Collaborations with producers, activists, clients, & families creating:
Two decades of visual storytelling
The archive of Michael Foster Creative: short and feature films, webisodes, promos, and tributes, gathered in one place alongside the channels that grew out of them.
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The channels are the current work
Vice Docket
Every GTA VI story gets a case file
Shorts, five times a week, on YouTube.
Watch on YouTube →
Cold Open Cases
Cold cases, reopened. Long-form true crime documentaries, told only as far as the record goes.
Watch on YouTube →
The Ashley DocumentaryIn production
A documentary series about Ashley Rogers, told the way she told her own life. In production.
About the series →
@mfosterj84
Find Michael on Instagram
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The archive
Four collections, twenty years
Selected works
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About
The projectionist who started cutting film
Creative experience started while I was a projectionist at a local movie theater.
Slated to go into corporate management, things took a different direction when joking around with a fellow employee about comedy in the workplace. Our screenwriting followed and the beginnings of my visual storytelling and film editing had me hooked.
Award-winning work has been screened theatrically and at film festivals nationwide.
Since the early days of threading films for moviegoers, I’ve shot, edited, produced, and directed countless documentaries, short films, tributes, promos, and narrative features in the independent film space — resume / IMDb including Seattle, Newport Beach, San Diego, Burbank, Pennsylvania’s Oil City, and Mockfest, winning Best Comedy and Best Mockumentary for Runyon: Just Above Sunset, a Funny or Die six-episode web series. Soon after, I began editing the documentary feature film Trace Amounts about mercury and autism — taking 4 years to complete and comprising 300 hours of raw and archival footage. We premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, receiving enormous celebrity praise by Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro, and Bill Maher advocating for clean vaccine policy for children. As a director’s re-cut in 2022, my documentary short Artists of the Roundtable about the most meaningful people within tv, film, and music was showcased at the annual Oil Valley Film Festival.