About Me

Michael Downey is a director and DOP whose client list includes Channel 4, the BBC, The New York Times, VICE, PBS and other media outlets.Over the past 10 years, Downey has covered major events in the MENA region such as the 2020 Beirut blast, the civil wars in Libya and Syria, the Syrian refugee crisis, the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, as... Read More

Michael Downey is a director and DOP whose client list includes Channel 4, the BBC, The New York Times, VICE, PBS and other media outlets.

Over the past 10 years, Downey has covered major events in the MENA region such as the 2020 Beirut blast, the civil wars in Libya and Syria, the Syrian refugee crisis, the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, as well as the conflict in Iraq; and most recently the war in Ukraine for NYT and now for a feature documentary.

Downey has also worked on several feature documentaries and series. In 2022, he was approached by Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Rita Baghdadi to assist as an additional cinematographer on "Sirens", a coming-of-age documentary that has since been selected by Sundance. In 2018, he worked as DOP with award-winning Chef Nigel Slater OBE on the "Nigel Slater's Middle East" TV miniseries. In 2016, he worked alongside Academy Award-winning Director Eva Orner on her film "Chasing Asylum", which won an AACTA Award for Best Feature Length Documentary.

In 2022, he received the Picture of the Year International’s Documentary Award of Excellence for his short documentary on the dying bird language in northern Turkey. Michael is currently working on a blue-chip series focusing on the Arctic and
scheduled to air in 2023. Read Less