Michelle Serieux is a Caribbean filmmaker originally from St Lucia, local to Jamaica, NYC and Miami, working in fiction, non-fiction and interactive media. Her creative development has been supported by the Sundance Institute/Miami Filmmaker’s Collective, Tribeca Film Institute, Chicken and Egg Pictures, The Alter-Cine Foundation, amongst others. Her work has screened at film festivals and art spaces in the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the Americas. She holds a MA in Film + Cinema Studies from Columbia University (Honours in Narrative Strategies for New Media) and a BA (First Class Honours) in Media and Communication, Drama and Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies.

Michelle’s most recent international collaboration is as producer on Don’t Come Searching, a feature length documentary about a Caribbean migrant farmer in Canada and the family left behind. The film made its world premiere at HotDocs 2022 and is currently on the film festival circuit.