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Michael P. Noens | Director/Writer

Michael Noens was born in Park Ridge, Illinois in 1984 to Richard and Patricia Noens. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Palatine (a northwest suburb of Chicago) where Michael would grow up. As a young child of 10, Michael was tall enough to reach the shelf that stored the family camcorder. He quickly began to create short movies that he would edit between two VCRs. He continued his passion for the arts at William Fremd High School where he was active in the school’s theatre department and speech team. It was during his senior year that he directed his first feature film, while producing another for a close friend. His production company, CNGM Pictures NFP was founded in the same year. Michael went on to produce and direct seven student feature films while in college.

In 2009, Michael emerged from Chicago’s Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy in the institution’s first graduating class. While attending Tribeca Flashpoint, Michael received a first place prize for his work in a McDonald’s Viral Media Competition, as well as Best College Film at the 2008 Flint Film Festival for his feature “Sleep to Dream.” Since then, Michael has had the extraordinary opportunity to direct four independent feature films in and around the Chicagoland area. In 2010, he released two romantic comedies on the festival circuit entitled “Coasting” and “Darren & Abbey”. In 2012, he wrote and directed the relationship drama “Two Days in February”. Currently, Michael is in post-production on the feature “Pictures of Us”, as well as a new original web series called “Brightside”. As a director, Michael’s projects tend to explore the romantic comedy genre in a rather unconventional style, taking common story structures and placing them in an unusual or unlikely setting.