Michele Civetta

April 3, 2020 Mr Civetta's Feature Film Agony was released via Gravitas Ventures. A psychological thriller starring Asia Argento, Rade Serbedzija, Ninetto Davoli, Monica Guerritore and Franco Nero. The film has received positive critical reception upon its release. [1]</ref>

In 2016 Civetta's commercial Halloween Today for NBC was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Civetta embarked on a psychedelic surf film for the New York-based label Mexican summer as a collaboration with members of MGMT, Ariel Pink and Connan Mockasin. Shooting began in Nicaragua fall 2014.

Civetta was preparing a film based on the international bestseller Coin Locker Babies that was scheduled to shoot in the summer of 2010 in Thailand and Japan, a co-production between Don Murphy's Angry Films. Production was delayed to 2013; by May of that year, the project had been renamed Regular Boy, and it was listed on IMDb as being in "pre-production". In 2015 it was reported to be in development again with the same script and director, now starring Vincent Gallo, Liv Tyler, Asia Argento and Sean Lennon.

Civetta was married to Italian actress Asia Argento, the couple married on August 27, 2008 in Arezzo. The couple lived in Rome with their son Nicola Civetta. The couple divorced in 2013.

Michele Civetta is an Emmy nominated director. Over the years Civetta has directed videos for Lou Reed, Sparklehorse, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Marracash, Ladytron, Yoko Ono. Commercials for Coca-Cola, Martini & Rossi, Cingular wireless, Badoit mineral water. In 2006 Civetta wrote and directed a musical feature for Sean Lennon's Capitol Records release Friendly Fire. The 50-minute film debuted January 2008 on Mark Cuban's HDNet channel.