Web series · Co-creator
My Astronaut
She has her sights set on Mars. Her boyfriend has other plans. A comedy about an extraordinary ambition and a very human relationship.
Explore the seriesScreenwriter & filmmaker
Micah
Paisner.
Comedy, complicated people, and the occasional trip to Mars.
Explore my work
Made for the screen.
Selected films & series
The Last Movie
They Ever Made
A film-school reunion becomes a movie shoot, with a secret documentary threatening the friendships behind it.
View filmYou, Me & Me
A promising romance meets an unexpected obstacle: the boyfriend’s future self.
Watch the shortMolly Mayor
A young mayor’s disaster-relief meeting goes spectacularly off course.
View filmIt starts on the page.
Selected writing
Pilots and features about people with big plans, bad timing, and a knack for getting in their own way.
Sweethearts
High-school sweethearts in their thirties confront the next chapter when a younger sibling gets married first.
ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition quarterfinalist, 2022
Conundrum Integrated
An underachieving mystery gang and their hard-drinking cat try to escape the shadow of their much more famous competition.
Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition semifinalist, 2020
Earth on Heaven
The afterlife promises a fresh start. Jeremy discovers that heaven comes with plenty of earthly frustrations.
Third place, Cinequest Screenwriting Competition, 2016
Alive With the Glory of Love
Two sixteen-year-old friends chase a first love across the country in 2005, armed with determination and very little life experience.
Austin Film Festival second round, 2020
A little background
Serious about
being funny.
Micah Paisner is a screenwriter and filmmaker from Chicago. He studied creative writing at Lawrence University, sketch writing at Second City, and screenwriting in Columbia University’s MFA program.
An Imagine Impact finalist, he has developed pilots and scripted podcasts with Audio Up and Sugar23. His work spans independent films, web series, and television scripts.
Outside of writing: basketball, a growing TV watchlist, and a firmly held opinion about Michael Jordan.