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Executive Producer (Michael Vettor) After working for ESPN, Michael pursued additional opportunities and broadened his field television experience by working the freelance market as executive producer/director. From there he has expanded his talents to include sports and entertainment producing and directing for some of the industries top clients, including ESPN, NCAA Productions, ABC Sports and Fox Sports Net In 1994 he was Vice President of High Bar Productions as packager and producer/director for Arena Football and ESPN’s Body Shaping, Fitness Beach, and Flex Magazine workout. He is currently President of Michael Vettor Productions, Inc. where he acts as packager, consultant, producer and director for various entertainment, news and sports clients that seek out his knowledge, experience and the respected reputation he brings to any project he undertakes.
President and Principal Owner of True Life Cinema, serves a long list of clients with very different needs and production requirements. The production company's impressive list of credits include work for ECW Wrestling (Directing all of their live pay per view events as well as producing their weekly TV Series on TNN); WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), ESPN, the Biography Channel, Pioneer Entertainment, various TV shows and commercials. Working with artists Lindsay Lohan, Paul Heyman and Down for Low. Film credits for a Ron Howard Production “Beyond the Mat” working with Director / Screenwriter Barry Blaustein. Fashion Work with clients: Bruno Magli, Stuart Weitzman, Diesel and Michelle K. Corporate clients: UPS, XEROX, Model’s, IBM, West Point US Military Academy; and award winning presentations for The United Way.
Background includes Production Management major Rock Tours (Alice Cooper, Police, David Bowie, REM, The Monkeys, Blondie, and Site Management for music festivals Woodstock, Reggae Sumfest ; Managing Production Director of a number of major sports and entertainment events, Director of Live Events, Event Booking and Production for ECW. Director of Venue Operations and Marketing for numerous Expo’s and Shows (The Log Home and Timber Frame Expo, Pilates Style and ZestFest) Responsibilities: Managing Partner Web Master, Event Booker, and Production Manager for all live events.
The founder of NCCA, the National Custom Car Association, Andy was a show competitor for more than 5 years when he identified the need for standardization and consistency in judging the auto show scene. Taking on the challenge, he wrote the NCCA rulebook which has become recognized by the Tuning
industry as the official global guideline for car show preparation and judging.
The NCCA annually manages over 50 judging events for a total of 9 different
event producers in the United States, South America, Indonesia, the United
Kingdom and Canada. Clients include Hot Import Nights, Import Wars, Motorama
Association, Pulp Group and Clear Channel.
Andy also writes for several industry publications including HCI,
B-Scene, Speed Style and Sound, Streetrenz, and DialD to name a few, and he has
appeared on such televised programs as "R-Generation” and "Carlisle
Compacts” and has worked as a consultant for MTV.
Andy has also just completed the script of the Global Tuning Awards
Ceremony to broadcast on Fox Sport Network this August.
As if that’s not enough Andy is
also currently working with renowned author Tom Benford as the two are
co-authoring a Complete Idiot's Guide to Customizing Tuner Cars together with
Alpha/Penguin Publishing which is scheduled to be on shelves mid May of 2007 May of 2007. |
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