Petr Michal (born 1986) graduated from Charles University in Prague before applying to FAMU. There he directed several short films such as The Good Anarchist Igor (2017) and Mikrotron (2019). Together with Vojtěch Dvořák he co-directed a short documentary about Jan Švankmajer (2018) which was awarded as The Best Documentary at the Night of Film Hopes Student Film Festival in 2019.
Found by the One She Seeks (2022) is his first medium-length film.