Michael Moore is an accomplished filmmaker, TV personality, and author. A former School Board member at the age of 18, he was also one of the youngest people in the country ever to be elected to public office. Moore is best known for his award winning landmark documentary “Roger & Me,” the story of his relentless quest to confront General Motors Chairman Roger Smith about the devastating effects that GM’s downsizing had on the town of Flint, Michigan. The previously highest-grossing documentary of all time, “Roger & Me” appeared on more than 100 critics’ Ten Best Films of the Year lists and won numerous awards for Best Documentary from film festivals across the country.

Moore’s follow up film, “The Big One” also received rave reviews and was the largest grossing documentary of 1998. Moore’s latest documentary feature, 2002′s “Bowling for Columbine” now holds the title has the highest-grossing documentary of all time and won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

On television, Moore served as producer, director, writer, and host for the Emmy-Award winning “TV Nation” and the Emmy-nominated THE AWFUL TRUTH. Both shows blend topical news stories from around the world with Moore’s unique brand of entertainment. In 1995, Moore won the Most Promising Producer Award from the Producers’ Guild of America and an Emmy for the Most Outstanding Informational Series.

Moore is also the best-selling author of “Downsize This! Random Threats From an Unarmed American,” “Adventures in a TV Nation,” “Stupid White Men,” and most recently, “Dude, Where is my Country?”

“I don’t see myself as either [an activist or entertainer]. My job is I’m a filmmaker, and I do that either through making documentary films or making short films and calling them TV Nation or The Awful Truth, and putting them on TV or on video. That’s my job. And I’m a citizen of this country. If I’m an American citizen, that should automatically imply that I’m an activist. To say that I’m an activist would be redundant, because you cannot be a citizen in a democracy and not be an activist. If the people don’t participate, if they all just check out, I don’t know what that’s called, but it’s not a democracy. So I don’t like the term ‘activist.’ I just think we’re all activists if we’re citizens.”