Filmmaker Biography Mick Cusimano

Mick Cusimano's cartoons have appeared in over 100 magazines in Boston, L.A., France, England, Slovenia, and Russia. His cartoon painting The Night of Red Jazz was exhibited at the New Surrealists Art Exhibition in Paris 2003.

As a grad student in multimedia at Harvard University Mick made his first animated movie: Billy Barnum which was chosen for the 2001 Philippines International Film Festival. The Flash movies series Rooster Tails satirize history and culture.

Movies from the Rooster Tails series have been screened at the Giggleshorts Comedy Film Festival in Toronto, The New Surrealists Art Show-Paris, Boston Neighborhood Network News, The Lowell One Minute Film Festival, Out of the Blue Art Gallery, The End of the Summer Film Festival, Cambridge Cable TV, Cookieshorts Film Festival-Portland, ME, Tufts University Television, Boston Filmmakers Expo @ Northeatern U, and the Zeitgeist Art Gallery.

The Rooster Tails series is also available for television and movie programming on video and DVD.

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