Mike Blum is a director, writer and producer working in film, TV and the internet.  He produced the live-action, feature film, The Playback Singer, starring Navi Rawat (Numb3rs, The House of Sand and Fog, The OC), Ross Partridge (Baghead, The Freebie), and Bollywood actor/singer, Piyush Mishra, who has been hailed as a genius by Rolling Stone.

Before that, he produced and directed a series of eight 2-3 minute CG animated shorts for Comedy Central. Premiering on Comedy Central's broadband "Motherload" website in November 2006, the series, The Adventures of Baxter & McGuire, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Broadband Comedy Program and raised the bar for web-based original content. The series was also part of a half-hour block of shorts on the Comedy Central TV network. Entitled Web Shows, the series premiered in March 2007.

From August 2004 through March 2006, Mike served as Technical Supervisor for Toy Story 3, where he oversaw and coordinated all aspects of information technology development and technical process management for the show. Prior to that, he served for 10 years as software supervisor for internal tool development at Walt Disney Feature Animation where he oversaw design and deployment of numerous animator-friendly tools used in more than a dozen films ranging from The Hunchback of Notre Dame to Dinosaur to Chicken Little. He earned his Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah where he designed animation tools for long form productions and his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.

In 1998, Mike took the leap from the technical to creative ranks by producing, directing, and animating Salad Bowl...A Carrot's Tale, an after hours film project completed at Disney. His second directorial effort, Oil & Vinegar, qualified for consideration for an Academy Award, has received international acclaim at festivals, and is currently being distributed around the world. In 2004 Mike produced his first live-action film, Blessing. The 15 minute, 35mm film attracted some of the top talent in Hollywood including famed casting director, Mali Finn (Titanic, L.A. Confidential, The Matrix Trilogy, 8 Mile); Emmy award winning editor, Scott Gamzon (Party Monster, The Apprentice); and actor, Omar Miller (8 Mile, Shall We Dance?).

Since premiering in March 2005, The Zit has screened at over 100 world-wide festivals, won more than a dozen international awards and has received accolades from the likes of Bill Plympton (Oscar nominated animator/director) who raved "The Zit is an over-the-top, hilarious film - I wish I'd done it."

• 2nd Place, Best Animation at the Pacific Coast Film Festival
• Audience Top 10, Hardshare FilmFest, 2000
• IFILMPro "Filmmaker to Watch", 2002

• Salad Bowl...A Carrot's Tale, 1998, Writer/Producer/Director