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Michael Normand (born in Glasgow, Scotland) is a screenwriter, director, and founder of Film Nouveau. On moving to London in the mid-1980s, Normand worked for Eurospan publishers in Covent Garden, before going freelance and writing education dramas for Oxford University Press. By the late 1980s he was on the London stand up circuit (under the name Finlay Michaels), and was writing comedy for TV and radio. In 1993 he co-wrote the landmark British comedy Leon the Pig Farmer (with Gary Sinyor). He then wrote and directed the American comedy Dirty Laundry. After a longer-than-planned bout of script-doctoring, Michael wrote and directed Joe Smeal’s Wheels, a docudrama shot on the streets of Glasgow. He has most recently written, produced and directed the 2012 Olympics-inspired film Blisters for Blighty.
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