MERCIES MAY

Mercies May is a Minneapolis-based horror writer-director focused largely on stories that use genre to explore trauma, grief and power dynamics, often where they intersect. Having directed more than 160 independent music videos, he bring a highly visual, rhythm-driven sensibility to his filmmaking. In addition to his directing work, he has freelanced as a screenwriter most notably helping to adapt Swedish-Ugandan author Johannes Anyuru’s August Prize winning novel “They Will Drown in Their Mother’s Tears” and he also served as director of photography on the Midwest Emmy Award-winning TPT/PBS music doc series Stage. His latest short film “A Shadow in the Corner of the Room” explore entropy, isolation, and the primal fears drawn to them.

Honor’s Half-Life - co-written, released on DUST
Bellum: The Daemon of War - co-written, released
They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears - co-written, adapted from novel
A Storm Came from Paradise - co-written, adapted from novel

Director of Photography

Stage (Seasons 3–4) PBS

Producer

Honor’s Half-Life