BIOGRAPHY

Michele Josue is an Emmy award-winning Filipino-American director. She is the Executive Producer and Director of “Happy Jail,” a Netflix Original Documentary Series about the Filipino jail that is home to the world-famous “Dancing Inmates” known for their viral Michael Jackson dance video.

Michele’s critically acclaimed feature-film debut "Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine" is the winner of 10 Best Documentary and Audience Choice Awards from festivals worldwide and boasts a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In 2016, the film won the Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Special.”

Michele has traveled around the globe with "Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine" as a guest speaker for various schools and organizations including Facing History and Ourselves, the Environmental Protection Agency, Ogilvy & Mather, and The Washington National Cathedral. In her travels with the film, she has also represented the United States government overseas as a U.S. State Department Speaker and presented the film at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.

Michele was selected for the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam’s World Documentary Exchange filmmaker program in 2013 and has received The Reel Affirmations’ Keith Clark & Barry Becker Filmmaker Award. She has also made several guest appearances on radio, podcasts, and TV shows including "The Insider" and "The View,” and her essays have been featured in Indiewire, The New York Times Upfront, and The Huffington Post.