Michael O’Bernicia Net Worth is
$15 Million

Mini Biography

Once referred to as “the Zelig of stand-up comedy”, Michael was an irregular for the London circuit from 1991 right up until 2003 and it has performed about expenses with award-winning comics such as for example Lee Evans, Jenny Eclair, Eddie Izard, John Thompson, Expenses Bayley, Phil Jupitus, Jerry Sadowitz and Johnny Vegas, among numerous others. After just 37 gigs, the twenty-two yr older comic was recognized by stand-up journal, The Heckler, as “someone to watch for the near future”. Michael was a founding person in Screaming Skull Theater Company, that he wrote two critically acclaimed stage has; Nightlights and THE REALITY Video game. Nightlights was referred to as “a skilled light satire” by TimeOut newspaper and acquired two effective fringe theatre works in London. The Truth Video game was an overnight fringe theatre achievement. The Guide’s Rosemary Furber defined it as “An urgent treasure… amusing and beautifully built”. On the ultimate night of the very first three-week work on the Birdsnest Theater in Deptford, London, Michael was contacted by an unbiased film production firm to build up the play for the display screen. Another eighteen a few months were spent dealing with legendary guerrilla filmmakers, Kino-Eye Movies, where time Michael wrote and performed in his Uk television debut, Small England, that was sold to Route 4 in July 1996. Through the same month, Michael graduated in the acclaimed Dov Simens’ 2 Time Film School. Shortly soon after, Michael still left Kino-Eye and go about producing and directing his own screenplays. He also began teaching stand-up humor at arts centres in London as well as the south east of Britain. Over the following five years, his workshops nurtured countless new-act competition winners, one Edinburgh Fringe Ideal Newcomer and several various other full-time, professional comics, like the matchless, Josie Long. Within the bleak early winter of 1998, Michael co-produced and co-directed a fifteen minute short called Roadkill, with scriptwriter, Tony Chamberlain. The film was shot in glorious 35mm within the Breacon Beacons and starred well-known Welsh stars Brian Hibbard (The Traveling Pickets), Dorian Thomas (Twin City), Dylis Pryce (Under Dairy Timber) and Helen Griffin (Individual Traffic), in addition to Monty Python experienced, John Scott Martyn. The film screened at several festivals, including Raindance, Leeds, Cardiff and Cannes. It had been broadcast double on Sky Moviemax in 2000, when it had been also reviewed altogether Film as “amusing and magnificently shot”. Shortly soon after, Roadkill screened for 90 days in Welsh cinemas, prior to the Anthony Hopkins blockbuster, Hanibal. After appearing in Small England, Michael performed a leading function within the award-winning short film, Rockin’ Seat, in addition to making Television cameo appearances in Coming in contact with Bad II and Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased). He was also the facial skin of BBC Talent Search 2002, when he performed a temperamental wedding ceremony video director, within an infomercial which was specially created for him. 2004 saw the discharge of THE NICE CopP, starring Kim Bodnia, Iben Hjejle and Rene Diff. The Danish vocabulary action comedy proceeded to go right in at number 1 in the Danish box-office and it has grossed around US$10m. Michael was Co-Producer within the film and his creation and sales firm, Unspeakably Wicked Images [UWP], released the film on the Cannes Market. Then, within the springtime of 2005, Michael’s controversial debut feature film, Nefarious, a fast-moving, micro-budget thriller in regards to the hypocrisy from the medications laws and regulations, was shot, guerrilla-style, in London, Amsterdam as well as the North East of Britain, in only seventeen days, having a cash spending budget of £17,000. Despite having been finished in 2008, the remastered film’s long-awaited worldwide release is definitely finally slated for the summertime of 2017. After changing his professional name from Knighton to O’Bernicia for legal reasons, Michael co-founded development, production and distribution outfit, Anarcho-Film Productions [A-FP]; and spent some time working from 2009-2016 as producer-writer-director-editor of THE FANTASTIC British Home loan Swindle, a coruscating documentary feature about institutionalised home loan fraud as well as the genocide of eviction, that is also arranged for its worldwide launch in 2017.

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