Mike Hardy is an award-winning writer, director and producer and "Washington, DC Filmmaker of the Month" for October 2014 for his work on the feature film Fort Bliss. A former Army officer and counter-terrorism specialist, Mike has extensive experience internationally and has a as-yet-untested method for surviving kidnapping by radical non-denominational terrorists. Mike splits time between Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Paraguay, South America, where his Texas native wife and family are posted. Mike has several projects in varying stages of development, but his passion project is a remake of the classic sports film, The Fish the Saved Pittsburgh.