Michael Rizzo
Title
- Art Director
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Specialties
BRIDGES MANAGEMENT & CREATIVITY
   - Filmmaker with 30-yearsexperience for film, television, theme park and theater.
   - Managed art departments up to 100 people on time-constrained projects, directing budgets over $2M
MAINSTREAM MEDIA PROJECTS
  - Doublexposure: Dr. Del
  - Paramount: Glee, Fox Television
  - Universal / Touchstone: Ghost Whisperer [CBS]
  - Paramount: Vanilla Sky
  - Warner Bros: JFK,  My Fellow Americans,  Murder in the First
  - Lifetime: State of Mind
  - Columbia Pictures: So I Married An Axe-Murderer
  - 20th Century-Fox: My Cousin Vinny
  - Morgan Creek: White Sands
  - Disney: Rocketman, Tom & Huck
  - Turner Television: The Hunley, The Day Lincoln Was Shot [TNT]
PROVEN SKILLSET
  - Creativity Management
      - Straddles business and creative corporate commerce
      - Creates powerful, visual metaphor
      - Keeps up-to-date in technological skills
  - Project Management
      - Driven by a sharp sense of priority, organizing ability and attention to detail
      - Creates project plans and adheres to timeline & budgetary restrictions with disciplined follow through
      - Manages job specifications and quality control in office and with on-location sub-contractors
      - Staffs teams with highly-skilled, cutting-edge, creative/business talent
      - Insures highest quality standards for final product
      - Builds long-term, mutually satisfying interactions for continued business
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  - Published author: The Art Direction Handbook for Film and Television, 2nd edition for Focal Press-Elsevier, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., August 2014.
  - Led many $.5 to $2+M projects meeting strict requirements for capital, labor and cost justification
  - Established efficient and cost-effective departmental processes for upper management & production staff
  - Ensured product compliance with OSHA standards, meeting operational safety and quality guidelines
  - Supervised work nationally and internationally. Recently: 20th C. Fox World, Malaysia and Universal Studios Singapore.
DIGITAL SKILLS
  - SketchUp Pro, Adobe CS, and Microsoft Office Suite
TEACHING
  - Santa Monica College:  Academy of Entertainment Technology:  “Production Design for TV & Film”
  - American Intercontinental University:  “Visualization for Media”
RECOGNITION
  - Nominee, 1999 Art Director’s Guild Award for Best One-Camera Episodic TV design: The Hunley
  - Nominee, 2010 Art Director’s Guild Award for Best One-Camera Episodic TV design: Glee

 
     
     
    