Michael Engel is a Brazilian born filmmaker living in the United States for the past 17 years. He obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration at Northeastern University in 1992 and a Certificate in Film, Television and Video at UCLA Extensions in 1994.

He worked for a year as an assistant director in Brazilian television. Then Oswaldo Montenegro, a Brazilian musician, hired him to create a multimedia concert that eventually toured Brazil for two years.

In 1996 he moved to New York City where he opened Engel Productions Inc. Among his list of clients are The United Nations, Merryl Lynch Video Network, Crate Amplifiers, and the Brazilian States of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Bahia.

In 1999 he was Unit Production Manager on a feature film entitled “Murder at Café Noir”. That year he also produced a four part educational series teaching metaphysics for the International Academy of Conscientiology.

His curiosity about anthropology eventually took him to the Xingu National Park, in the Lower Amazon Basin, where he lived with the native Brazilians. Returning to civilization and aided by Brazils’ top anthropologist João Americo Peret, he produced and directed XINGU - A PERSONAL JOURNEY. After screening at The New York Independent Film Festival, The Long Island Film Festival and the Tortured Artist Film Festival it premiered on PBS November 21st 2002 and gathered a 2.1 Nielsen rating.

Michael Engel is now actively involved in developing his feature film “Entering Out”, a metaphysical thriller.