Michele Civetta

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Michele Civetta (born 1976) is an Italian film director and multi-media artist and founder of Quintessence Films.

Career

Michele Civetta is an Emmy-nominated director. He has directed videos for

Civetta was preparing a film based on the international bestseller Coin Locker Babies that was scheduled to shoot in the summer of 2010 in Thailand and Japan, a co-production with Don Murphy's Angry Films. Production was delayed to 2013; by May of that year, the project had been renamed Regular Boy, and it was listed on IMDb as being in "pre-production".^[2] In 2015 it was reported to be in development again with the same script and director, now starring Vincent Gallo, Liv Tyler, Asia Argento and Sean Lennon.^[3]

Civetta and his company Quintessence Films commissioned and produced a series of 42-second short films based on Dreams for 42 Below Vodka/ Bacardi. Some of the filmmakers involved include

Civetta embarked on a psychedelic surf film for the New York-based label Mexican summer as a collaboration with members of MGMT, Ariel Pink and Connan Mockasin. Shooting began in Nicaragua in fall 2014.^[citation needed]

Civetta has worked with a wide array of actors including Asia Argento, Brady Corbett, Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Fisher, Devon Aoki, Paz de la Huerta, Burt Young, Grant Morrison and artists from Yoko Ono to Luigi Ontani, Donald Baechler.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016 Civetta's commercial Halloween Today for NBC was nominated for an Emmy Award.^{[citation needed][5]}

On April 3, 2020, Civetta's feature film