Michael Chambliss

Technologist & Business Representative, International Cinematographers Guild / IATSE Local 600

**Michael Chambliss** is a technologist and business representative for the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG), IATSE Local 600, focused on the development and implementation of new production technologies impacting directors of photography and their camera crews. He has been working closely with FAA-exempt UAS motion picture and television production operators, regulatory agencies, insurers, the motion picture and television Industry Wide Labor/Management Safety Committee, and entertainment industry guilds, among others, to implement this technology as new visual storytelling technique. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers Technology Committee, the Virtual Cinema Committee, as well as being the ICG’s representative on USC’s Entertainment Technology Center projects. Prior to the ICG, Michael was a principal of Chambliss-Wolff Films, a TV commercial production company. He has also been a director of photography and camera operator on motion pictures and television series as well as being a Peabody Award winning documentary director/DP. His credits include work on Traffic, Rat Race, Perfect Storm, The Italian Job, Ocean’s 11, Scrubs, and Pushing Daisies. His photography and paintings can be found in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and Museo Victorio Macho (Spain) and were selected for an Eames Design Group exhibition.