Biography

Michael Davies is a BAFTA and RTS award-winning writer and director, currently with three feature film projects in development, including THE CAPTIVE HEART, a romantic adventure set on the Amalfi coast, which is due to film in 2024.

Michael frequently works with RADA, directing plays and rehearsed readings of new work. His film scripts for THE CAPTIVE HEART and PSYCHOPOMP, a paranormal romantic comedy (supported by the Wellcome Trust) have been developed with the Academy.

Michael's short film WHAT'S VIRGIN MEAN? screened at over sixty international festivals, winning eight awards and attracting more than ten million hits on YouTube. Unusually for a short, it also made a profit. LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, starring John Hurt and Phyllida Law, won fifteen awards, including an RTS, Rushes and Raindance, and was shortlisted for an Oscar.

Following a BA in Drama from Manchester University and an MA in Film and Television from Bristol University, Michael began his career at the BBC making a wide range of critically acclaimed documentaries, followed by drama-documentaries for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 (including seven films with producer Beryl Vertue at Hartswood), as well as dramatised adventure films for Discovery Channel.

Michael was selected for the BFI London Film Festival's course for 'emerging feature film directors', won a place on the Directing Actors course at the NFTS, and made the shortlist for the prestigious BBC TV Drama Writers Programme. Michael also directed fourteen episodes of the hit BBC children's drama Tracy Beaker Returns, winning a BAFTA and two more RTS awards.
- IMDb mini biography by: MJD