Michael is an Irish screenwriter and director. He studied directing at the National Film and Television School in London, is an award winning writer/director of five short films and is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and the ScriptLab at Torino Film Lab. His first produced feature script, STRANGERLAND, had it’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and stars Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes and Hugo Weaving. THE SPARROW, his debut feature as writer/director, will shoot in Spring 2020.