Born in San Francisco California, Michael Angelo began his career in film and television working in the camera department at Magnetic Image in Northern California. While completing a Broadcasting degree at San Francisco State University, Michael directed and produced a short documentary about the Therapon Association, a provider of housing and care for autistic children and adults in Marin County. Taking a second job as a researcher for THX Lucasfilm located at Skywalker Ranch, Michael gained access to the world of visual effects at the infamous Industrial Light and Magic. At ILM he shadowed world renowned Visual Effects Supervisor Ken Ralston for a photojournalism assignment and fell in love with visual effects.

Michael began shooting and editing test commercials for ad agency Goodby Silverstein and Partners eventually moving fully into post production working as an online editor, colorist and visual effects artist at Pacific Video Resources in San Francisco. He spent years working with directors of features, commercials and documentaries, including well known documentarist Werner Herzog. Other credit highlights include primetime editor at the 1998 CBS Winter Olympics in Nagano Japan editing the first snowboarding events in history and primetime features editor for swimming at the NBC 2000 Olympics in Sydney Australia.

In 2000 Michael focused his talents on Autodesk Flame visual effects commercial work. Servicing a variety of high end post houses including Method Studios, The Mission, Framestore, Riot, The Mill, Charlex, Psyop, Eight VFX, Logan, Jump and others, project highlights include Super Bowl commercials and feature films like Knight and Day, Time Traveler’s Wife, X-Men Origins, Jumper, Live Free or Die Hard , Beyonce’s Black is King and more.

Inspired by artists in Venice Beach California, in 2012 Michael began directing the documentary “A DocumenTree”, wrapping principle photography in 2024 and now in post production. Following the Treeman story for more than a decade lead Michael into a rabbit hole of neuroscience and circus, through research and personal exploration. Michael has since been directing commercials/promos for the “Dear San Francisco” cirque show by The 7 Fingers at Club Fugazi and others. Michael is one of the guest teachers at free public weekly circus flow skill share called “Circus Saturdays”. To learn more about “Circus Saturdays”, visit CircusArtsFlow.com and see weekly event recap videos @CircusArtsFlow on Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube.