Michael Peterson(IV)

For twenty years, Michael Davis Peterson has pursued a unique and winding path in the film industry. Early in his career, at age 20, he achieved a dream position in the Hollywood film industry as a special makeup effects artist. At age 29 he opened his own Makeup design studio, Image Alchemy Productions which became the largest Special Makeup effects studio in Arizona. After 6 years Michael decided to change focus to Producing, Directing, and Writing film and video content. Over the last 5 years Michael has dedicated himself to the art of filmmaking with a youthful enthusiasm. Since changing career trajectory, Michael has sold screenplays, produced countless video content for web, and TV , and a hand full of short films. He is attending MSU film school and is working towards his masters in filmmaking. In 2017 he won the prestigious Presidential Emerging Scholar grant for film making and in 2018 spent four weeks in Morocco shooting a documentary on an indigenous community in the High Atlas mountains. Michael works closely with clients and filmmakers on projects that became successful at telling impactful stories with integrity and insight. For Michael, each project is special and unique. On every project, relationships are formed, content is created and distributed. On every project Michael's intention is to tell a truthful stories that escorts him as he builds his own path, brick by brick.