About
Michael is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach with a B.A. in English, Creative Writing. He is a writer by nature but is pursuing a career in film festivals and events. When Michael is not working on the next great American Screenplay, you can find him at a local film festival either as staff or patron.
He has worked at several festivals in production and coordinating volunteers including Los Angeles Film Festival, Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, Dances with Films, and most recently Turner Classic Film Festival.
Michael is a huge fan of visual and literary arts, for leisure he loves to spend hours in used book stores, movie theaters, or local concert venues.
He currently has written four shorts under the fort and is in process of creating a web series on talented but struggling people transplanted to Los Angeles in hopes of making it Big. Last year Michael finished the first draft of his first Feature length screenplay "Drinking". This Fall he will begin pursuing an MFA in Screenwriting at CSU Fullerton.
Accolades
"Button" 2nd Place- LA Shorts Fest Screenwriting competition
"The Game" Official Selection Hollyshorts Film Festival
He has worked at several festivals in production and coordinating volunteers including Los Angeles Film Festival, Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, Dances with Films, and most recently Turner Classic Film Festival.
Michael is a huge fan of visual and literary arts, for leisure he loves to spend hours in used book stores, movie theaters, or local concert venues.
He currently has written four shorts under the fort and is in process of creating a web series on talented but struggling people transplanted to Los Angeles in hopes of making it Big. Last year Michael finished the first draft of his first Feature length screenplay "Drinking". This Fall he will begin pursuing an MFA in Screenwriting at CSU Fullerton.
Accolades
"Button" 2nd Place- LA Shorts Fest Screenwriting competition
"The Game" Official Selection Hollyshorts Film Festival
Works
Writer:
Button - Short (Post Production)
The Game - Short (Official Selection Holly Shorts 2015)
Foreplay - Short (2012)
Flanagan Release Me - Short (2012)
Writer/Director
The Decoy - Short
La Obsesion - Student Short
Losing My Religion - Student Short
Co-direct
Button - Short (In Production)
Button - Short (Post Production)
The Game - Short (Official Selection Holly Shorts 2015)
Foreplay - Short (2012)
Flanagan Release Me - Short (2012)
Writer/Director
The Decoy - Short
La Obsesion - Student Short
Losing My Religion - Student Short
Co-direct
Button - Short (In Production)
Unproduced Scripts
Hostile Takeover - Short - Comedy
Two mercenaries with a romantic past appear to be double booked
on a hit, but it is quickly seen more is a foot. Scorn and entrepreneurship create a humorous stalemate that's only escape is a blind leap together.
Drinking - 86 pages - Feature - Drama/ Comedy
A writer on the verge of his thirties reevaluates his social drinking habits after a breakup. Jim, the antihero, humorously analyzes the drinking culture of twenty something/ starving artists of generation Y while attempting to quit alcohol and understand his triggers for escaping to parties and bars in the middle of the night.
The Bridge - short- Drama
Follow the last hours of several people unknowingly headed towards a bridge in the center of the city to jump off by nights end.
Flapjack - Short - Drama/ Comedy
Bill, a stubborn persnickety young man, having a late lunch is bothered by an Old Man who wishes to take his booth. Though equally set in his ways, the Old Man is drastically more relaxed and care free than the young man. The Old man's behaviors irk and annoy Bill, but eventually the young man relents and is surprised to find some wisdom amidst a disruptive solitary lunch.
One Way Ticket - Web Series- Comedy/ Drama
A young man tries everything to keep a young aspiring actress working steadily so she does not move back home.
Two mercenaries with a romantic past appear to be double booked
on a hit, but it is quickly seen more is a foot. Scorn and entrepreneurship create a humorous stalemate that's only escape is a blind leap together.
Drinking - 86 pages - Feature - Drama/ Comedy
A writer on the verge of his thirties reevaluates his social drinking habits after a breakup. Jim, the antihero, humorously analyzes the drinking culture of twenty something/ starving artists of generation Y while attempting to quit alcohol and understand his triggers for escaping to parties and bars in the middle of the night.
The Bridge - short- Drama
Follow the last hours of several people unknowingly headed towards a bridge in the center of the city to jump off by nights end.
Flapjack - Short - Drama/ Comedy
Bill, a stubborn persnickety young man, having a late lunch is bothered by an Old Man who wishes to take his booth. Though equally set in his ways, the Old Man is drastically more relaxed and care free than the young man. The Old man's behaviors irk and annoy Bill, but eventually the young man relents and is surprised to find some wisdom amidst a disruptive solitary lunch.
One Way Ticket - Web Series- Comedy/ Drama
A young man tries everything to keep a young aspiring actress working steadily so she does not move back home.
