Mike Sherer

"I came up with the idea for the screenplay after reading numerous news accounts of police task forces set up to trap Internet chat room pedophiles - and police officers posing as teenage girls to ensnare sexual predators."

Oddly enough, Edward Albee's famous stage play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," had much to do with the creation of Hamal_18 as a movie. "I tried to incorporate the claustrophobic atmosphere where during one long night a middle age couple do battle with each other using the memory of their supposedly dead child." He wanted to maintain the same intensity, although updated for the age of the Internet for Hamal_18.

Besides writing Hamal_18, the prolific Mike Sherer has written numerous other screenplays which have garnered awards in writer's competitions around the U.S. Mike and his wife Connie live in Mason, Ohio.