Michael was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, grew up in Israel and lives in Brazil since 2004. In 2007 he graduated the FAAP Film Dep. in Sao Paulo. His short films AVÓS (2009), OMA (2011), THE BEAST (2016) and his feature film AVANTI POPOLO (2012) were shown in many international and national festivals, as the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, Berlinale, Rotterdam and Brasília and received more than 60 awards over the years. As producer, he funded SANCHO&PUNTA and produced feature films such as LOS TERRITORIOS (The Territories), by Ivan Granovsky (Rotterdam 2017); INVISIBLE, by Pablo Giorgelli (Venice, Orizzonti 2017); ELON NÃO ACREDITA NA MORTE (Elon Doesn't Believe in Death) by Ricardo Alves Jr (Rotterdam 2017) and is associate producer of ZAMA by Lucrécia Martel (Venice 2017), among others.
He is currently developing his new feature film project as director, PAINLESS, co-written with Alejandro Fadel and Diego Lerer. The project got the Ibermedia fund for development and is participating in the Ikusmira Berriak program of the San Sebastian Film Festival.