Michelle Caruso is an independent film Writer, Director, Producer and working professionally in the Art Department on various studio productions. With nine years of professional film experience, Michelle has been instrumental in working on projects such as Stranger Things, Baby Driver, and Robert Zemeckis’s Flight. Michelle began her creative journey at a young age by taking over a room with an ambitious craft or imagining stories for characters in her various fort builds out of natural elements or furniture fortifications. As a retired violinist, hobbyist photographer, painter, and sketch artist, the merging of artistic expressions is what attracted Michelle to filmmaking. As a storyteller, she strives to have themes and characters that audiences can empathize with, learn from, and want to experience over and over again.