Michael Tyburski is a filmmaker and commercial director. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, Indiewire, Film Comment, NOWNESS, Short of the Week, and Filmmaker Magazine, which named him amongst the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”
His debut feature film, The Sound of Silence, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in U.S. Dramatic Competition, and was distributed theatrically by IFC Films and Sony Pictures Worldwide. The project was selected for IFP's Emerging Storyteller's Program and the Screenwriting Lab at the Hampton’s International Film Festival. The script is a recipient of both the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Screenplay Award and Sun Valley Film Festival’s High Scribe Award. In 2018, the project was awarded the SFFILM Dolby Fellowship, and Michael was also named a Feature Film Fellow by the Sundance Institute, after attending the Film Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound.
His second feature, Turn Me On, premiered at the 72nd San Sebastian Film Festival in the New Directors section, where it won a Jury Award. Vertical Entertainment is set to release the film in theaters early next year.
He directed and co-wrote the short film, “Palimpsest,” which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Award. His short documentary, “Brooklyn Farmer,” screened at the 2014 San Sebastian Film Festival as part of the Culinary Zinema section, presented in conjunction with the Berlinale. His short, “Actor Seeks Role,” won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston) and was selected by The New Yorker as part of their Screening Room series.
Commercial work includes directing projects for Google, Target, Microsoft, Verizon, L’Oreal, and GE.
Raised in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, Michael now lives in New York City.
Film & TV
United Talent Agency (UTA) / 310.273.6700
Management
Charlie Scully, The Gotham Group / 424.281.3690
General Inquiries
michael@michaeltyburski.com