Mike Messier

About Mike Messier

Mike Messier has won 35 awards in film Direction, TV production, Screenwriting and play-writing. Messier has shared scenes with Meryl Streep & Elisabeth Shue (in Hope Springs), Wesley Snipes, Cybill Shepherd & Mario Van Peebles (in Hard Luck), and Richard Jenkins & Frances McDormand (in Olive Kitteridge).Messier's The Hospital Bed won him a Best Director Award in the Spring 2020 Alternative Film Festival in the Ultra Short Category while the film's poster (that Messier also designed) was later named a Best Poster Finalist in the Fall 2020 "AFF" contest. In Summer 2020, Messier won a Best Actor Award, Ultra Short Category from Alternative Film Festival for his spoken word performance in The Never Was. Both The Hospital Bed and The Never Was were edited by Zoe Morgan.The Manor, distributed by LionsGate . a feature horror film produced by Tommy DeNucci of Woodhaven Media, and 2Cousins Productions, features Mike as Ole Bayton in intense scenes as a roughneck hunter. Mike also was hired as the lead screenwriter on the piece. Mike has intense scenes with his co-stars Sully Erna (Godsmack's lead singer), Pro Wrestlers Kevin Nash and Mike Kanellis-Bennett, and Dexter's 'Astor' Christina Robinson, who plays the film's lead character of Amy.Mike studied Acting and Directing under Barry Primus (of Cagney & Lacey, Boxcar Bertha, American Hustle), Steve Fierberg (DP of Entourage, Love and Other Drugs), and Tom Kane (First Assistant Director of Kramer vs. Kramer) among others. Based on these experiences, Mike created and developed both C.O.R.E. A.C.T.I.N.G. - and intense scene study and character develop class - and Tao Zen Acting, an integrated approach to acting and life/work skills.Messier's work as Writer/Director/Producer includes Thanksgiving, which premiered at SENE Music, Arts, and Film Festival 2016 and won an Audience Choice Award for Best Regional Short. The same film also won the prestigious Princeton Tiger Award from the Nassau Film Festival at Princeton Garden Theater in May, 2017. Thanksgiving is about a man in his twenties who brings his girlfriend home to meet his until recently estranged father; only to discover his girlfriend and father once had their own romantic interlude years earlier.Mike's writing, co-directing and co-producing with co-Director Skip Shea, Producer Chirstine Perla and star David Graziano were major ingredients to the success of the short film The Actor, based on the life of a man coming to terms with the major mistakes in his life, about the career and the lady he left behind. The film won Honorable Mention at the 2014 SENE Festival and brought some closure to the real life subject matter.The Nature of the Flame, Mike's visual masterpiece Feminist Dream Zen Study won Best Cinematography from the inaugural My Love Michelle Short Film Festival from San Antonio, Texas in 2015 for the piece written and directed by Mike with Cinematography and editing by Chris Hunter. Messier's literary hero, the best selling author Laurence G. Boldt (Zen and the Art of Making a Living) was sent the film by Messier himself and responded "Beautifully done".The Mediterranean Film Festival also awarded the Messier - Hunter team an award for Best Photo for their promotional photo for Disregard the Vampire: A Mike Messier Documentary. The winning photo captures Valentine (portrayed by Geena Matuson) with the sweet taste of Ginger (played by Anna Rizzo) with hair and make up by Kaitlyn Ciampa and photo editing by Ms. Matuson.Mike recently...

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Messier Moment - Chad Verdi - Producer of Bleed for This - executive produced by Martin Scorsese

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MR. BIRTHDAY movie behind the scenes #shorts

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