Michael
Lockridge

Selected work

About

Michael Lockridge is a Los Angeles/Nashville-based Director of Photography working across premium documentary, commercial, unscripted, and narrative projects. He has been a member of the International Cinematographers Guild since 2014.

His work includes Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries, NatGeo/Disney+'s Emmy-winning Science Fair: The Series, A24/Netflix's Open Wide, Disney+'s Own the Room, and National Geographic's Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller. "Shark Hunters," the episode of Trafficked he shot, won a News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Climate, Environment or Weather Coverage.

Michael is currently working on a documentary about the Mayo Clinic, and recently shot on an upcoming limited documentary series for Netflix centered on the world of the Sinaloa cartel.

His work is rooted in character-driven nonfiction, premium interviews, vérité, travel-based production, institutional access, and commercial storytelling. Conversational in Spanish, Michael is comfortable working in Spanish-language and bilingual production environments. His documentary work has placed him in a wide range of real-world settings: following kids through the intensity of competitive science fairs, filming family and cultural stories across Vietnam, covering behind-the-scenes access inside college football programs, shooting inside surgical and medical environments, and conducting cartel-related interviews on location in Sinaloa.

His narrative feature work includes The Ghost Who Walks, currently on Netflix; Buddymoon, starring David Giuntoli and Flula Borg, winner of the Audience Award at Slamdance; Autumn Wanderer, winner of Best Cinematography at the Edinburgh Film Festival; and New Year, starring Timothy Murphy.

His commercial clients include Phillips 66, Toyota, GM, American Express, Google, Wells Fargo, Yahoo, ESPN, and Staples, among others.

Michael received the 2017 ICG Emerging Cinematographer Award for his work on the short film (le) Rebound, which premiered at Aspen Shortfest and screened at Achtung Berlin and Palm Springs International Shortfest.

Though much of his work takes him on the road, Michael is available as a local in both Los Angeles and Nashville.