Email:
michael.nirenberg@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.diagnosistrauma.com
Writer/Director Mike Nirenberg, of the award-winning short film Diagnosis Trauma, and author of the screenplays Zygote, Woof!, 5:34 and others, has taken a unique path to becoming a filmmaker--through medical school.
Nirenberg, a Toronto native now living in the Chicago area, trained as a physician and surgeon and continues to practice medicine while writing screenplays and making movies. His stories have a unique and realistic perspective and he succeeds in bringing his unique viewpoint to his films. He is a clinical residency instructor, has lectured to his medical association and published journal articles on surgery and forensic medicine.
Diagnosis Trauma has received positive recognition at a variety of regional film festivals. It won Silver at the 36th Annual WorldFest in Houston, 2nd Place at the 2003 First Glance Film Festival in Philadelphia, and received the Best Comedy Award and the Audience Award at the 2003 IFP Flyover Film Festival in Chicago.
Nirenberg's feature screenplay Zygote was named a Semi-Finalist in the Texas Film Institute’s script contest. It also placed in the Top 30 in the American Accolades screenplay contest, placed in the Top 10 Percent with the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship, and the Top 10 Percent of the 750 screenplays reviewed by the Tribeca/Sloan Film Program, a competition from Robert DeNiro's Tribeca Film Institute.
(Psychological Thriller)
A wounded cop afflicted with amnesia has six hours to save his family and restore his soul.
*co-written by GMTW member
Peter Devonald 
(Psychological Thriller)
When
a web designer becomes obsessed with a young woman on a 24/7 webcam
site he created, he fears that she’s going to be murdered – live,
online! Or is she? When it comes to watching, are you really seeing what
you think you are? Voyeur Inc. – a film where
trusting your eyes could be deadly.
*co-written by GMTW
member Peter Devonald
(Comedy)
A pampered pooch accidentally gets switched with a white-trash mutt, only to discover his real family and find love.
(Psychological Thriller)
A researcher discovers that genes store memories and fears that she may be destined to murder.
