Michael Werner is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer and editor whose work has been featured in / by: The PBS NewsHour, HBO Films, Showtime, The New York Times Company, PBS QUEST, CBS This Morning, MSNBC, The Associated Press, PBS SciTech Now, Nat Geo Wild, PBS EarthFix, Voice of America TV, The World Channel, Gawker Media, The U.S. Olympic Committee, Yale University Press, Media Storm, and the Cannes International Film Festival.

Michael won the 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award in the television category for his story Wolves: The Ecology of Fear, which explores wolves impacts on the larger ecosystem. He has won Emmy awards for producing, photography and editing. In addition, he is a Logan Science Journalism Fellow, a Woods Hole Science Journalism Fellow and a Corporation for Public Broadcasting International Fellow.