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Michelle Clay
Filmmaker / Dreamer
"I have loved these books from the moment I finished the first read. I have been dreaming of adapting these great works to films most of my adult life. I am certain, As soon as audiences get to know the brilliant story of these two brothers and how they grow into men in the shadow of impending war. They will fall in love with them too.
In a cinematic landscape of reboots and remakes, Geraldine Harris Pinch has crafted an original spectacular, emotional unrequited fantasy that moviegoers of the 21st century crave."
Michelle's Story
“I’m just a Thelma looking for her Marty, in hopes that we’ll one day make great stories together.”
Michelle discovered editing betwixt her sophomore and junior year of undergraduate studies, when three things happened. She landed a part-time job at Blockbuster Video, did summer workstudy at Goucher College’s video production studio and developed an unreasonable crush on actor Christian Slater. This serendipitous collision of circumstances birthed an indelible new awareness of the most elegant invisible art within filmmaking and ignited a passion that would send her west in search of a beautiful career in editing narrative features.
Many moons later, she has not been able to make that happen. So she has taken matters into her own hands; in the spirit of Robert Rodriguez himself, she has begin telling her stories through feature films, by any means necessary.
Michelle has been a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild since 2001 and worked as an assistant on cable series (“Pysch”, “South of Nowhere”), as well as in series programming for TV Guide Network (“What’s The 411”, “Hollywood on Set”, “America’s Next Producer”). She has edited three independent features (Life on a Leash [2002], Windstorm [2006], The Road to Sundance [2009) and the web series “the Unwritten Rules” to her credit. She has edited dozens of music videos, commercials and narrative shorts. A graduate of the MFA Film program at Art Center College of Design, Michelle has bumped up her knowledge of the evolving technologies incorporated in 21st Century filmmaking and positioned herself among the finest new crop of talented filmmakers.
As a producer, Michelle Clay has worked on several short form projects for Abby Normal Productions including such titles as “The Bystanders”, “The Way You Are”, “#Captive” and “The R Word.” She worked on the third and final season of the award winning web series “The Marriage Tour”, web series, created by David Tinsley at TinBridge Productions. As director, she has worked on episodes of “The Unwritten Rules (Lions, Tigers, and Pig! Oh, My!)” and “Everything I Did Wrong in My 20s (The Success Moment)” – both soon to air on TV ONE.
Better Half is the second feature length film Michelle has written, produced and directed*. It enjoyed a great run on the festival circuit, bringing this original LGBT romantic drama to Raleigh, North Carolina, and Kansas City, as well as international festivals in Mumbia, India, Edmonton, Canada and Sydney, Australia.
Michelle's more recent accomplishment include being an award-winning producer and editor for Cityview Channel 35 in Los Angeles. She was part of the producing team who won the SCAN-NATOA Governor's award for outstanding regional coverage of the
COVID-19 Pandemic.
Upon meeting Mrs. Geraldine Pinch, her professional sights have been fixed on getting
the adaptations of the Seven Citadels novels to the big screen. And her journey continues.
*Michelle was an un-credited co-director on the feature film The Road to Sundance.