Michael Haussman is a director, writer and artist living in Rome, Italy. His movies have won six international film festivals and premiered in Cannes, Sundance, Venice, and Berlin. In 2022 Michael won Best Director at the Septimius Awards, for his film Edge of The World, the true story of James Brooke, who inspired The Man Who Would Be King and Heart Of Darkness. Michael has done music videos for many artists including Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Chemical Brothers, Shakira, Kanye West, and Rita Ora, winning six MTV Music Video Awards and the Museum of Modern Art award. His award-winning ad campaigns include Levi’s, Diesel, Absolut, Bulgari, BMW, Yves Saint Laurent, Guinness, and many more. Michael Haussman’s video art exhibition, Gravity, premiered at Los Angeles Pacific Design Center, was chosen by L.A. Weekly as “top three of the ten best art exhibitions in LA.” Gravity was presented in Berlin and Cannes.