John Stewart Muller is an American motion picture and television commercial director.

Biography

Muller was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, where he attended the Pembroke Hill School before moving to Los Angeles to study film at Loyola Marymount University. He began making films at the age of seven. A founding partner of Steele Films in 2000, Muller shifted his focus to full-length motion pictures after eight years directing television commercials, completing a number of original screenplays with his producer, Laura Boersma.

His debut feature, Fling (internationally titled Lie to Me), premiered to a sold-out crowd at the Newport Beach Film Festival on April 26, 2008, and received an award for "Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking" by the festival's jury. Fling had its official Los Angeles Premiere on October 18, 2008, at the Fine Arts Theatre on Wilshire Boulevard as part of the 2008 LA Femme Film Festival. It had its East Coast premiere on November 7, 2008, at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival followed shortly thereafter by its Midwest premiere and limited theatrical release on November 14, 2008, at the Screenland Theatre in the Crossroads, Kansas City. Fling had its international premiere at the Bahamas International Film Festival on December 5, 2008. The film was distributed in North America by Peace Arch Entertainment, released on March 24, 2009.