Director's bio

Marc Cayce is an American film writer, director, and producer. His First film Nikita Blues was selected for the HBO Short Film Competition at the Acapulco Black Film Festival in Acapulco, Mexico. Due to Nikita Blues receiving much fanfare and critical acclaim, Cayce was courted by some of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies such as William Morris. Cayce helped launch some of Hollywood’s known stars such as Brandon T. Jackson, Essence Atkins, and Kat Graham.

Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, Cayce spent much of his time watching television and movies. Watching movies such as Claudine and Cooley High greatly influenced his career choice.  After spending a short time in law enforcement, Cayce decided to pursue his dream of writing and directing and enrolled at the Los Angeles City College Film Department.

Cayce was fortunate to meet the acclaimed American film director, John Singleton, while pursuing his career, he decided to attend John’s Alma mater University of Southern California (USC) Film School. There he met and hired his composer, Stanley Clarke, for Cayce’s first film titled Nikita Blues.

After graduating from USC Film School, Cayce took an internship as a production assistant at MPCA/Orion Picture in Santa Monica, CA. After numerous long nights, ending with him sleeping at the production office many of those nights, he worked his way up to an independent producer slot with Motion Picture Corporation of America MPCA/Orion Pictures.

Cayce wrote a screenplay entitled A Chance Taken, for award-winning actress and iconic beauty Diahann Carroll. Cayce was then awarded a Warner Brothers Records multi-picture soundtrack deal based on that screenplay. 

Cayce wrote and produced a short film entitled Nikita Blues for HBO. He was then asked to write a feature film version of the film, which was theatrically released in 2001.^[2]

In 2005, Cayce wrote and directed Forbidden Fruits produced by Foremost Entertainment / Universal Music Group. It was released in 2006. The film stars Fredro Starr, Tommy “Tiny” Lister, Keith Sweat,  and Rima Fakih. This is an interracial love story between African Americans, Arab Americans, and Chaldean Americans. In 2008, Cayce’s third feature film, Trapped: Haitian Nights, was shot, and in the country of Haiti. It stars Vivica A. Fox and was released in the winter of 2010.  Cayce finished filming and released Detention Day in 2019 a remake of the Hollywood cult film “Breakfast Club.”

He also completed a movie called A Day of Trouble, starring Hawthorne James and Kathleen Bradley filmed near Nipsey Hustle’s Marathon Clothing stores, about two cousins who are in rival gangs “Crips” and “Bloods”.

Cayce continued to build his catalog of feature films under his production company Foremost Entertainment. “Flint Tale,” examines the Flint Water Crisis that occurred in Flint, Michigan. The film stars Hawthorne James and Erica Peeples.  

Cayce currently completed filming two films and is now in the process of releasing Sasha Lanes, about a young woman who tries to escape her past and Midwestern hometown to explore new opportunities and job security in California starring Paula Jai Parker and Tico Wells, and “BlackSkin,” starring Duane Finley and Miguel Nunez filmed in Minneapolis, Minnesota during the George Floyd riots. “BlackSkin,” Minneapolis becomes a prime target for police violence against black men, based on true events.