Career
Michael has directed 14 feature-length films/television movies and over 200 prime-time drama and comedy television episodes including the entire first season of the ground-breaking sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie. Besides the pilot of Little Mosque, he also directed the first episodes filmed and/or aired of My Life and a Movie, North/South, The Good Germany, Mental Block, Listen Missy, Screech Owls, Prize ring (The), Taking the Falls, and Jets. He was also one of the directors of the acclaimed comedy series The Kids in the Hall, and directed 14 episodes of Made in Canada.
Michael has directed feature films in many countries: Jets was filmed in Germany and the United States, Broken Lullaby in Budapest, One Manitoba Out in Mexico, Caribe in Belize, Calculated Risk in Germany, and nine others in Canada.
He also wrote the screenplays for three of the feature films he directed. (uncredited).
