Michael Adante · Australia & Los Angeles

Marketing.Production.Technology.

Three disciplines · One producer

I make things happen — a campaign, a film, a product. Twenty years of it, in marketing, project management and content creation, across Melbourne, Sydney, London, South America and Los Angeles.

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Commercials, music videos & branded films
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Feature films financed, produced & released
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Melbourne · Sydney · London · LA · South America
The three disciplines

Hands-on expertise on the entire pipeline allows for streamlining costs & increased productivity.

An audience has to be found, the content has to be made, and increasingly the thing it lives inside has to be built. I have run all three ends — brand campaigns, film and television production, and shipping software products.

Marketing

Campaigns that find an audience

Brand strategy through finished asset: what to say, who to say it to, and the content that makes them care.

  • Campaign & content strategy
  • TVCs, social-first content & cutdowns
  • Audience building — 100,000+ pre-release community
  • Copy, print & digital asset production
  • Market analysis & performance reporting
Ad platforms Google Ads Meta Ads Reddit Ads
Production

From brief to broadcast master

Feature film, television and short-form — financed, scheduled, shot, cut and delivered. On budget, on date.

  • Budgeting & scheduling (Movie Magic / EP)
  • Crewing, casting & on-set management
  • Post, grade, mix & multi-platform delivery
  • Rights, financing & distribution deals
  • Studio leadership — teams of 10+
Studio & funding partners Sony Pictures Screen Australia
Technology

Products, platforms & pipelines

Native apps and web platforms taken from idea to store listing — the same producing discipline, applied to software.

  • Native macOS, iOS & Android products
  • Web platforms & marketplaces
  • Product scope, roadmap & release management
  • AI-assisted production & post workflows
  • Analytics, funnels & store optimisation
Shipping on ProDesk Apple App Store Google Play
Body of work

Real projects. Brands built, campaigns run, films released.

Not a list of adjectives — the actual work, and what my hands were on in each one.

Marketing

Brand creation & online advertising

Identity and positioning built from zero, then the campaign creative that carries it — art direction, copy and assets cut for Meta and Google Ads.

FanForged brand identity

FanForged

Founder · Brand & growth

A fan-merch marketplace built from nothing: name, identity system, storefront, community launch and the paid social that fed it.

IdentityWebPaid socialEmail
RiskDesk campaign creative

RiskDesk

Product brand · Campaign creative

Positioning, art direction and ad creative for a trading-risk app — written and cut for Meta and Google Ads, plus App Store and Play listings.

Meta AdsGoogle AdsStore listing
HedgeDesk campaign creative

HedgeDesk

Product brand · Campaign creative

Campaign line, key visual and paid-social cutdowns for a multi-agent research tool across macOS, iOS and Android.

Meta AdsGoogle AdsKey art
OptionsDesk campaign creative

OptionsDesk

Product brand · Campaign creative

Problem-first ad concepts aimed at a specific trader mistake — the kind of creative that earns a click without a discount code.

Meta AdsGoogle AdsCopy
CashDesk campaign creative

CashDesk

Product brand · Campaign creative

Brand, campaign creative and store assets for a tax and cash-flow app covering five jurisdictions.

IdentityMeta AdsStore listing
100,000+

Lycanation — audience built before release

Sony Pictures · Co-Producer

Led the social team that built a six-figure fan community around a studio title pre-release, and extended the IP into a graphic-novel series.

CommunitySocialIP extension
Production

Features, television & 100+ short-form productions

Financed, scheduled, shot and delivered — from a two-day TVC to a 90-minute feature sold into eight territories.

Vanished

Vanished

Feature · AUD $1M · Producer / Director

Rights, finance and corporate structure, then physical production through to delivery in five territories. 2M+ streams, 250,000+ Redbox units.

FinancingProductionDistribution
The Line

The Line

Feature · AUD $250K · Producer / Director

Debut feature, financed independently and sold into Brazilian primetime and global VOD. Best Director nomination, Rhode Island Int’l FF.

FinancingDirectingWorld sales
Arcane Point teaser

Arcane Point

TV series · Showtime · Producer

Series bible and pilot developed with a US cable network; teaser produced in-house, from budget and schedule to delivery.

DevelopmentPilotUS network
Myths of the World pilot

Myths of the World

TV pilot · Shot in Brazil · Producer

Half-hour pilot (‘Saci Perere’) produced on location in South America — a foreign crew, a foreign language and the same delivery deadline.

InternationalPilotPost
Music video and commercial work

Commercials & music videos

100+ productions · Producer / Director

TVCs, music videos and brand films for Ford, BMW, Universal Music, Lavazza, Bunnings, British Paints, Kmart and Everlast — with 50 Cent, Bliss n Eso, Pete Murray and Savage.

TVCMusic videoBrand film
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Award-winning short films

Director / Writer · 2001–2005

Screened at Telluride, Melbourne, Paris, Chicago and Los Angeles festivals — all five streaming in the screening room below.

