Marc Miller

Marc Miller has enjoyed winning numerous awards for his work as cinematographer and editor during his extensive career. After attending Columbia College in Chicago during the early 70's he held staff positions in Chicago and New York. Returning from New York in 1975, Marc had free-lanced in Chicago until 2004. Now, after 8 years living and working in Los Angeles, Marc is back in the greater Chicago area eager to collaborate with a diverse range of clients. Marc's philosophical approach to filmmaking is captured in this statement by Russian filmmaker VI Pudovkin: "To show something as everyone sees it is to have accomplished nothing." He strives to capture images and construct stories that take the viewer where he cannot go. Herein lies the power of the art of the cinema. Throughout the years his work has been varied in project scope and subject matter. Clients have included major corporations and entertainment companies such as: Our House Productions (CBS Big Brother), Spike TV, The Second City, Fox Reality, Lifetime, History Channel, Discovery, The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Sea Launch, Glock, Victory Motorcycles, Tru-Spec Apparel, Inside Edition, Sony/Columbia Pictures, American Playhouse, Warner Brothers, Motorola, Kraft, Baxter, Abbott, Amgen, Eli Lily, Quaker Oats, Allstate, Miller Brewing, Harley-Davidson, Firestone-Bridgestone, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, AT&T, SC Johnson, DeVry University, Safety Kleen, Kimberly-Clark, Joseph T. Ryerson, John Deere, Sears, and many more. Though based in the United States, Marc's work has taken him to most every state in the union as well as overseas to Antigua, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Fiji, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Kuwait, Malaysia, Montserrat, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tarawa, Togo, Tobago, Venezuela and The United Kingdom. Some recent projects include: music video for The Shock Tarts entitled "Hollywood's Dead", theatrical documentary entitled "Brothers At War", TV commercials, "Women Rock: The Melissa Etheridge Story" segment second unit cameraman, and 4 seasons of CBS's Big Brother, feature film "African Gothic", an upcoming documentary "The Lost Graves of Tarawa" and more. Heading further into the millennium Marc is focusing on projects that will afford more story telling opportunities through motion picture medium. He is working as Cinematographer/Camera Operator/Editor multiple modern formats. Member of Local 600 International Cinematographers Guild, SOC and Digital Cinema Society.