Tanner Films has emerged as an exciting new production company that tackles difficult teenage issues such as peer pressure, bullying, and drunk driving. Tanner Films founder, Michael Tanner Cusumano, has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to communicate rich and complex tales through the medium of film. The 17-year-old director and producer, a junior at Sierra Canyon School, began his filmmaking career when he was only 12, having enrolled at a summer camp by the New York Film Academy.