Unlike so many stories of filmmakers beginning their careers at an early age with borrowed Super-8mm cameras, Michael Supey came into filmmaking as a 20-year-old transplant to New York City from Northeastern Pennsylvania. Acceptance to the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan meant a new lease on creativity, learning the craft of filmmaking in the foreground of a booming metropolis.

As an undergraduate he completed six short films, shot for very little money while utilizing a variety of formats.  High points of that period were short films, Mercy and Terminus, which tied for first place at the 2006 Electric City Film festival.   Additional accolades for Mercy include the prestigious National Board of Review Grant given in 2005 for excellence in Student Film in the five boroughs of New York City. 

Michael is credited as Producer, Director, Co-writer, and Editor of his first feature film, Abscond Valley, completed in May of 2006. 

After relocating to his native Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania for a time, Michael came back to New York City refreshed and refocused to make his own opportunities in the autumn of 2010.

He believes the film world works in cycles and looking back at the socially conscious films of the 1970’s in the waning years of the Vietnam War allows us to look forward to the next rush of important films that are meant for something more than selling an admission ticket. Film festivals, distribution markets, and the independent theatre circuit provide a perfect home for well-crafted, pertinent movies the Hollywood system fails to fund.

Using his independent nature as personal motivation lead Michael to where he is today, ultimately focused on the goal of seeing projects come to life that will inspire, and provoke an exchange of ideas with his homegrown work ethic and resolute tenacity to complete any objective.