Michael Lavelle is an award-winning writer, director and cinematographer. He wrote and directed the highly acclaimed short film Out of the Blue, described as boasting “excellent performances, vivid production design and an economy of story-telling that mark the director as a talent to look out for in the future".

He is also the winner of the World Cinematography Award at Sundance 2010 for His and Hers and the Director of Photography on the IFTA and European Academy award-winning short film Undressing My Mother.

Mummy’s Little Helper, which he wrote and directed, was nominated for the Berlin Today Award 2011. He is currently in pre-production on the Irish Film Board's Signatures short film Cluck. He is also in development with Samson Films on the feature film 6 Hours  - a race against time thriller set in the Congo. Michael is attached to direct.