About

I’m Mike O’Day — a filmmaker and creative producer from New York, currently developing my first feature film and building Suelo, a human-centric storytelling studio. Over the past few years I’ve been living and working across different cities and countries, slowly traveling, filming, and learning from the people and places I encounter along the way.

I’m drawn to stories about becoming — people in motion, lifelong learners, and the quiet, often messy process of growth. I’m deeply aware of life’s chapters and endlessly fascinated by coming-of-age stories… and then the same person coming of age again. I believe youthfulness is less about age and more about mindset.

My work lives somewhere between documentary and cinema. I’m drawn to artists, strangers, and chance encounters — to the way big ideas often surface through small, fleeting moments. I’m interested in contrast and contradiction: in how the trivial and the profound can exist side by side, and how intellectual consistency can live alongside emotional chaos. Subcultures, global desires, and the invisible threads that connect people across place and time continue to pull me in.

At the heart of it, I believe creativity makes the world richer and more humane. I’m a forever optimist — deeply curious about people, and grounded in a belief that most of us are trying, in our own imperfect ways, to make meaning out of being alive. At the same time, I’m pragmatic about the world as it is, and I try to hold both hope and reality in the frame together.

That tension — between what is and what could be — is where my work lives

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