(2008) THE WILD WORLD OF TED V. MIKELS, a new documentary by Kevin Sean Michaels, is a rollicking look at the independent cinema and film pioneering of Ted V. Mikels, who has been producing films for over 60 years. Way before limited-budget action films became termed as “grindhouse,” Ted was wowing audiences with his own special brand of guts, gore, humor, violence and most of all style.