Michael D. Akers (born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. In 2000, he founded United Gay Network (UGN) in partnership with Sandon Berg. Most of his films are LGBT-related.
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Michael D. Akers studied at Indiana University of Pennsylvania before moving to Los Angeles to begin a career in the entertainment industry as production assistant and assistant director working on the cable movie Jurassic Women. For three years, he worked with Turner Feature Animation in Cats Don't Dance helping to research and develop animated features. Then he moved to Grand Productions, and later produced Lifetime series show Intimate Portraits. Moving to television, he became executive assistant to Martin Short on The Martin Short Show and a story and research assistant to Ryan Seacrest's NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies and Anne Robinson's The Weakest Link.
Establishing United Gay Network, he moved to independent filming. In March 2002, Michael D. Akers directing his short B&W w/Splash of Clown in partnership with Sandon Berg. His debut long feature film Gone But Not Forgotten premiered at the 9th Annual Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. It was followed by Matrimonium, an improv film about a reality show trying to marry two men for ratings. Phoenix is a symbolic and lyrical filmexamined why relationships end the way that they do. It focuses around a young man who goes to Phoenix, Arizona to surprise his lover, only to discover his lover's secret other life. Morgan is about a paraplegic man putting his life back together after an accident leaves his paralyzed.
In Gone, But Not Forgotten he was credited as Michael D. Akers. But in all later movies, he used Micaehl Akers (dropping the middle "D").
United gay Network is a production house founded by Michael D. Akers and Sandon Berg[1] Akers has released his films through the company.