Hail Maria!

Raised with mixed heritage by his mother and sister in Bournemouth on the South Coast of England, Mikel has forever been instilled with a lust for culture and creativity.

As a teenager, Mikel won funding to set up a youth theatre company in his area winning him an entrepreneurial award from the local council. Learning his mother's native tongue, Mikel has found work in the NGO sector in Latin America, spending a cumulative two years on the road in the continent working with grassroots developing communities.

In his graduating year at the Northern Film School in Leeds, three of Mikel's short films were nominated for national awards by the NFTS, Frightfest and BFI.

Utilising his communication skills, Mikel has been invited to be an educator for institutions such as the BFI, National Youth Theatre, Into Film and was recently welcomed by the Kaunas Romuva Cinema Centre in Lithuania to lead their filmmaking summer camp.

Mikel has always had a rapacious desire for learning and since the age of sixteen his primary focus has been developing as a filmmaker, whether by absorbing the trail as a backpacker and tour guide, treading the boards as an actor for the NYT or writing call sheets and leading the set as First Assistant to directors such as Tom Paton, Simeon Halligan or Steve McCarten. Mikel is known for his tenacity and fearlessness through the filmmaking process, throwing himself into new roles and having the resources to overcome any situation thrown at him.

Most recently has seen Mikel begin his first solo producing work with his short film Mausoleum, starring Julia Deakin and written and directed by Jamie Milligan, selected by Women Over 50 Film Festival, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Short Sound Film Festival, London Short Film Festival and InShort Film Festival so far. His commercial and music video work has seen him producing for clients including Nike, Crypt TV, Lyves, Elles, Adobe and more.