Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Mitchell Rose was a New York-based choreographer specializing in comedic work. The New York Times called him: "A rare and wonderful talent...the dance world's Woody Allen."

His company toured for 15 years, including the Spoleto Festival in the U.S. and Italy, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and numerous New York seasons in venues such as the Joyce Theatre, Dance Theater Workshop, and Joseph Papp's New York Dance Festival at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.

Eventually he was drawn more to visual media and chose to become a filmmaker, entering The American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow. Since A.F.I., his films have won 49 film festival awards and are screened around the world on television and in locations as diverse as the Getty Museum and the CBS JumboVision in Times Square.

In 2000, he revisited dance when he received a fellowship to explore ways of filming dance. Modern Daydreams was created during that fellowship and has won 19 festival awards. Since then he has continued to make dance films. His Learn to Speak Body recently had 1.5 million hits on YouTube in two weeks.

Some of his work is viewable on www.MitchellRose.com