John Angel (filmmaker)

John Angel is an American filmmaker, actor and musician who graduated Loyola Marymount University in 2000 with a BA in Screenwriting and Chapman University in 2005 with a MFA in Film Production. He is a singer/songwriter/musician and also makes MusicAL feature films in which he writes the original musical numbers, stars in the films and writes/directs/produces, and usually edits his own films. John is best known for making two feature films in this style: Crazy Animal and The Vampires of Zanzibar. Crazy Animal sneak previewed in Park City at Tromadance 2006. It has roles by John Angel, Ron Jeremy, Lloyd Kaufman and Brinke Stevens. It was released worldwide on March 31, 2009 by Troma Entertainment. The Vampires of Zanzibar has roles by Brandon Dicamillo and Chris Raab ("Raab Himself") of Jackass/Viva La Bam/CKY and Eerie Von of Samhain/Danzig. The Vampires of Zanzibar has not been distributed by a movie company yet but is starting to gain fans and showing currently for free on YouTube. Aside from making these musical feature films, John has worked as a production designer and set decorator on feature films such as the Full Moon Studios release Horror Vision and Mitch Rouse's major independent feature Nobody Knows Anything with cameos by Mike Myers, Ben Stiller, Margaret Cho and many others. John has had the privilege to either star in or direct films involving Ed Asner (PSA titled "The Potential" directed by Justin Jagoda), Pauly Shore (DVD Host for John's short film Rebel Fish), Peter Medak (John's professor at Chapman University) and many other Hollywood greats. Previous to January 2012, John Angel was known as John Birmingham.

In early 2011, John Angel started a solo music career, releasing two new music videos, "A Beautiful Night" and "The Girl and the Sorcerer"

Selected filmography