Mr. Campus has produced several successful television films, such as HIROSHIMA, nominated for an Emmy Award as best movie or mini-series and hailed by Variety “as the best television ever gets”;  THE MAN WHO BROKE 1,000 CHAINS, nominated for a then record 8 Cable ACE Awards and starring Val Kilmer, Charles Durning, Sonia Braga and Kyra Sedgwick;  CODE NAMED WOLVERINE, based on the work of famed novelist Frederick Forsyth and THE AGES OF MAN, the Emmy Award winning dramatic special starring Sir John Gielgud.

Mr. Campus began as a producer-writer on PM EAST/PM WEST, a ground breaking news series starring Mike Wallace of CBS and 60 Minutes fame.   He then joined ABC Television’s acclaimed Special Projects Division, where he traveled around the world several times working on 25 documentaries as a Producer/Writer/Director.  These programs included the Emmy Award winning THE SAGA OF WESTERN MAN.  MEET COMRADE STUDENT and INDIA THE TROUBLED GIANT.  He then was asked to join the famed David Susskind led Talent Associates, where his producing responsibilities included many of the leading special programs of the time, including the aforementioned AGES OF MAN.  CBS then appointed him to the position of Director of Special Programs, where he was responsible for the supervision of over 150 television specials, many of which became Emmy Award winners, including the famous VLADIMIR HOROWITZ AT CARNEGIE HALL, Hal Holbrook’s landmark performance of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, S HUROK PRESENTS, and Peter Hall’s famous production of A MID SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. 


The Mack has achieved an extraordinary level of fame throughout the African-American movie going community and the film industry and been the subject of many stories on radio and television, and in newspapers and magazines.   The Education of Sonny Carson was hailed by critics all over America, including The New York Times which called it “A howling brute of a film.”  Mr. Campus won The Humanitas Prize for Hiroshima.  The highly coveted award honors films “that affirm the dignity of the human person, the meaning of life and enlighten the use of human freedom.”  The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains has been seen over 40 times on HBO and has played successfully all over the world.  The Passover Plot was nominated for an Academy Award.  Mr. Campus was nominated for an NAACP Image Award as Best Director for Sonny Carson.


Michael Campus is President of Journey Entertainment and Birch Grove Films.  He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and only one of 400 members of the Directors branch of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.  He is also a member of the Writers Guild of America.

Michael Campus’s directing, producing, writing and television executive experience spans 40 years and includes many Emmy Awards and Emmy Award nominations, an Academy Award nomination and nationwide critical praise.  He has directed six motion pictures, the most recent being THE CHRISTMAS COTTAGE for Lionsgate, starring the legendary eight time Academy Award nominee Peter O’Toole, Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden and Jared Padalecki (Supernatural).  His theatrical feature films include THE MACK, named by Entertainment Weekly as Number 20 of the top 50 classic films of all time and starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor;  THE EDUCATION OF SONNY CARSON,  critically acclaimed and hailed as the classic forerunner of BOYZ IN THE HOOD and starring Rony Clanton, Paul Benjamin and Mary Alice;  THE PASSOVER PLOT, based on the controversial best seller and starring, Sir Harry Andrews, Sir Hugh Griffith, Donald Pleasance and Zalman King; The equally controversial Z.P.G., starring Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin; and SURVIVAL, starring Barry Sullivan, Sheree North and Ann Francis.

Michael Campus