Michal Blaško was born in 1989 in Bratislava, Slovakia. He studied directing and screenwriting at the Miroslav Ondříček Film Academy in Písek, Czech Republic, followed by directing studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). There, in his second year, he realized the short film "Strach" ("Fear", SK 2015), which premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in the International Film Students Meeting section. Numerous other festival participations followed; at the Vilnius Film Festival, "Strach" won the Best Short Film Award.  

As the writer and co-director (with Marta Prokopová) of the animated short film "Wild Beasts", Blaško was invited to the Berlinale Talents at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. In the same year, his bachelor short film "Atlantis, 2003" (SK 2017), about a young Ukrainian couple trying to get to Germany in 2003, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Cinéfondation. The following year, at the Cottbus Film Festival, Blaško presented his 20-minute feature film "Pochod" (SK 2017), which deals with prejudice and resentment against the Roma minority.  

Since 2018, Michal Blaško has directed several episodes of Slovak and Czech TV series, as well as the three-part mini-series "Podezrení" ("Suspicion"), which won the Czech Film Critics Award, among others.  

Michal Blaško achieved great success with his feature-length debut "Victim" (SK/CZ/DE 2022), a variation on the theme of his short film "Pochod", about a Ukrainian woman living in the Czech Republic and her son who, through a web of misunderstandings and prejudices, find themselves at the center of an anti-Roma campaign. "Victim" won the Hamburg Producer's Award at Filmfest Hamburg, the Special Jury Prize at the Istanbul Bosphorus Film Festival, and was named Newcomer of the Year at the Czech Film Critics' Award. The German theatrical release was in April 2023.