Michael Van Devere is a film director and producer through his independent film company Fabular Films. With period locations, costumes, and themes, the filmmaker has been praised for visually handsome, literary, and poetical films. From Puritan New England to Victorian Cape Cod, each feature or short explores the perceptions and meanings of America and its figures. Over a decade of films produced at Harvard include Bachelors Cottage (2006), Ithaca (2007), John Harvard (2007), Perkins 28: Testimony from the Secret Court Files of 1920 (2008), William Wilson (2011), Between Two Friends (2013), Roosevelt's Operative (2014), Last Night (2015), In A Minor Lustrum (2015), American Sleeper (2016), Water Bearer (2017), Paul's Shop (2018), Dispatch to Ogygia (2018), and After the Faun (2019).