January • 2021
Michiel is a true professional. He was communicative throughout the entire process, offering creative ideas for the shoot, and delivering footage that demonstrates his adept eye as a filmmaker.
Michiel T.
Los Angeles, CA, USA
17 reviews$650 - $1500 / Day
About
Michiel Thomas is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, video journalist, camera operator, editor and producer based in Los Angeles, CA. His feature & short doc titles include Game Face (Netflix, 2016, Peacock 2023), Relighting Candles: The Tim Sulivan Story (Hulu, 2024), That's Wild (PBS, AMC Networks, 2021) and Gemmel & Tim (Tubi, 2023). As a freelancer, Michiel partnered with clients such as HBO, BBC News, TBS and VOX. Via Glimmer, Michiel collaborated multiple times with 60 Second Docs, Indigenous Media, USA Today, Gannett, and more.
Top Services
- Documentary DP
- 17 reviews
- Production Company
- Video Editor - Documentary
Clients
Top Reviews
November • 2020
Michiel was great to work with - super communicative, hard-working and got exactly what we needed! I would definitely work with him again and highly recommend him.
March • 2021
Michiel is a true professional and always a pleasure to work with.
Top Projects
Produced for Shivelight LLC
Gemmel and Tim
Synopsis: Friends reminisce on the lives and deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, two black gay men who died at the hands of West Hollywood politico Ed Buck. www.gemmelandtim.com
- Documentary DP
- Drone Operator
- Production Company
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Non-Fiction Film Director
Produced for Shivelight LLC
That's Wild
That’s Wild highlights three teenage boys from Atlanta, attempting to climb four snowcapped peaks in the heart of the Colorado wilderness, all while overcoming their own personal mountains.
- Documentary DP
- Production Company
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Non-Fiction Film Director
Produced for Shivelight LLC
Game Face
Game Face chronicles the coming-out journeys of Fallon Fox, the first ever transgender professional MMA fighter, and Terrence Clemens, a gay college basketball player in Oklahoma.
- Documentary DP
- Production Company
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Non-Fiction Film Director
Produced for Shivelight LLC
The American Army Dream
'The American Army Dream' is a short documentary by Michiel Thomas (Game Face) on Audrey Franssen from Belgium. In the summer of 2016 Audrey moved to Pennsylvania to pursue her unusual American Dream at Valley Forge Military Academy and College.
- Documentary DP
- Production Company
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Non-Fiction Film Director
5.0 Produced for Gannett
DP Needed in for 3 minute feature in Poway
Patrick Brady is a handyman who moonlights as a pro bono snake catcher for his neighborhood. He's caught and released hundreds in Poway, California.
- Documentary DP
5.0 Produced for 60 Second Docs
60 Second Docs - Rainbow Mariachi
Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles is the world’s first LGBTQ mariachi group. Rejecting the attitude of machismo often associated with mariachi, the group including Natalia Melendez -- the first transgender woman in mariachi -- explores new facets of the tradition by creating a safe space for authentic expression.
- Documentary DP
Equipment
Video
- 4K video camera
- Drone
- Multiple cameras
- DSLR or equivalent
- GoPro or equivalent
- 2K video camera
- Full HD video camera
Video
Audio
- Wireless lavalier mic
- Shotgun mic
- External recorder
Audio
Miscellaneous
- Lighting kit
Miscellaneous
All Services
Production Support
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Documentary DP
- Corporate Videographer
- Drone Operator
- Non-Fiction Film Director
Production Support
Post Production
- Video Editor - Documentary
Post Production
Miscellaneous
- Production Company
Miscellaneous