documentaries ︎

full film ︎

Meantime

Director | Editor | Cinematographer: Michael T Workman
Original Score: Nicholas Merz and Evan Backer

After Tim’s work-related stroke leads to troubling health complications, his son Michael returns home to Montana. As they spend the most time together since Michael’s childhood, they reckon with the past that haunts Tim. Meantime is a deeply personal exploration of memory, guilt, labor, and the attempt to preserve the fleeting.

2022 | Documentary | 4K Color | TRT 18:28 minutes

AWARDS

2022

Winner Best Short Film at Telluride Mountainfilm
Winner Vimeo Staff Pick Award at Palm Springs ShortFest
Winner Best Short Documentary BendFilm Festival
Best Short Doc Nominee at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Best Short Doc Nominee at Independent Film Festival Boston

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2022

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (New Docs Selection)
Telluride Mountainfilm
Independent Film Festival Boston
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
San Francisco DocFest
Palm Springs ShortFest
BendFilm Festival
Denver International Film Festival
Buffalo International Film Festival

full film ︎

From Parts Unknown

Director | Editor | Cinematographer: Michael T Workman
Producers: Sean Rudolf, Ryan Seitz
Sound recording: Sean Rudolf
Orignial Score: Trey Hilley

Jesse “Madman” Manson decided to live out his fantasy by starting an underground Professional Wrestling league in the backyards of Spokane, Washington. Ten years later, Spokane Anarchy Wrestling is gaining momentum and popularity, but Jesse’s incurring injuries from years of wrestling are proving to be a threat to the one thing that has given him an outlet to express himself.

2018 | Documentary | HD Color | TRT: 27:45 minutes

AWARDS

2018

Grand Jury Prize at Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival
Nominee for Best Short Documentary at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Nominee for Best Short Documentary at Sheffield Doc/Fest

DISTRIBUTION

Means TV
Real Stories

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Favor & Grace

Co-Directors: Adrian L Burrell & Michael T Workman

After the execution of her nephew at the hands of the Vallejo Police, Angela seeks justice.

2021 | Documentary | 4k Color | TRT: 10:28 minutes

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2021

Tacoma International Film Festival
San Francisco Indie Shorts
Sidewalk Film Festival
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Fist Up Film Festival

DISTRIBUTION

Means TV

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music videos ︎

Nicholas Merz “Great Spiders”

Izaak Opatz “Chinook Wind”

Nicholas Merz “Midnight Movement”

Nicholas Merz “Drifting Palomino”

Director | Editor | Cinematographer: Michael T Workman
Production Assistant: Anna Japaridze

Song off of Nicholas Merz's new album "God Won't Save You, But I Will."
Released via Aagoo Records.

Featuring:
Nicholas Merz
Nicholas Lopez
Marin Guero

2020 | Music Video | 4K Color | TRT: 6:40 minutes

Izaak Opatz “Not Yet”

Izaak Opatz “Duck Lake Road”

Director | Editor | Cinematographer: Michael T Workman
Sound: Sean Rudolf

Izaak Opatz performs "Duck Lake Road" on Duck Lake Road east of Glacier National Park. July 21st, 2018.

Single released via Mama Bird Recording Co.

2018 | Music Video | 4K Color | TRT: 5:12 minutes