Name Michael Bellavia | Role Producer | |
Education University of Michigan, Columbia Business School People also search for Dave Thomas, Amanda Lehner Nominations Shorty Industry Award for Best Real-Time Response | ||
Michael Bellavia is the CEO of Animax Entertainment, a studio that produces and markets video and interactive content. He earned his BS in Engineering from the University of Michigan and his MBA from Columbia Business School. He is a former Chair of the Producers Guild of America New Media Council, a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a founder of Night Light Interactive and a former mentor at the American Film Institute's Digital Content Lab.
He is also an owner of HelpsGood, an advertising agency in Brooklyn and Los Angeles that works with nonprofits including the Ad Council on the Smokey Bear campaign for which HelpsGood was the recipient of the 2014 Gold Smokey Bear Award. In October 2012, he co-founded the Million Puppet March that marched on the National Mall in Washington, D.C..
Bellavia is also an improviser at IO West (the Los Angeles outpost of IO Chicago), Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and The Second City in Los Angeles. He has been a contestant on several game shows, including Wheel of Fortune, Smush, Pyramid, Boom!, Lingo, The Great Escape, and On the Cover. Bellavia is also a producer with more than 30 production credits.
In 2006 Bellavia won one of the first broadband Emmy Awards for a series of animated shorts that were produced for ESPN. Animax was nominated for another Emmy in 2007.