Michael Szymczyk is an independent filmmaker, photographer, philosopher and novelist. He is the writer and director of five feature films Scent, Eaters of the Dead, SARS-29, Journey to the End of the Night and Night of the Skinwalkers. His first novel received mentions in The Chicago Sun-Times, The Kansas City Star and Publisher's Weekly. It was also used in several college level Existentialism courses and had its Farsi translation banned by the Iranian Ministry of Culture. He is the author of Independent Filmmaking 101, Atlantis And Its Fate In The Postdiluvian World: A Possible Site For Plato's Atlantis By Kodiak Island and German 101.