After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Michele Civetta signed a production deal with bi-coastal HKM Productions / Directors Bureau. Since that time he has helmed numerous projects for an array of commercial clients ranging from Martini & Rossi, Cingular Wireless, Badoit, Dunkin' Donuts, Coca Cola to The Partnership for a Drug Free America. Civetta has also directed music videos for a spectrum of recording artists such as Lou Reed, Sparklehorse, and Yoko Ono. In 2006 he wrote and directed an ambitious and critically praised musical feature for Sean Lennon's Capitol Records release Friendly Fire starring Lindsay Lohan, Asia Argento, Carrie Fisher & Devon Aoki. The 50-minute film is available on DVD in a 2-disc set accompanying the album in record and video stores everywhere and debuted January 2008 on Mark Cuban's HDNet channel.
Civetta is currently in pre-production on a film based on the international bestseller Coin Locker Babies that is scheduled to shoot this Fall in Japan. The film is a co-production between Don Murphy's Angry Films (Natural Born Killers, Bully, Transformers) and the French production company Wild Bunch (City of God, Irreversible, Che) and stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Jamie Cambell Bower, Rinko Kikuchi, Asia Argento, Tadanobu Asano and Val Kilmer.
Mr. Civetta is also prepping a film with Agnes B/ Love Streams productions based on the life of the Chevalier de Saint George.
Mr. Civetta currently resides in Rome with his wife Asia Argento & their 2 children. The couple produce a radio show featuring lost eclectic music for broadcast all over Italy on Lifegate Radio and are writing a new film together for Mrs. Argento to direct.
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