Michael Chandler is an award-winning filmmaker and Academy-Award nominated editor. In addition to producing and directing Compared to What? and Knee Deep with partner Sheila Canavan, Michael's film Forgotten Fires probed the burning by Ku Klux Klansmen of Black churches in South Carolina. Bill Moyers said about it: "If we wanted a real dialog about race in America, we'd start with this film." Michael also specializes as a consulting editor for documentaries, emphasizing story and structure.

He was a writer and consulting editor on the Oscar-nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, edited the Academy Award-nominated Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey, and wrote and edited the Oscar-nominated and Sundance Grand Jury Prize-Winner Freedom on My Mind, the Emmy Award-winning Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven, and ABC's Can't It Be Anyone Else?, for which he received the Christopher Humanitarian Award.

Michael has produced and directed documentaries for the PBS series Frontline. Blackout, a co-production with The New York Times, was the first media program to expose Enron's financial manipulation of energy markets. Secrets of the SAT dealt with the impact of standardized testing in college admissions and won First Prize in Broadcast Journalism from the Education Writer's Association.

Michael has also edited feature films, including Never Cry Wolf, Mishima, and Amadeus, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.