Michelle Prevost began her film career in the documentary genre, Directing and Producing the short “Isn’t It Obvious?” (2004) followed by the feature length “Trained in the Ways of Men”, premiering in 2007 at the Cinequest Film Festival. “Trained in the Ways of Men” is distributed by Cinequest. Both have been shown at numerous film festivals internationally, and Ms. Prevost still receives requests to show her films at LGBT events worldwide. Early in her career as a computer science researcher, Ms Prevost worked for NASA, and Silicon Graphics. She then moved to Electronic Arts where she designed new interfaces and AI heuristics for computer games. She followed that work with large scale data visualization at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Continuing to advance her technical skills for creative applications, Ms. Prevost joined Industrial Light and Magic as a software engineer. Her experience there sparked her interest in special effects and she has since written, directed, and created effects for several short films. Ms. Prevost strives to bring attention to issues that are important to her, carefully interweaving the underlying social themes into her storytelling.

Michelle Prevost’s years of experience as a software engineer for large entertainment and motion picture effects companies have sparked her on-going interest in film. Ms. Prevost began her own career in film in 2004 with “Isn’t It Obvious?”, Best Documentary Short 2004 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. She followed that by Directing and Producing the feature length documentary “Trained in the Ways of Men”, that premiered at the 2007 Cinequest Film Festival, currently in distribution by Cinequest. From there she moved to writing and directing several award-winning shorts via the filmmaking incubator, Scary Cow in San Francisco. Ms Prevost’s work has always brought social issues to the forefront, beginning with transgender awareness, and now delving into issues of mental illness and the socio-economic divisiveness with the screenplay “The Bronx Yacht Club”, currently in development at Reel Freedom Films.