Michael Malott is an award winning music industry veteran of 30+ years who had his first experience in film as the writer and producer of the highly publicized Corporate Vacation film project in the late 90's which featured commitments from several major music personalities to make film acting appearances including Jon Bon Jovi and Tico Torres (Bon Jovi), Arlo Guthrie, Frank Bello (Anthrax) Junior Marvin (The Wailers), Tad Doyle, Sally Richardson, Franke Previte, Culture, Judy Tenuta, K.C. (K.C. & The Sunshine Band) Andrew Tosh, Emo Philips and others to his film project. The project was eventually sold to a third party production company and he returned to the music industry until 2020 when he launched the Florida based film company, Bad Clown Films with the intent of producing low-budget independent horror films.