Michael Peers(I)

Michael Peers is a writer/director based in St. John’s, NL who started writing professionally through his work as an ecologist. He has written articles for scientific and popular magazines and was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal for his work on conservation philosophy under climate change. While researching snowshoe hares and Canada lynx at a remote cabin in the Yukon, he was involved in multiple wildlife documentaries that spurred an interest in film. Since then, his short films A Fish Story and Technophobic have screened at international film festivals, and his feature horror script The Night Maere was a winning project at the JETS Initiative at Berlinale. Michael recently shadowed the Emmy-nominated director Helen Shaver on the Netflix limited series Below, and he is directing the Telefilm funded feature documentary Invasivore which explores the invasive species issue through the lens of people eating them as a method of control.