Films, Doc Sheffield, Ann Arbor, Camden, Clermont-Ferrand, Margaret Mead, Winterhür, Edinburgh, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, and New York Film Festivals. Their feature HBO documentary YOUTH KNOWS NO PAIN screened at IDFA, Lincoln Center, and AFI Silverdocs. A 2019 Sarah Jacobson awardee and past fellow of MacDowell and the Flaherty Seminar, McCabe’s work has been supported by the Walker Art Center, MASS MoCA, NYSCA, Yaddo, LEF, Jerome, and Djerassi Foundations. They received their BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and their MFA from New York University. They live and work between Michigan and Ithaca, New York. In 2024 McCabe premiered 23 MILE at True/False Film Festival, going on to screen at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History (NYC premiere), and making its international premiere at Dokufest, where it won the TruthDox Award. They are currently working on the full multi-part feature film project of CIVIL WAR SURVEILLANCE POEMS and UNTITLED NORMAL PROJECT.