
Directing
Mike Cuenca
Born 1983-09-29 · Westminster, California, US
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.
Acting credits
NRAn author suffering from a sophomore slump hides in a motel room and faces his demons.
Odium for Ardor
2026
NRA group of road-tripping friends stumble upon a brothel with a very odd set of services.
Watch Them Come Blood
2024
NRPeter Salem, a former Wall Street executive recently released from prison, returns to his ex-wife and children in the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas. Soon after he arrives, the town's electricity and power are shut off, and there is no way to communicate with authorities outside of town. The town's militant past is reawakened and forces coalesce to protect citizens from an unseen enemy. The town's fear leads to the creation of a posse of gunmen, resulting in torture, illegal searches and eventually, murder, against which Salem must stand.
Bunker Hill
2008
NRFour 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
2012
NRA 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
2020
NRMade 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
2013
Behind the camera
NRAn author suffering from a sophomore slump hides in a motel room and faces his demons.
Odium for Ardor
2026
NRAn author suffering from a sophomore slump hides in a motel room and faces his demons.
Odium for Ardor
2026
10.0Two 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
2025
10.0Two 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
2025
3.0During 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
2021
3.0During 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
2021
NRA group of road-tripping friends stumble upon a brothel with a very odd set of services.
Watch Them Come Blood
2024
NRA group of road-tripping friends stumble upon a brothel with a very odd set of services.
Watch Them Come Blood
2024
NRFour 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
2012
NRThe 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
2024
NRThe 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
2024
NRA 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
2020
NRA 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
2020
NRA 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
2020
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
2011
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
2011
NRThe concluding adventures of Bobby Cardona and Calvin Nark.
Boys About Town #4
2025
NRThe concluding adventures of Bobby Cardona and Calvin Nark.
Boys About Town #4
2025
NRMade 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
2013
NRMade 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
2013
NRThe 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
2025
NRThe 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
2025
NRThe further adventures of Bobby Cardona and Calvin Nark.
Boys About Town #3
2025
NRThe further adventures of Bobby Cardona and Calvin Nark.
Boys About Town #3
2025