Michael Schelp

Michael Schelp is an American writer and director, former producer of the 2008 television series Cha$e, and former 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.

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

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.

Spark Plug Entertainment was a New York-based computer animation company founded by Michael Schelp in 2006. It is the American equivalent of Video Brinquedo, specializing in low-budget direct-to-video knock-off films, with just as much hate directed toward it. Its first film was Bug Bites: An Ant's Life, first released in 1998 originally by Sterling Entertainment Group and later re-released in 2006 as Spark Plug was established.

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