Michael Baumgarten

A native of Key West filmmaker Michael Baumgarten attended high school and film production classes in Orlando Florida His first professional year in the biz was spent doing production assistant gigs on commercials indie film projects an MTV Spring Break special and the studio movies Oscar Honey I Blew Up The Kid and Problem Child 2 Michael later moved to Los Angeles in 1995 where he did assistant director gigs worked as an executive assistant for a Century City film finance company and then held assistant to the producer positions on movies such as Wedding Bell Blues and Kiss Toledo Goodbye Michael also devoted over 3 years to the theatrical distribution company Legacy Releasing where he served as the Director of Acquisitions After a decade of experience under his belt Michael started writing and producing with the comedydrama feature film Roomies Michael followed that up with 3 seasons of segment producing the hit show MTV Taildaters and moonlighted as a line producer on awardwinning films such as Exodus Fall Michael also wrote and produced the awardwinning feature Smitty As a screenwriter and director Michael has directed 6 features from his screenplays and is best known for writing and directing the award winning antibullying comedydrama The Martial Arts Kid and the awardwinning actioncomedy Paying Mr McGetty Michael also wrote the screenplay for LionsGates scififamily film The Adventure of ARI My Robot Friend 2020 and he has readytoproduce screenplays available that include the teen crime drama Suburban Gangstas the sequel The Martial Arts Kid 2 Payback the buddy comedy Man Campers the female in danger drama Cyber Star the teen romantic comedy My Social Media Nightmare and the actionpacked vampire trilogy Blood Walkers