Michael Borofsky also credited as Michael B Borofsky, is a documentary and music film director and producer based in New York. Born Michael Benedict Borofsky in Tulsa, he started his career at CBS in New York in 1984. He has been nominated for and has won several important awards for his work. He is often credited with having virtually invented the short form video profile on recording artists, which became a standard marketing tool later known as the EPK. However, Borofsky is best known for several long form music projects both live multi camera concerts and documentary work including The Making of Canto: Los Super Seven, Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Montreux, Elvis Costello: Live in Memphis, The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan

Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan

Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan is a tribute album released on the Sony/Columbia label in 2003, which features traditional and contemporary gospel singers performing songs written by Bob Dylan during his "born again" period...

, Fishbone: The Reality of My Surroundings

The Reality of My Surroundings - Past to Present

The Reality of My Surroundings - Past to Present is a career retrospective of the alternative rock band Fishbone. The video includes live shots and commentary from the band, as well as all of the band's promotional videos from MTV...

, and No Direction Home

No Direction Home

No Direction Home is a documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th century American popular music and culture. The film does not cover Dylan's entire career; it concentrates on the period between Dylan's arrival in New York in January 1961 and his...

(producer) He also directed several music videos seen worldwide, most notably Not Dark Yet

Not Dark Yet

"Not Dark Yet" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 1997 album Time Out of Mind and also as the first single on March 2, 1998. It appears on the album The Passion of the Christ: Songs Inspired By, and also features on the Wonder Boys soundtrack. "Not Dark Yet" is also played in the ending part...

by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, Twas the Night Before Christmas by Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

 and Midnight Train by Darden Smith. He has worked recently with the reunited band the Pixies, directing two separate projects with them.

Michael Borofsky was nominated for a Grammy for Best Long Form Music Video as Producer on The Blues: A Musical Journey, a Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...

 project. He has received awards for his work with Bob Dylan, Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...

, Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American alternative rock band formed in 1986. The band consists of singer/guitarist Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss. The band enjoyed chart success in the 1990s with the singles "Walk on the Ocean," "All I Want,"...

, Shabba Ranks

Shabba Ranks

Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall musician.He was one of the most popular dancehall artists of his generation. He was also one of the first Jamaican deejays to gain worldwide acceptance, and recognition for his 'slack' lyrical expressions and content, when "ridin' di riddim"...

, and Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...

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