Michael Moore - a self-described liberal who has criticized globalization, large corporations, gun ownership, the Iraq War, and the American health care system – is the Academy Award-winning director of films exposing the reality behind the American dream. He called President George W Bush 'that frat boy' and ‘a thief-in-chief, a trespasser on federal land, a squatter at the Oval Office’.

Moore is a ground-breaking filmmaker who uses satire and dark humour to undercut the poignancy of his stories. Unlike most liberal dissenters, however, he has found his niche. He enjoys a broad-based audience that goes deep into mainstream America.

Michael Moore was born and raised in Flint, Michigan, birthplace of the General Motors Corporation. It was the decision of GM to close the factory that employed most of his family, along with eighty thousand other people, that propelled Moore onto the screen. ‘I just got mad,’ was how he put it. He decided to track down company chairman, Roger Smith, and confront him. He also decided to make a film of the experience. The result was the light-hearted but powerfully moving Roger and Me. It won a host of international awards and became one of America's all-time successful documentaries. It also made Moore a multi-millionaire.

He went on to make Bowling for Columbine (exploring America's predilection for gun violence), Fahrenheit 9/11 (the US post 9/11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to promote unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq), and the Oscar-nominated Sicko (investigating the American Health Care system). In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, which documents his personal crusade to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections

In 2005, Moore started the annual Traverse City Film Festival in Traverse City, Michigan. In 2008, he closed his Manhattan office and moved it to Traverse City, where he is presently working on his new film.

As well as making films, Michael Moore is an author and liberal political commentator. He wrote, directed and hosted a satirical TV show, The Awful Truth, and TV Nation, a satirical newsmagazine. He is waiting for the day his audiences take on the struggle themselves, saying, ’One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business’. Hear him talking on Capitol Hill in support of Single Payer Universal Health Care.