Michael D'Anna

D'Anna began his filmmaking career in the early 1990s editing commercials and documentaries for clients throughout the southeastern United States. He then made the move into documentary filmmaking in 1998 with the television series Religions of the World, hosted by Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley.

A lifelong devotee of the horror film genre, he made his feature directorial debut in 2007 with the Lionsgate release Side Sho, taking home the award for Best Feature Film at the 2007 Terror Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.terrorfilmfestival.net/_wsn/page6.html |title=TERROR FILM FESTIVAL - the Claw Awards |accessdate=2010-02-18 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206041605/http://terrorfilmfestival.net/_wsn/page6.html |archivedate=February 6, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}

As of 2011, D'Anna teaches directing and documentary filmmaking at the Nashville Film Institute{{cite web |url=http://thenfi.com/faculty.html |title=The Nashville Film Institute |accessdate=2010-02-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615064237/http://thenfi.com/faculty.html |archivedate=June 15, 2009 |df=mdy-all }} in Franklin, Tennessee. He is also a dealer & collector of rare movie posters and memorabilia, with one of the largest collections in the southeastern United States.

• Religions of the World (1998) – Director, film editor
• The Shelter (2005 film) – Editor
• Side Sho (2007) – Director, editor
• Chainsaw Cheerleaders (2009) – Editor
• Dogheads (2010) – Director, writer
• Dark as a Dungeon (2011) – Director, writer

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Category:1972 births

Category:Living people

Category:Mass media people from Nashville, Tennessee

Category:American horror film directors

Category:Film directors from Tennessee

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