London Canadian Film Festival Audience Award2005 Saint Ralph Paris Film Festival Grand Prix2005 Saint Ralph Michael McGowan (born April 14, 1966) is a Canadian filmmaker.

He is best known for writing and directing the feature films Saint Ralph, One Week, Score: A Hockey Musical, and Still Mine.

McGowan was born in Toronto, Ontario, but graduated from the University of North Carolina with a BA in English.

Returning to Toronto he became a journalist, writing for publications such as Quill & Quire,[1] Toronto Life and The Globe and Mail.

He then joined the TV industry, helping create the stop-motion children's TV show Henry's World, and then wrote and directed Saint Ralph in 2004, for which he won the Outstanding Achievement in Direction award from the Directors Guild of Canada and the Writers Guild of Canada award for Best Feature Film.