About Us
Mouse House Productions is a full-service film production company specializing in narrative shorts and features. Formed in 2019, we bring decades of film and theatrical production experience to each project; creating films that get the audience thinking and so encouraging transformation in the audience’s inner life as well as the cultures in which we all move. Our stories tend to be ‘efflorescent’: the characters and the story emerge as if blooming. That can present itself in a number of ways: a teen coming of age, a downtrodden man learning to enjoy life, a woman escaping the pressures of societal beauty standards, or many other forms of ‘blossoming’.
With the capability to produce a film from beginning to end from something as simple as a napkin sketch or as fully formed as a production plan, Mouse House Productions is here to bring your story to life. Use the contact form to get in touch; we’d love to connect with you.
Bios
Missy Bell (Chief Creative Officer) has been directing and coaching actors for the past 24 years. Beginning at the age of 19 as a stage director, she eventually found her way to the world of film in her thirties.
“It feels like the perfect marriage to me of everything that I am – as if all roads led to the moment I began my directing work for “Sink”: my first short. The little kid lining up Crayola markers to see which order was most aesthetically pleasing under the warm glow of the Edison lamp in my childhood home now sees the world in breakdowns of color and feeling. I love, more than anything else, telling a story – watching words dance off of the page and onto the frame. It’s more than passion – it’s releasing a piece of my soul.”
Missy lives in the mountains of North Carolina where, outside the film world, she wears the hats of mom, teacher, jazz enthusiast, kayaker, and drinker of black coffee.
Michael Bell (Chief Production Officer) is a lover or spreadsheets, organization, and enabling creative pursuits. He holds a bachelor’s degree in theatrical technology and lighting, ran his own photography business, and has been a director of photography, producer, editor, colorist, background actor, and whatever else is needed to get great stories out to a growing audience.
Michael lives near Asheville, NC and enjoys running, cycling, woodworking, space efficiency, and all forms of film and electronic gadgetry.