FestivalsDirectingEditing
Technology

Products shipped, not slide decks

Native apps taken from idea to store listing — the same producing discipline, applied to software.

RiskDesk app
RiskDesk · macOS, iOS, Android
HedgeDesk app
HedgeDesk · macOS, iOS, Android
CashDesk app
CashDesk · macOS, iOS, Android
OptionsDesk app
OptionsDesk · macOS, Android
Screening room

Don’t take the CV’s word for it. Watch it.

Both features, the Showtime teaser, the pilot and the short films — streaming here in full.

Vanished poster

Vanished

Producer · Director · Writer · 2011 · AUD $1M

A mother spends years hunting the people responsible for her son’s disappearance. I raised the finance, acquired the rights, built the corporate structure and ran production through to international delivery.

Pinnacle FilmsAU theatrical
Shoreline Ent.World sales · LA
250,000+ unitsUS Redbox via Osiris
2M+ streamsAmazon Prime
The Line poster

The Line

Producer · Director · Writer · 2007 · US: Without Warrant

A by-the-book detective is partnered with a renegade undercover cop to solve a gangland murder. My debut feature — financed, produced and directed independently, then sold into Brazilian primetime and global VOD.

Accent FilmsAU release
Bleiberg Ent.World sales · LA
Globosat, BrazilPrimetime network
Best Director nom.Rhode Island Int'l FF
Distribution & reach

Where the work ended up.

Two independent features, sold territory by territory and still streaming — plus a US studio deal and a cable network development slate.

Audience delivered

Streams & units, lifetime
VanishedAmazon Prime
2M+ streams
The LineAmazon Prime
1M+ streams
VanishedRedbox · US physical & VOD
250K+ units
LycanationPre-release community · Sony Pictures
100K+ fans
Bars are proportional to audience reached, not revenue.

Released into

Territories & platforms
AustraliaNorth AmericaUnited KingdomBrazil JapanSouth AfricaPortugal
Amazon PrimeApple iTunesRedboxGlobosatTheatricalDVD / VOD
How a project runs

The same six stages, whether it’s a 15-second cutdown or a 90-minute feature.

01

Brief & strategy

What it has to achieve, for whom, and what success gets measured against.

02

Concept & script

Treatment, script, storyboard and the creative team that can execute it.

03

Budget & schedule

Breakdown, quote, board and a schedule that survives contact with reality.

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Production

Crew, cast, locations, compliance and the shoot — run to the day and the dollar.

05

Post & finish

Edit, grade, sound, VFX, masters and every format the platforms demand.

06

Release & report

Delivery, campaign rollout, performance tracking and the numbers back to you.

Career arc

Editor to executive producer to founder — 2001 to now.

Twenty-five years, three disciplines

Colour = discipline
2001 2007 2011 2015 2021 NOW Editor & director Exit Films · Family Productions ‘The Line’ released Debut feature · Best Director nom. ‘Vanished’ released AUD $1M · Redbox · Amazon Sony Pictures · Showtime USD $1.5M studio finance Head of Production Tang Media, 2021–22 · studio of 10+ Product & platform Adante Media, 2025–
Production Marketing & leadership Technology
Clients, brands & partners

Studios, networks, labels, retailers and government.

Artist collaborations include 50 Cent · Bliss n Eso · Pete Murray · Savage · Phrase · Antiskeptic · Cinematica

About

A producer who reads the budget and the brief with the same attention.

I trained as a producer at the Victorian College of the Arts and as a writer at the University of South Australia, then spent two decades moving between worlds that usually stay separate: short-form brand content, long-form narrative, and — more recently — software.

That means a client gets a producer who can hold a campaign of social cutdowns, a TVC and a brand film in one schedule. A financier gets a producer who has closed studio deals, reported to government funding bodies and returned money to equity investors. And a product team gets someone who has actually shipped.

Australian citizen with USA B1 & E1 visas, working across Australia and Los Angeles.

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Bachelor of Film & TelevisionProducing · Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne · 2002
Bachelor of ArtsCommunications & Professional Writing · University of South Australia · 1999
AFTRS short coursesProducing & Directing Actors · Australian Film, Television & Radio School · 1998
Australian Directors’ GuildFull member
FestivalsShort films screened at Telluride, Melbourne, Paris, Chicago & Los Angeles
AwardsBest Director nomination — Rhode Island International Film Festival
Production toolsMovie Magic & EP Budgeting/Scheduling · Avid Media Composer · Adobe CS · DaVinci Resolve · Final Draft
CamerasARRI Alexa · RED · Blackmagic · Sony · Canon · DJI
ComplianceOHS · First Aid · Working with Children check · Police check
Contact

Let’s make something
worth watching.

Campaign, commercial, music video, television, feature or product — send me the brief, the script or the problem, and I’ll tell you honestly what it takes.