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.
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