Dan Mirvish is an American filmmaker and author, best known as the co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival[2][3] and co-creator of the Martin Eisenstadt hoax during the 2008 Presidential election.
[6] In 2004, Mirvish spearheaded the effort to get the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to reactivate their Best Original Musical Oscar category.
[11] In 2009, he co-authored the satirical novel I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man's (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 978-0-86547-914-2.
The four-person drama stars Taye Diggs, Melissa George, David Harbour and Julia Stiles.
The original play premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club, and Hortua and Mirvish co-wrote the screenplay adaptation.