Michael Fenton Crenshaw was born and brought up in the Lewisham area of South East London.

He started making short films on Super 8 in 1986, using his Dad's 1970s cine camera. Only a few of these films still exist.

During the mid 1990's he was part of the South East London Avant-Garde Cartel, a group of writers, photographers, musicians, artists and filmmakers based at The Albany in Deptford. In 1996 he co-produced the film Beat Is Dead with Kenton Elbert Jnr, who he is still friends with to this day. Beat Is Dead was filmed in and around the New Cross area of South East London. It became notorious at the time for its graphic depiction of heroin abuse and addiction. It was shot on 16mm odds and ends in the summer of 1996, but it has since been lost.

He made his first feature length film, The Left Hand Path in 2014. He completed The Left Hand Trilogy (The Left Hand Path, House of the Laughing Cuckoo Clocks and Shunner) in 2021, and Don't Cry for Bombardier in 2022. This was followed by Fat Eye Blink Blink and The Lightkeeper, both in 2023.

In full circle of forty years, he has recently gone back to making short films.

His next project, We Plastic Man, has no definite release date at the present time.

Michael now lives in the Orpington area of Greater London, England. He also spends time on Dartmoor in Devon and Margate in Kent.