{"id":66,"date":"2012-01-10T18:43:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T23:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michelasmith.com\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2025-07-10T21:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T02:30:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/michelamaria.com\/?page_id=66","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/span>Hi! I’m Michela, a Webby Winner and Emmy loser.<\/p>\n

Born into an Italian-American family, I was destined to be a multi-hyphenate. I got my start directing comedy shorts for Adult Swim, Above Average, and Funny or Die. Nowadays, I bring my comedy to the commercial world, directing for clients like Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Google, and more.<\/p>\n

In 2024, I directed The Fenty Beauty + Skin Experience<\/em> for Rihanna\u2019s beauty brand, which won The Webby Award for Best Brand Integration.<\/strong><\/span><\/a> In 2023, I directed Netflix\u2019s Stranger Things Immersive Watch Party<\/em>, which was nominated for the\u00a0Primetime Emmy in Outstanding Innovation in Emerging Media Programming<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, and for The Producer\u2019s Guild Innovation Award<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Of all my work, I’m most proud of Heirloom<\/em><\/a><\/strong>,<\/strong><\/span><\/span> a film about my Italian-American family that starred Isabella Rossellini. Heirloom<\/em> was a recipient of a The Russo Brothers\u2019 Italian American Film Forum grant<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span>
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I’m also proud to be a member of the directing roster at CRY<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>, a compelling commercial production company based in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi! I’m Michela, a Webby Winner and Emmy loser. Born into an Italian-American family, I was destined to be a multi-hyphenate. I got my start directing comedy shorts for Adult Swim, Above Average, and Funny or Die. Nowadays, I bring my comedy to the commercial world, directing for clients like Netflix, HBO, Amazon, Google, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelamaria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelamaria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelamaria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelamaria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelamaria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":139,"href":"https:\/\/michelamaria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"https:\/\/michelamaria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelamaria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}