
Mike Cuenca
Directing
Biography
Mike Cuenca is an award-winning DIY filmmaker whose work blends noir, horror, comedy, and punk-rock sensibilities. His films have screened at festivals internationally and include WATCH THEM COME BLOOD, BOYS ABOUT TOWN, I'LL BE AROUND, IN THE DITCH, and LIKE A DIRTY FRENCH NOVEL. Known for guerrilla-style production methods and a hands-on approach to filmmaking, Cuenca often serves as writer, director, editor, composer, and producer on his projects.
Known For

An author suffering from a sophomore slump hides in a motel room and faces his demons.
Odium for Ardor
A look at the lives of a large ensemble group of punks, mods, and rockers in the fictional town of Holwenstall. The series is a satirical portrayal of the counter-culture lifestyle, blending slapstick humor, punk ideology, underground music and coming of age melodrama to analyze the interlocking lives of its troubled and self-centered protagonists. Features strong language, nudity and violence.
Oblivion: The Series

Four friends (a background actor, a documentarian, a homeless musician, and a virgin) descend into a life-awakening 24 hours that involve excess drinking, prostitutes, a sage-like lounge singer and psychedelic drugs.
By the Wayside

A generation’s last encore. Follows nearly three dozen musicians, misfits, and wanderers as they unknowingly shape each other’s lives during one strange day at an alt-rock fest
I'll Be Around
Jerry Powell is a gas-huffing thief with memory distrust syndrome. At the brink of insanity, Powell finds himself chased by a pulpy gang of criminals as he attempts to deliver a mysterious package for a money-launder.
Jerry Powell & the Delusions of Grandeur

The follow-up to "By the Wayside". Eleven years later, Jim’s in over his head, Jane’s a fetish worker, Dio’s homeless with brain trauma, and Mars and Portia chase a lead that might connect them all. A screwball follow-up about love, survival, and the strange poetry of growing older.
In the Ditch

A group of road-tripping friends stumble upon a brothel with a very odd set of services.
Watch Them Come Blood

The second chapter of Boys About Town. Bobby’s leaning into the party life, Calvin’s wrecked a priceless scooter, and both are unraveling in their own ways. Meanwhile, Bobby’s comic book—illustrated by Jasper, Calvin’s supposed arch-nemesis—unfolds with flashbacks to their teenage years.
Boys About Town #2

During a surreal lockdown where an airborne plague topples bodies to the floor, two estranged twin brothers—one newly freed, the other who stole his name and fate—find themselves entangled in a feverish web of deceit. A cosplaying femme fatale, a seductive voice on the line, and a gang of trickster pookas stir the smoke and shadows of this campy pulp-noir.
Like a Dirty French Novel

The concluding adventures of Bobby Cardona and Calvin Nark.
Boys About Town #4

Made for the 48-Hour Guerrilla Film Challenge. The filmmakers received a genre and a line of dialogue and then had 48 hours to write, cast, shoot, edit, and score the short film. The genre was 'action' and the line they had to incorporate was: "When you look deeply, you will always find some value."
Sad Bastard Hero

Two music-obsessed misfits fumble through crushes, bad decisions, and restless nights in the city of Petropolis. Bobby’s shy, Calvin’s reckless—and growing up might ruin the one thing they’ve got: each other. The first chapter in a four-part, real-time journey through youth, lust, and loyalty.
Boys About Town #1

The further adventures of Bobby Cardona and Calvin Nark.