Michael Bratkowski has lived in the LA area since 1984, and thanks God every day for the sun we get, having grown up in Vancouver, Canada. He's worked for a lot of great people over the last two decades: John Toll, ASC; Jordan Cronenweth, ASC; James Chressanthis, ASC; Ed Lachman, ASC and Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC. While working, he has had the great fortune to shoot in many places, seeing 46 US states, the Yukon, in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Projects have had him in Washington D.C., lighting the interview of FBI Director Robert Mueller, operating a handheld camera in the pits at the California Speedway (with tires and car parts whizzing through the air), shooting from helicopter to helicopter in the mountains above LA, walking backwards with an HDCam down a pier in St. Maarten, riding on the trunk of a Mercedes 530SL down the Las Vegas strip, and shooting 2nd Unit with a Panaflex for Sony on Twin Falls Idaho.
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