BIO
Michael Glover Smith is a Chicago-based filmmaker, author, and college professor. His most recent feature, the award-winning RELATIVE, stars Wendy Robie (TWIN PEAKS) and is distributed by Music Box Films. It was the 23rd highest-grossing movie in the U.S. during its first week in release in 2022. His other work includes MERCURY IN RETROGRADE (2017), starring French film icon Roxane Mesquida (FAT GIRL), RENDEZVOUS IN CHICAGO (2018), and COOL APOCALYPSE (2015). His first book, FLICKERING EMPIRE: HOW CHICAGO INVENTED THE U.S. FILM INDUSTRY (Columbia University Press, 2015), co-written with Adam Selzer, is an acclaimed non-fiction study of film production in Chicago during the silent-movie era. His second book, BOB DYLAN AS FILMMAKER: NO TIME TO THINK, will be published by McNidder & Grace in 2026.