Michael Schelp

Michael Schelp is an American writer and director, former producer of the 2008 television series Cha$e, and current executive producer of MANswers. Schelp founded the New York-based production company Spark Plug Entertainment in 2006. The company has created several mockbuster direct-to-video CGI films.

Career

In the 1990s, Schelp was Fujisankei Communications Group's spokesperson and manager of business development.^[1][2] In 2007, Schelp became producer for MANswers, a project of Fujisankei Communications International.^[3] Schelp has also acted as translator for Fujisankei, both in creating English subtitless for such projects as Dragon League, and in acting a interpretor for Fujisankei food star Harumi Kurihara when she visited the United States.^[4]

While with Fujisankei, Schelp founded Spark Plug Entertainment in 2006 as a New York-based production company to produce direct-to-video CGI films that were based on films from Pixar, DreamWorks as well as other major studios.

Filmography

• Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (1998) (V) (writer/producer) (Re-released 2006)
• A Car's Life (2006) (V)
• Spider's Web: A Pig's Tale (2006) (V) (writer/director)
• Plan Bee (2007) (V) (writer/director/producer)
• Piper Penguin and his Fantastic Flying Machines (2008) (V)
• Cha$e (6 episodes, 2008) (TV) (producer)
• MANswers (19 episodes, 2007–2010) (producer/executive producer)

References

1. ^ Watanabe, Teresa (6 May 1991). "Japanese Media Try to Export Coverage". Los Angeles Times. pp. Business; PART-D; page 1. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61281787.html?dids=61281787:61281787&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+06%2C+1991&author=TERESA+WATANABE&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=PACIFIC+REPORT+Japanese+Media+Try+to+Export+Coverage&pqatl=google. Retrieved 29 January 2010. 
2. ^ Toy, Vivian S. (13 August 1995). "WNYC Fans Fear Programming Loss". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/13/nyregion/wnyc-fans-fear-programming-loss.html. Retrieved 29 January 2010. 
3. ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (13 December 2007). "More 'MANswers' at Spike". Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i5c17ffd0184ef92e373956f3294e979f. Retrieved 29 January 2010. ^{[dead link]}
4. ^ Brunskill, Joan (26 April 2006). "Japanese star has own take on tradition". Associated Press (The Free Lance–Star). http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Oow1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=qggGAAAAIBAJ&pg=6632,8018672&dq=michael-schelp&hl=en. Retrieved 29 January 2010. 

External links

• Michael Schelp at the Internet Movie Database

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