MICHAEL GARBER

Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker

Michael Garber is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. As an adolescent, he attended Catholic elementary school Monday to Friday, Jewish Sunday School and Hebrew School. After completing a BFA focused on Animation, in 2007 Michael moved to Taiwan to study Mandarin Chinese. Between 2009 and 2018 Michael worked in a variety of media jobs in Taipei, most recently at a local documentary production company making Discovery Channel documentaries about Taiwan. In 2018 Michael decided to become an independent filmmaker, and hopes to help Taiwanese society by highlighting the work of activists, and by increasing the visibility of disenfranchised groups. His current projects include a documentary about the movement for and referendum on marriage equality in Taiwan, and a documentary examining the social impact of Taiwan’s highly unusual criminal adultery law.