Micah Magee is a director and screenwriter. She graduated from the department of radio-television-film at the University of Texas. Her German-filmed short documentary Krankenhaus (2004), recording her own medically assisted posttraumatic state following a wild bout of marijuana huffing, won the main prize in its category at the Oberhausen short film festival in 2004. In France she created the seven-minute documentary My Last Day in Nigeria (2008) about a boy who is determined to leave his homeland. Three short acted films followed, including Heimkommen (2012), in which a young female protagonist figures prominently for the first time. The writer-director film Petting Zoo, her feature debut, makes use of the director's own experiences growing up in southern Texas. The film was presented at the Berlinale and SXSW.
50. MFF Karlovy Vary
