Michael Basta
Directing
Michael Basta is a Director, Editor, Writer, and Producer with a degree in Film/Video Production from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. From 2016-2023, he worked in the entertainment industry as a Video Editor on Hulu’s marketing creative team. He's edited a wide range of promotional content: including trailers, teasers, social promos, brand spots, ad sales, sizzles, display units, and cultural campaigns. He currently work as a freelance video editor/producer. He's also a Co-Founder of an independent film collective called Omnes Films, which seek to fill a void in modern cinema with films made by friends that are passionate, ambitious, favor atmosphere over plot, and study the many forms of cultural decay in the 21st century. Whatever the subject or genre, it seeks projects that are original in conception and feel like they’ve never been made before.
Known for
Behind the camera12
- 2025Eephus Writer, Producer, Assistant Director, Sound Designer
- 2024Christmas Eve in Miller's Point First Assistant Camera
- 2021Ham on Rye Producer
- 2021Topology of Sirens First Assistant Camera
- 2021Bernard Checks In Director, Writer, Producer
- 2012An Absence Sound Engineer, Director
- 2012Distraction of the Chickens Key Grip
- 2011Eat Your Meat Director, Original Music Composer
- 2011Remedy In Phrases Director, Director of Photography
- 2011