Michael Di Jiacomo is a director and writer living in New York City. He started his career as a writer working for MacArthur Genius Award winning dance theater and opera director Martha Clark. Their work together included collaborations with circus performers, acrobats and ballerinas. He has written and directed two feature films. His first, Animals, premiered at Sundance, and won or was nominated for several awards including winning the Special Jury Prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Japan and the Best Director award at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain. His second feature, Somewhere Tonight, premiered at Karlovy Vary, and won Best Film at the American Film Festival in Poland and Best Actor at the San Diego Film Festival. His work as a screenwriter includes The Revenge of the Green Dragons, a film he co-wrote, with Martin Scorcese executive producing and Andrew Lau directing; the Italian war epic Castlenuovo, which Roman Polanski asked him to write; Prince Jack, which John Turturro asked him to write, with Spike Lee producing; The Light Princess for director Gore Verbinski and Twentieth Century Fox.

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