Directing
Michael Basta
Michael Basta is a Director, Editor, Writer, and Producer with a degree in Film/Video Production from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. From 2016-2023, he worked in the entertainment industry as a Video Editor on Hulu’s marketing creative team. He's edited a wide range of promotional content: including trailers, teasers, social promos, brand spots, ad sales, sizzles, display units, and cultural campaigns. He currently work as a freelance video editor/producer. He's also a Co-Founder of an independent film collective called Omnes Films, which seek to fill a void in modern cinema with films made by friends that are passionate, ambitious, favor atmosphere over plot, and study the many forms of cultural decay in the 21st century. Whatever the subject or genre, it seeks projects that are original in conception and feel like they’ve never been made before.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
NRMarried ad salesman Bernard Wayland flounders through dive bars, strip malls, and other roadside pit stops in search of forbidden pleasures over the course of a three-day dental convention.
Raccoon
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NRMarried ad salesman Bernard Wayland flounders through dive bars, strip malls, and other roadside pit stops in search of forbidden pleasures over the course of a three-day dental convention.
Raccoon
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6.9As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.
Eephus
2025
6.9As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.
Eephus
2025
6.3A bizarre rite of passage at the local deli determines the fate of a generation of teenagers, leading some to escape their suburban town and dooming others to remain.
Ham on Rye
2021
A man sits on his porch each night and watches closely at someone who's been sleeping in their car. After a week of this he starts developing loose ideas of this mysterious person being some violent criminal.
An Absence
2012
5.0On a business trip, married ad salesman Bernard Wayland stumbles into the wrong motel room and finds himself confronted with a mischievous proposition.
Bernard Checks In
2021
5.0On a business trip, married ad salesman Bernard Wayland stumbles into the wrong motel room and finds himself confronted with a mischievous proposition.
Bernard Checks In
2021
5.0On a business trip, married ad salesman Bernard Wayland stumbles into the wrong motel room and finds himself confronted with a mischievous proposition.
Bernard Checks In
2021
Two lovers. Torn apart. Watch as the dreams unfold.
Fragments of Forever
2011
A surreal film about a kid who wanders into a house only to find himself in a nightmarish dinner scene.
Eat Your Meat
2011
A film about a character who searches for a song in his recently deceased father's record collection after hearing it in his recurring dream.
Remedy In Phrases
2011
A wounded kid tries to escape from a past incident.
Things Went Wrong
2010