michelle salcedo

WRITER/DIRECTOR

A Sundance Directing fellow in 2024 and 2025, Michelle Salcedo is an award-winning filmmaker with over 20 year's experience in the entertainment industry. Michelle directed the multimillion-dollar action feature Switch & Bait, shot on location in Serbia. The film boasts a script from Inside Man writer Russel Gewirtz and stars Otmara Marrero (Start-Up) and Katie Clarkson Hill (Hanna). Her directorial debut, Piel Canela shot on location in Cuba, won eight jury prizes including “Best Produced” at the Academy-qualifying Holly Shorts Film festival and “Best Short of the Year” at New Filmmakers LA. Named “Best New Filmmaker of the Year” in 2020, she most recently directed, Bye Bye Barbarito, as part of NALIP’s Women of Color incubator supported by Netflix and Panavision. Born in Miami, of Cuban and Ecuadorian descent, she graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in film studies.