Michael Olmos

MICHAEL D. OLMOS (Director, Producer) graduated from Columbia University in NY („99) in Creative Writing and Contemporary American Literature. After graduating Columbia, he joined the Sandford Misner Academy to study acting. While there he attended Marlon Brando‟s experimental acting class “Lying for a Living,” working in scenes alongside such industry notables as Robin Williams, Sean Penn, Whoopi Goldberg, Harry Dean Stanton, and of course Marlon Brando.

His first screenplay “After Hours,” participated at 2003 IFP Film
Market‟s Emerging Narratives.

In 2005 he co-founded Chamber Six Productions, an independent
film production and comic book publishing company represented by WME. The company developed their graphic novel SEED with Michael De Luca and writer John Ridley at Sony pictures. Later that year he wrote, produced and directed SPLINTER for Dark Horse Entertainment. He teamed with filmmakers Youssef Delara and Victor Teran on his second feature BEDROOMS, where each directed a section of the ensemble film. The team continued onto their third feature FILLY BROWN, directed by Olmos and Delara The film is in Us Dramatic Competition for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Currently he is the Vice President of Film for Olmos Productions at ABC/Disney where he handles both creative and executive roles.

He is writing METTLE with renowned comic book author Bob Layton, a deconstruction of the superhero mythos, producing an animated US/Mexico co- production called “El Americano” that starts pre-production in January, and for his next feature film developing the story of pro female boxer Senisa Estrada, who saved her father‟s life by convincing him to become her trainer.