Michael Zelniker

Roles: Director

Zelniker is a lifelong environmentalist with long time memberships with NRDC, the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club and Greenpeace. Born and raised in Montreal, Michael is an award winning actor and filmmaker, who after more than 30 years of working on film, television and theater stages all over the world and 14 years of training actors and filmmakers at the Los Angeles campuses of the New York Film Academy and AMDA College and Conservatory for the Performing Arts, left his job to work full time as a volunteer trying to help solve the climate crisis.

In 2018, after being trained by former Vice President Al Gore, Michael was elected Co-Chair of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Climate Reality Project, a position he held for 2.5 years. “The Issue with Tissue – a boreal love story” about the boreal forest and the Indigenous Peoples who call it home, marks Zelniker’s first foray into documentary filmmaking.