A graduate of the High School of Art & Design and Parson’s School of Design as an Illustrator, Mike Sargent started his career in Theatre and Film as a sound designer. He was nominated several times for the prestigious Audelco Award for excellence in Sound Design. From there Mike went on to write, produce and direct radio drama and audio books, adapting the works of such acclaimed Science-fiction authors as Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clark and has been the recipient of a series of grants to develop his feminist-science-fiction play Nemesis.

In 1997 his short film, The Lesson, premiered to critical acclaim at the Visions of New Black filmmaker’s Festival. His debut feature film Hook’d Up (vt Personals), which he wrote and directed, was the opening night film at the 1999 Los Angeles’ Pan African Film Festival. He has recently completed the scripts for The Cerulean Project and Dark Resurection; a supernatural psychological thriller that he has fashioned as both a graphic novel and his next feature to direct. Currently, he is writing The Decoy; a political thriller with sci-fi overtones and developing several other film and television projects. In addition to his screenplay writing projects Mike continues his adaptation of his critically acclaimed radio documentary on Blacks in Science fiction into the ultimate film compendium on the subject. The book is to be titled THE HISTORY OF OUR FUTURE: Black images in science-fiction film, a historical documentation of how people of color have been represented [or mysteriously not represented] in science-fiction films through several interviews, essays and reviews of every single genre film from 1939’s Things To Come to 2004’s Blade 3.

Currently the producer/co-host of WBAI-NY’s popular long running late night magazine/talk show, Niteshift and for the past 3 years Mike has been the chief film critic for WBAI, and hosts Reelworld, an all film related program. Mike has appeared on numerous Television and radio programs for his various creative endeavors as guest, guest commentator and panelist. During his radio tenure [over 19 years] he hosted a variety of Arts related programs for the Pacifica Radio Network and other New York stations. As a nationally quoted film and entertainment critic and member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association [BFCA] Mike is also a co-founder of the African American Film Critics Association [AAFCA]. Mike Sargent is also the co-founder of the Visionary Network, an organization that showcases screenplays written by people of color. Through this exposure several of the featured screenplays have been optioned as films.