I write to explore the systems dictating our lives — whether shaped by nature or humanity. Our world's contradictions, values, unknowns, and quiet horrors. If a work leaves you unsettled or questioning what it means to be human, it's doing its job.
Michael Moore began writing in May 2025, having now completed 13 original screenplays. His scripts have earned a 70% placement rate across 50+ festival submissions, including multiple placements at FilmQuest, Atlanta Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, Vail Film Festival, Flickers' Rhode Island, Fade In Awards, DaVinci-Storyline (Writers' Corner), Glendale International Film Festival, Vancouver Horror Show, and Filmmatic, along with 12 best screenplay wins by 7 different scripts.
What We Carry (feature) follows a dying neuroscientist that manipulates her husband into a fatal consciousness transfer — then awakens trapped in fractured memory loops of her own design, forced to confront how her desperation orphaned the daughter she sought to protect.
Collective Unknown is a limited series where different versions of the same characters explore buried memory, recursion, and the hidden artifacts that echo across time — where identity, purpose, and fate intertwine in a world where humanity's search for meaning may outlive its existence.
Affect Protocol is an interconnected anthology exploring a near-future shaped by emotional optimization. Each episode examines how systems designed to maximize efficiency, safety, and progress gradually narrow the human experience — scoring our grief, categorizing our empathy, streamlining our love — until we mistake reduction for refinement. The series doesn't position technology as villain; it interrogates our complicity in trading emotional complexity for measurable advantage. What remains when feeling becomes a data point? When identity becomes yield? Beneath each standalone narrative runs a hidden spine: an infrastructure refining humanity itself, one well-intentioned iteration at a time.
Wrench Kings is an industrial sci-fi / drama series set in a post-automation future ruled by labor guilds, exploring a world rebuilt by the very people society once discarded — scavengers, builders, gardeners, healers, sentinels, and couriers — after artificial intelligence failed the former ruling class that lived above the clouds.
His latest script, not THAT kind, is his most personal. It explores the quiet tension of navigating institutional spaces where success requires restraint, and authenticity must be strategically managed. It is not a story about overt exclusion, but about the subtler pressure to narrow oneself in order to thrive. It anchors his newest anthology — Necessary Silence, which explores deeply personal fears through intimate drama. Each episode examines what we sacrifice in the name of survival — and what parts of us quietly die...unless we go back for them.
His goal is to create narratives that engage both thoughtful genre audiences and industry professionals looking for fresh, emotionally intelligent storytelling.
Drawing from lived experience and thematic curiosity, Michael’s work interrogates what it means to stay human, and what or who decides. His stories are cinematic, layered, and emotionally restrained — designed to linger long after the final frame.
Semi-Finalist Best Screenplay
Shadows
Zed Fest Film Festival & Screenplay Contest
Burbank, CA
2026
Finalist Best Screenplay
Shadows
Wiki: The World's Fastest Screenplay Contest!
Beverly Hills, CA
2026
Winner Best Sci-FI Screenplay
Cop or Cone
Oregon Short Film Festival
Portland, OR
2026
Finalist Best Short Screenplay Dark Sci-Fi
Classification: Human
Oregon Short Film Festival
Portland, OR
2026
2nd Place Best Short Screenplay
Retrograde
International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival
Phoenix, AZ
2026
Winner Best Dark Sci-FI Screenplay
Final Draft
Oregon Short Film Festival
Portland, OR
2026
Semi-Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Classification: Human
The Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival
Vancouver, British Columbia V5T 2K3
2025
Semi-Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Classification: Human
HorrorFest International Film Festival
St. George, UT
2025
Winner Best Screenplay
Classification: Human
Art Experimental Film Festival
Tbisili, Tbisili
2025
Short List
Classification: Human
Barnstorm Fest
Los Angeles, CA
2025
Quarterly Winner Best Short Screenplay
Classification: Human
Zepstone International Film Festival
Salt Lake City, UT
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Moonshot
International Indie Film & Screenplay Festival
Paris, France
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Moonshot
Austin Under The Stars Film Festival
Ausint, TX
2025
Quarter-Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Moonshot
FilmQuest Festival
Provo, UT
2025
Semi-Finalist Best Screenplay
Moonshot
DIFF-Storyline (DaVinci Writers' Corner)
Los Angeles, CA
2025
Semi-Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Moonshot
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival
Providence, RI
2025
Finalist Best Screenplay
Moonshot
Filmmatic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Awards
Los Angeles, CA
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Moonshot
Glendale International Film Festival
Glendale, CA
2025
Winner Best Short Screenplay Dark Sci-Fi
Moonshot
Austin After Dark Film Festival
Austin, TX
2025
Winner Best Short Screenplay
Moonshot
The New York Science Fiction and Horror Film Festival
New York, NY
2025
Quarter-Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Oceandrop
Your Script Produced!
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Oceandrop
Glendale International Film Festival
Glendale, CA
2025
Semi-Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Oceandrop
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival
Providence, RI
2025
Quarter-Finalist Feature Screenplay
Shadows
Page Turner 100
Santa Monica, CA
2025
Semi-Finalist
Retrograde
Filmmatic TV Pilot Awards
Los Angeles, CA
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Retrograde
Wiki Screenplay Contest
Beverly Hills, CA
2025
Finalist Best Screenplay
Retrograde
DIFF-Storyline (DaVinci Writers' Corner)
Los Angeles, CA
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Retrograde
Vail Film Festival
Vail, CO
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Final Draft
Wiki: The World's Fastest Screenplay Contest!
Beverly Hills, CA
2025
Quarter-Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Final Draft
The Vancouver Horrow Show Film Festival
Vancouver, British Columbia V5T 2K3
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay Dark Sci-Fi
Final Draft
Austin After Dark Film Festival
Austin, TX
2025
Finalist Best Screenplay
Final Draft
DIFF-Storyline (DaVinci Writers' Corner)
Los Angeles, CA
2025
Semi-Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Final Draft
FilmQuest Festival
Provo, UT
2025
Round Winner Best Short Screenplay
Final Draft
Zepstone International Film Festival
Salt Lake City, UT
2025
Finalist Unproduced Short Screenplay
Classification: Human
Amazing Horror Fantasy Fest
Buffalo, NY
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Classification: Human
The Dunwich Horror Fest
Dunwich, MA
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Classification: Human
International Indie Film & Screenplay Festival
Paris, France
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay Dark Sci-Fi
Classification: Human
Austin After Dark Film Festival
Austin, TX
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Classification: Human
New York Script Awards
New York, NY
2025
Finalist Best Short Screenplay
Classification: Human
Chicago Script Awards
Chicago, IL
2025
Winner Best Screenplay Dark Fantasy
Oceandrop
Austin After Dark Film Festival
Austin, TX
2025
College
Xavier University
B.S. Business Finance
20102014
College
Vanderbilt University Law School
20142017
Birth Date
May 22, 1992
Nickname
Mikey
Birth City
Nashville, TN
Current City
Nashville, TN
Gender
Male
Pronouns
He/Him
Eye Color
Brown
Married To
Jessica Moore
I write to explore the systems dictating our lives — whether shaped by nature or humanity. Our world's contradictions, values, unknowns, and quiet horrors. If a work leaves you unsettled or questioning what it means to be human, it's doing its job.
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