Michael Manasseri is part of the 2020 Independent Spirit Award winning producing team (John Cassavetes Award) for his work on the critically acclaimed comedy, Give Me Liberty. Michael’s upcoming productions include, Beast, directed by Riley Keogh and Gina Gammell with Caviar Films, the international action thriller, Accelerant, with UK production outfit, MovieHouse, and the nature and science short documentary series, VERT_Project, based in Rome, Italy. Michael is the founder of Flux Capacitor Studios and the director of the family comedy, The Pickle Recipe. He began his career in entertainment as a child actor, starring in the mid 90’s TV series, Weird Science. Michael has also mentored over 400 Cinema Studies students through his academic/entrepreneurial partnership with Oakland University.