Misan Harriman Makes His Mark As An Oscar-Nominated Director, Six Years After Picking Up A Camera For The First Time
deadline.comSurreal. That’s how Misan Harriman describes his first time at the Academy Awards earlier this year. Six years before, his wife had bought him a Fujifilm X100 for his 40th birthday and encouraged him to start taking pictures with it.
Then there he was, surrounded by the global industry’s most overachieving, himself an Oscar-nominated director. He had always loved film, having been raised on ’80s and ’90s cinema like The Lost Boys, Big Trouble in Little China and Stand By Me.
He describes Home Alone, of all things, as “more than entertainment for troubled kids like me,” and will share his connection to the classic movie’s study of “trauma response” and the way it, and films like it, saved him.
Born in Nigeria in 1977, Harriman was the only Black kid at his British boarding school. “With my kind of neurodiversity, I’m not supposed to be good at anything,” he says. “I failed every exam I took, dropped out of school, university, all that.” Cinema quickly became his way of connecting to the world.
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