Biography

Michael Natoli is an award-winning indie screenwriter, director, and cinematographer from New Jersey, specializing in horror, suspense, and Sci-Fi genres. Mike is the owner/show-runner for Grand Atomica Pictures, LLC. and under the company banner has most recently written & directed the art-house indie horror short Pumpkinstein (2023), shot on location in New Jersey. He was the writer/director and lead cinematographer of two web series, Existence (2017) and Mojave Blues: A Fallout New Vegas Series (2019), now streaming on YouTube. In 2021, he was the director of photography for Daisy 23 Days, an indie sci-fi short film shot on location in Los Angeles. He has also written three feature length screenplays and one television pilot, one of which won the Best Sci-Fi Screenplay Award at the 2022 Cutting Room International Film Festival, and another that won Best Supernatural Screenplay at the 2023 New York Sci-Fi Film Festival. He describes himself as a purveyor of the supernatural genre, a student of the offbeat and bizarre, and an avid fan of all things lemon-flavored.
- IMDb mini biography by: Michael Natoli

When behind the camera- "Let's do that shot one more time"

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