director’s bio
Writer/Director Daniel Millican made the leap from Commercials
and Music Videos to features in 2000. With his first film “The
Keyman: Finding Redemption”, Millican explored the
issues of regret and abandonment on the streets and the
destructive power of unforgiveness. That movie starred
Adam Baldwin and is being released worldwide by Artistview
Entertainment out of LA.
Millican’s sophomore project was the film “A
Promise Kept” starring Sean Patrick Flannery, Joey
Lauren Adams, Jeff Speakman and Mimi Rogers (“The
Gunman” for US video). This movie asks the question, “Do
we take justice into our own hands, even for the most noble
causes”? Worldwide sales have been strong and the
movie was released on video in the summer of 2004. Lifetime
Movie Network premiered the film on television in January
of 2005.
“Bloodlines” is drawn from Millican’s
experiences working in the corporate environment. “I
believe that one of the most destructive characteristic
of mankind is selfishness”, Millican writes. “When
everyone has their own selfish agenda, it leads to chaos.
What the hero, and hopefully the audience will see, is
that we cannot truly live until we die to ourselves”.
Millican wraps the story around an action/thriller plot
that takes place in the halls of a large corporation.
Millican
grew up in Austin and received his degree in Communications
from the University of Texas at Arlington
and now makes his home in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He
met his wife Jill at a campus Christian ministry at UTA.
Before attending the university, Jill had graduated from
a Bible College and had been a missionary. “I did
the music for the Christian ministry there on campus,” Millican
states.
From there, Millican went to work in broadcasting and
video/film production, in both small and large venue. “When
I started,” Millican says, “I was a one-man
band. We did this little cable travel show and I would
be sent out with camera, lighting and sound and expected
to come back with good footage that I would then edit.” Later
Millican would be the General Manager for the facility,
directing all the big projects that came trough. Millican
has won over 30 international awards for his writing, directing,
editing and producing of films, television, music videos,
commercials and corporate films.
That experience has led him to make films in the style
of Robert Rodriguez-as far as the technical areas. Like
Rodriguez, Millican writes, directs, produces and edits
his own features and even occasionally composes and performs
the musical score. “I enjoy all these parts of film
making”, Millican states. “I don’t mind
delegating and keep hands off when I do, but in writing,
directing and editing, I find the release for the passion
of filmmaking that’s bottled up inside me.”