Michael Duignan
Michael Duignan makes comedy with sharp performances, big character energy and a bent sense of reality.
His feature debut The Paragon premiered at Rotterdam, screened internationally at Sydney, Fantasia and beyond, then landed a US theatrical release. A deadpan sci-fi revenge comedy about psychic training, cosmic destiny and a silver Toyota Corolla, the film was named by The New York Times as one of “Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now,” earned great reviews from RogerEbert.com and Film Threat, and connected with the kind of Letterboxd obsessive who write that the film is “ a psychotropic transmission from the tenth dimension beamed into our bland reality to remind us of who we truly are..."
Michael brings that same comic timing, performance focus and oddball visual imagination to everything he does; finding the joke, sharpening the character, and making the weird feel instantly watchable.