Mishu Hilmy

Biography

Mishu currently writes, directs, and produces films of various lengths in Chicago; where the past winters have been so cold the only imaginable reason he has stayed must be undefeatable self-loathing. He has previously lived in New York (Brooklyn and Binghamton), New Orleans, and Whitewater Wisconsin—where you can go to find cheese hats, Miller High Life, and rock bottom. Prior to filmmaking, he had spent the past decade desperately seeking validation in a profoundly unsuccessful career in the...