Michele Granata was born in Ragusa on September 25, 1992. After graduating from high school he graduated in Philosophy at the Faculty of Studies of Padua with a thesis on Gilles Deleuze’s Image-Movement and its conceptual implications in philosophy, with supervisor Adone Brandalise. He moved to Rome and completed his studies with a master’s degree in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production at the faculty of Roma 3 where he graduated in July 2017 with a thesis on the character actors of Italian cinema with supervisor Stefania Parigi. After several jobs on the sets he begins his experience as a self-taught director between commercials and experimental short films. Occasionally he is also assistant director. He writes for several sites of film criticism and founded in 2016 a small independent production company, La Ricotta Produzioni.