Underground Orange

A Californian backpacker travels to Buenos Aires to pay homage to the Argentine pirate who conquered his hometown of Monterey in 1818. Along the way, he becomes entangled in a polyamorous relationship with a gang of young actors who plot to kidnap the U.S. Ambassador.

Michael Taylor Jackson is a writer, director and a visual artist who attended art school in Buenos Aires before moving to New York City to complete an MFA in Film Directing in 2019. While in school, his short film series Harlemites screened at the Cinequest, Sarasota, and Sonoma Film Festival where he won the Best Dramatic Short and the American Diversity Award. In 2020, Michael directed two music videos for Universal Music and in 2023, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Underground Orange.

– 25 BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2024 – Official Avant-garde and Gender Competition (Argentina)

– Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival – First Features Section / North American Premiere (USA)