Michael Normand(I)
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Michael Normand is a screenwriter, director, and founder of Film
Nouveau. He was born in Falkirk, Scotland, his grandfather having
settled there from Poland. Michael studied business & economics at Glasgow
Caledonian University before moving to London in the mid-1980s to
pursue a career in publishing. By the late 1980s he was also on the
London stand up circuit (under the name Finlay Michaels), and was
writing comedy for TV and radio. In 1993 he co-wrote (with Gary Sinyor)
the landmark British comedy Leon the Pig Farmer. He then wrote and
co-directed (with Rob Sherwin) the American comedy Dirty Laundry .
After a longer-than-planned bout of script-doctoring, Michael wrote co-produced and
directed Joe Smeal's Wheels, a docu-drama shot on the streets of
Glasgow. He has most recently written, produced and directed the 2012
Olympics-inspired mockumentary Blisters for Blighty.