Michael Wrenn (Invisible Republic) has been in the film industry for 25+ years working in exhibition, distribution, production, sales, and acquisitions in both the UK, France, and Australasia. Before this, he worked hard at completing a wayward education in bands, bars, and bordellos; running night clubs; working in kitchens, etc. while being sure to keep his reading and thinking up.

Since 2000 he has settled in Australia and New Zealand having run development for the New Zealand Film Commission; managed Australasian acquisitions for international sales companies Celluloid Dreams and Maximum Films; created distribution outfit Curious Distribution and worked with Arclight Films on all aspects of development and production.

Previously he was Head of Distribution for Momentum Films in the UK (now eOne) as well as senior roles with Alliance Atlantis, Kinowelt, and Electric Pictures working his way up from debt collection and print dispatch.

Michael has been Executive Producer on Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket (Berlin 2013 Best First Feature, Crystal Bear and Amnesty Prize), Ivan Sen’s Cannes selected Mystery Road (2014), Gillian Armstrong’s docu-drama Women He’s Undressed (2016) on Australian Academy Award Winner, Orry Kelly and, in 2017, Priscilla Cameron’s The Butterfly Tree (MIFF, TIFF) amongst others.

He was also Producer on the US adaptation of Ron Rash’s The World Made Straight, shot in North Carolina with an international cast including Noah Wyle, Jeremy Irvine, Minka Kelly, Haley Joel Osment, Steve Earle, Adelaide Clemens and directed by David Burris (Survivor) released in the US in 2015. Old bandmates, David and Michael went to high school together in Raleigh, North Carolina, and are developing other projects to make in the state.

He recently produced Three Summers by writer/director Ben Elton (Blackadder, The Young Ones, Queen: We Will Rock You) and French co-production Slam by writer/director Partho Sen-Gupta (Sunrise) as well as Foxtel documentary Harmony on the performance of Mahler’s 8th symphony (the ‘impossible symphony’ also known as the Cast of Thousands) by the Beijing based Chinese Philharmonic with Perth’s Western Australia Symphony Orchestra.