He most recently produced and photographed 2nd unit and main title footage for Disney Channel's "Tiger Cruise" and Sony's Jackie Chan movie "The Medallion". Additionally he has been producing and directing the independent feature "90404 Changing".

He also co-produced, photographed, and co-edited "Cries Of Silence", an award-winning independent feature (Best Picture - 1998 Giffoni Int'l Festival) - which stars Kathleen York, Karen Black and Ed Nelson.

The award-winning feature-length documentary "Chihuly River of Glass" (produced, directed, photographed and edited) has been recently airing on the Sundance Channel

He has also created a series of photographic montage artworks called Photofields. These works have been assembled from Banard’s personal archive of images that has been collected over the past thirty years from around the world. Michael’s Photofields have been exhibited extensively over the last few years and can be currently found online at www.photofields.com.

His film works have included a series of early experimental "FieldFilms" in the 1960's and early 70's,(shown at Millennium in New York and many other venues around the U.S.), a series of educational films for an international non-profit organization during the 70's, and since coming to Los Angeles in 1978, a wide variety of films ranging from the Greenpeace film "Voyage of the Peacock", to the features "Nights In White Satin" (Director), "Against The Wind" (Writer), "The Invisible Kid" (Director of Photography), "Cries of Silence" (Co-Producer/Director of Photography) "The Outermost Place" (Writer), "The Transfiguration of Fast Eddie Rose" (Writer), as well as numerous music videos, commercials and documentaries.