Mike O’Day

 Director’s Reel (2025)

New York–born filmmaker and creative producer drawn to stories about people in motion. My work lives somewhere between documentary and cinema, shaped by travel, curiosity, and human connection.

Now(updated July 29, 2026)

I’m building Suelo, a film studio focused on human stories rooted in people, places, and culture.

This year has been about turning an idea into a practice. Less thinking about what the studio could become, and more making films, building relationships, and establishing a way of working that feels true to the kind of stories I want to tell.

I’m currently finishing Still, We Move, a short film shot across southern Spain and Morocco. It follows an unseen traveler and explores how the people we meet along the way quietly shape our experience of a place.

Alongside that, I’m developing a narrative feature film set in Mexico City while continuing to write a feature film set in New York City (Draft 2 complete).

It still feels like the early days, with some momentum. The goal right now is simple: keep making better films, release them consistently, and lay the foundation for a studio that I hope still exists decades from now.

I’m back in New York for August after spending most of the year in Mexico City.