Directing
Mike Sargent
Place of birth
New York City, New York
Known for
Directing
Credits
3 titles
Mike Sargent is an award-winning cultural critic, filmmaker, journalist, and broadcaster whose work spans radio, television, film, and podcasting. He made his feature writing and directing debut with Personals (aka Hook’d Up), starring Malik Yoba, Stacey Dash, and Rhonda Ross, and featuring the film debut of comedian Jim Gaffigan. The Los Angeles Times called it “both entertaining and provocative,” and it premiered as the opening night selection at the Pan African Film Festival in 1999. His most recent film, From The Shadows, a supernatural sci-fi thriller starring Keith David and Oscar® nominee Bruce Davison, was released theatrically in 2023 and began streaming in 2024. From 2014 to 2016…
Known for
7.5In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.
Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
2022
Keith, a freelance journalist, knows sex sells. With the help of a personal ad, he decides to combine business and pleasure through a piece of freelance investigative reporting on the dating scene: 30 dates in 30 days, A Personal Journal. The research takes him beyond his wildest expectations. Keith's world begins to unravel when he meets a girl who sees right through him. Can his cool be liquefied by a funny thing called love? Is this true happiness or is it the prelude to a core meltdown?
Hook'd Up
1999
Film credits
Behind the camera
Keith, a freelance journalist, knows sex sells. With the help of a personal ad, he decides to combine business and pleasure through a piece of freelance investigative reporting on the dating scene: 30 dates in 30 days, A Personal Journal. The research takes him beyond his wildest expectations. Keith's world begins to unravel when he meets a girl who sees right through him. Can his cool be liquefied by a funny thing called love? Is this true happiness or is it the prelude to a core meltdown?
Hook'd Up
1999
Keith, a freelance journalist, knows sex sells. With the help of a personal ad, he decides to combine business and pleasure through a piece of freelance investigative reporting on the dating scene: 30 dates in 30 days, A Personal Journal. The research takes him beyond his wildest expectations. Keith's world begins to unravel when he meets a girl who sees right through him. Can his cool be liquefied by a funny thing called love? Is this true happiness or is it the prelude to a core meltdown?
Hook'd Up
1999