Michael Sarnoski is an American film director and screenwriter who studied art and film at Yale University. He made his feature directorial debut with Pig (2021) from a story he co-wrote with producer Vanessa Block. The two filmmakers previously worked together on Block’s Netflix-acquired documentary The Testimony (2015) which captures the largest rape trial in the history of the Congo and was shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Awards in the best documentary short category. Sarnoski wrote and directed his second feature film A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) from a story he co-wrote with John Krasinski.