Michele Noble
Directing
Biography
Michele Noble is an Emmy® nominated writer, director and producer who combines the eye of a documentarian with the heart of a social justice activist and the lyricism of a storyteller. In 2021, Michele received an Emmy® Award nomination for her powerful documentary, Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock (2020) which was selected at over 40 film festivals worldwide garnering 21 Jury awards. During the filming at Standing Rock, Michele joined on the frontlines as an ally in solidarity with the Native Nations peaceful resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Her work often centers around social justice as she tells stories of people who are typically on the edges of the frame aiming to bring those stories to the center. Michele writes for film and TV and likes to write political dramas, thrillers, dark comedy and modern-day westerns. Most recently, she has written three original TV pilots: Happiness 2.0, a half hour dark comedy about an estranged father and son having to reunite to solve the modern problems of their failing family circus. Her dark comedy, Fifty which she co-wrote with playwright, Lisa Ramirez, chronicles the midlife crisis of a New York Latina who blows up her suburban life to realize the artistic dreams she had at twenty. Fifty was selected as one of 12 projects at the 2023 Writer’s Lab sponsored by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. Michele’s hour drama pilot, JUIF, is envisioned as a limited series, and is told in the style of a thriller depicting the true story of a Parisian hat designer who saves lives while creating the French resistance during World War II. JUIF is a 2024 TV pilot finalist at the acclaimed Sedona Film Festival, Vail Film Festival, Omaha Film Festival, Burbank International Film Festival, Palm Springs Diversity Film Festival and the Academy qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival. In June of 2024, her narrative film she directed, The Yellow Sponge is the Dish Sponge (2024), a queer story of love and house cleaning, began its festival run and has already garnered ten grand jury awards for best narrative short, best LGBTQ film, best director, best actor, and an audience award for best queer film at the first twenty-two festivals it has screened. While in film school at the University of Southern California, she directed Runaway Dreams, a narrative feature film which won honors at the Deauville Film Festival was distributed by Sony Pictures. She also directed, wrote and produced the award-winning feature documentary, Journey 4 Artists (2014), which contemplates music's power to heal histories of genocide, featuring the life and music of Theodore Bikel, Merima Ključo, Shura Lipovsky and Tamara Brooks. In 2015, she wrote, directed and produced, the revolution, an experimental narrative film featuring actors: Kathryn Erbe, Merritt Wever, Jennifer Carpenter, Adam Rothenberg, and Gale Harold as 1960s anti-war activists. Michele Noble serves on the Advisory Boards of the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Social Justice Film Institute of Seattle, Washington. She is a longtime member of London’s The Groucho Club, a graduate of the USC film school, and a member of the Directors Guild and Writers Guild of America and The Television Academy.
Known For
Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance at education and satisfying his disappointed parents.
Hamburger: The Motion Picture
When skiers in Japan come across the frozen body of centuries-old samurai warrior Yoshimita, scientists secretly whisk the corpse to a high-tech laboratory in California, where they bring him back to life. But when Yoshimita escapes onto the mean streets of 1980s Los Angeles, his ancient and strict code of honor gets him both into and out of trouble. J. Larry Carroll directs this low-budget action fantasy.
Ghost Warrior
Nominated for an Emmy® Award in 2021 for best non fiction special. Winner of 35 grand jury awards. Filmed in 2016 at Standing Rock, North Dakota, this powerful documentary follows the Indigenous leaders as they unite the Native Nations for the first time in 150 years in order to rise up in spiritual solidarity against the unlawful Dakota Access Pipeline which threatens their treaty lands, sacred burial sights and clean water. These young Native Leaders honor their destiny by implementing a peaceful movement of resistance which awakens the world.
Reclamation: The Rise at Standing Rock
A young girl runs away and is forced to become a prostitute.
Runaway Dreams
Journey 4 Artists is a unique feature length documentary which demonstrates how the power of music has the ability to elevate both the performer and audience beyond divergent religious, political, and ideological boundaries. In this documentary, world music serves as a catalyst for four artists: Theodore Bikel, Tamara Brooks, Merima Ključo and Shura Lipovsky, who come from Jewish, Muslim, Bosnian, Dutch, French, Greek, Russian and Austrian cultures to share their extraordinary passion and purpose which is to make music that transcends the discordance of the ordinary world. Journey 4 Artists is an authentic, poignant and sometimes difficult exploration of the human spirit through an artful blend of music, personal narrative and visual history, all of which demonstrates how far we all have come while encouraging us to continue our movement forward towards acceptance and peace. .
Journey 4 Artists
What do happy married people do after 15 years together? Fight about cleaning. At least Erik and his husband Jason do. Soon, however, an argument as old as time becomes more serious than a dirty pan.