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Michael Basta
Michael Basta is a Director, Editor, Writer, and Producer with a degree in Film/Video Production from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. From 2016-2023, he worked in the entertainment industry as a Video Editor on Hulu’s marketing creative team. He's edited a wide range of promotional content: including trailers, teasers, social promos, brand spots, ad sales, sizzles, display units, and cult…
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Chunks · 2026Chunks
2026
MovieComedy
An anthology film of six unique comedy shorts threaded together with your host, faded Hollywood starlet Ruby, and taking inspiration from the glamourous by-gone era of late nite public access weirdness. With live action shorts featuring originals from Podcast About List, Sandy Honig, Nate Fisher & Will Senett, and two animated segments from Episode 1 & Jim Soper, and Nick Mullen & Saul Crinier.
RaccoonRaccoon
MovieComedyDrama
Married ad salesman Bernard Wayland flounders through dive bars, strip malls, and other roadside pit stops in search of forbidden pleasures over the course of a three-day dental convention.
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point · 2024Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
★ 5.32024
MovieDramaComedy
A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.
Bernard Checks In · 2021Bernard Checks In
★ 5.02021
MovieComedy
On a business trip, married ad salesman Bernard Wayland stumbles into the wrong motel room and finds himself confronted with a mischievous proposition.
Eephus · 2025Eephus
★ 7.02025
MovieDramaComedy
As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.
Topology of Sirens · 2021Topology of Sirens
★ 6.02021
MovieMystery
After discovering a set of cryptic microcassettes in her new home, Cas is drawn into a meditative mystery of environmental sound and experimental music.
Ham on Rye · 2021Ham on Rye
★ 6.32021
MovieDramaFantasy
A bizarre journey that leads some teenagers, adult life is not as easy as they let them know, but continuing to aspire to be, does not lead them to anything good knowing that they are all miserable
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