t.j. misny writes, directs, photographs and edits those moving pictures you keep hearing about.
he is currently in preproduction on his first feature film as writer/director, MATCHLESS OPPONENT.
his short films have screened at over six dozen film festivals worldwide, including DETRITUS (director/cinematographer/editor) which was awarded the kodak director's prize at the 2015 slamdance film festival. his collection of three darkly comic short films, INTIMATE SEMAPHORES (writer/director/producer/editor) starring kate lyn sheil ("house of cards"), ariane labed ("before midnight") and jocelin donahue ("house of the devil") made its US premiere as the opening night of the 2014 brooklyn film festival (winner: best editing) and its international premiere at the 2014 stockholm film festival (nominated: iFestival award).
as a comedy director, t.j.'s video work has accumulated over 200 million online views, including Comedy Central's "hack into broad city" (2016 emmy nominee: outstanding short form series + webby award honoree + shorty award nominee). top curators have celebrated misny’s work, including Short of the Week, Indiewire, Rooftop Films and Vimeo Staff Picks ("the truth about meeting women" + "exes"). misny has also directed + photographed over two dozen original comedic shorts for Huffington Post, MTV, Vox Media, Bleacher Report, Turner Ignite, Bustle, ABC Digital, Conde Nast Entertainment, TruTV and Refinery29. "broad city's" ilana glazer has called misny "a straight-up visionary" and abbi jacobson has said "he's so fucking talented".
as a commercial director, t.j. has directed over 40 spots for companies including Realtor, GE, Western Digital, SoFi, Qdoba, Kohls, Chrysler, YouTube, Hasbro, Schick, Twitter and US Cellular with agencies BBDO, R/GA, Goodby Silverstein, 360i, HUGE, Pereira O'Dell, J. Walter Thompson, Laundry Service, Big Spaceship and Mullenlowe.
he lives in manhattan.
contact
tjmisny@yahoo.com @tjmisny IMDB