Los Angeles, California DAVID 402 - 250 - 6950 [email protected] SMOLER smolerdavid.com
I learned my craft from the very best. Working with documentary greats like Tom Hurwitz, Wolfgang Held, and Nick Higgins, I learned the subtleties of vérité filmmaking by being on location in the middle of the action. From producing commercial spots on the soundstages of New York City to shoots in the depths of the Somali dessert, I have the skill set to both adapt and strive in the most unique environments.
Technical Skills Owner Operator:
Capture One C300mkII package created as Adobe Creative Suite, including Lightroom, documentary style single operator Premiere Pro, Audition, After Effects package including wireless audio and Shotput Pro lighting kit. ChronoSync Silverstack DIT Package: for still and video. Able to Camera Specific utilities run tether/ download KIT in the field. EDUCATION Contact directly for complete inventory University of Vermont, 2008 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
FILM DISTRIBUTOR FILM/ EPISODE POSITION DIRECTOR YEAR Untitled Billie Eilish post Apple + Documentary Film Camera Operator R.J Cutler Documentary production Unreaveling America: The Documentary Film Camera Operator Rachel Davis Production Robert Putnam Story Untitled Anthony Bourdain Documentary Film 1st AC Morgan Neville Production Project Untitled Jerry Brown Project Documentary Film 1st AC, Gaffer Marina Zenovich Production Documentary Series -The Witness: The Camera Operator Trials of Franky Jed Rothstein 2020 1st AC The Innocence FIles Netflix Carillo - The Witness: The Camera Operator Murder of Donal Jed Rothstein 2020 1st AC Sarpy D. Wade: Life Unexpected ESPN Documentary FIlm 1st AC, DIT Bob Metelus 2020 Camera Operator Lance ESPN Documentary FIlm Marina Zenovich 2020 1st AC, DIT Camera Operator M is for Magic Documentary FIlm Alexis Spraic 2019 1st AC, DIT Documentary Series 30 : 30 ESPN -Qualified 1st AC, DIT Jenna Ricker 2019 Documentary Series Kids Behind Bars: Life or A&E -Ronald Camera operator Katelyn Howes 2019 Parole -Preston Camera operator Katelyn Howes 2019 Documentary Series Camera Operator -The Cycle of Abuse Joshua Rofe 2019 1st AC, DIT -An Irresistable Camera Operator Joshua Rofe 2019 Lorena Amazon Impulse 1st AC, DIT -A woman in Camera Operator Joshua Rofe 2019 Trouble 1st AC, DIT Camera Operator -The Night Of Joshua Rofe 2019 1st AC, DIT Untouchable Hulu Documentary FIlm 1st AC., DIT Ursula Macfarlane 2019 Director of Automatic on the Road Dolby Digital Documentary Short Lewis Rapkin 2018 Photography Camera Operator Mark Jonathan Foster HBO Documentary FIlm 2018 1st AC, DIT Harris "B" camera 1st Juveniles FIlm Nico Sabenorio 2018 AC Robin Williams: Come Inside 1st AC, Gaffer, HBO Documentary FIlm Marina Zenovich 2018 My Mind DIT Additional Hans Block, The Cleaners Documentary FIlm 2018 CInematography Moritz Rieswieck 1st AC, Gaffer, The Price of Everything HBO Documentary FIlm Nathaniel Kahn 2018 DIT National Camera Operator Water and Power Documentary FIlm Marina Zenovich 2017 Geographic 1st AC, DIT Television 1st AC, Gaffer, The Dark Side of the Sun Discovery Nathaniel Kahn 2017 Documentary DIT Take Every Wave: The Life of Camera Operator IFC Films Documentary FIlm Rory Kennedy 2017 Laird Hamilton 1st AC, DIT
Los Angeles, California • 402 - 250 - 6950 • [email protected] • smolerdavid.com FILM DISTRIBUTOR FILM/ EPISODE POSITION DIRECTOR YEAR 1st AC, Gaffer, O.J.: Made in America ESPN Documentary FIlm DIT Ezra Edelaman 2016 Television Camrera Transformation MTV Documentary Operator Melissa Johnson 2016 Documentary Series PBS Norman Lear: American Masters Another Version of 1st AC Heidi Ewig, 2016 You Rachel Grady Camera Operator Rammstein in Amerika Documentary FIlm 1st AC, DIT Hannes Rossacher 2015 Documentary Series -Murder on the 1st AC Steve Rivo 2014 Death Row Stories CNN Mountain Camera Operator -Blood and Water 1st AC, DIT Ryan Miller 2015 Television Telescope Discovery Documentary 1st AC Nathaniel Kahn 2016 Queen Vee ESPN Documentary Short Camera Operator Melissa Johnson 2015 (Dis)Honesty: The Truth Salty Features Documentary FIlm Camera Operator Yael Melamede 2015 about Lies Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Cohen Media Documentary FIlm Camera Operator Chuck Workman 2014 Group Welles Documentary Series -A Dangerous Camera Operator Future 1st AC Sydney Trattner 2014 Years of Living Showtime Camera Operator Dangerously -The Surge 1st AC Sydney Trattner 2014 Camera Operator -Dry Season 1st AC Sydney Trattner 2014
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The Haunting of Lifetime -Michael Rapaprt Camera Operator Andrea De Brito 2013 -Gina Gershon Camera Operator Andrea De Brito 2013 All the President's Men Discovery Television Camera Operator Peter Schnall 2013 Revisited Channel Documentary Discovery Documentary Series Curiosity Channel -Sex in America 1st AC Mary Robertson 2012 Television 1st AC, Still Half the Sky PBS Documentary Photographer Maro Chermayeff 2012 Human Lampshade: A National Television 1st AC Steven Hoggard 2012 Holocaust Mystery Geographic Documentary Camera Operato Marina Abramovic: The 1st AC, Gaffer, HBO Documentary Film Mathew Akers 2012 Artist is Present Production Coordinator Laura Brownson, Lemon HBO Documentary Film 1st AC Beth Levison 2011 Documentary Series 1st AC, Still photographer, -Down the Road Additional sound Maro Chermayeff 2011 recordist 1st AC, Still photographer, -Born to be Circus Additional sound Maro Chermayeff 2011 recordist 1st AC, Still Circus PBS -Survival of the photographer, Fittest Additional sound Maro Chermayeff 2011 recordist 1st AC, Still photographer, -Change on Additional sound Maro Chermayeff 2011 recordist 1st AC, Still photographer, -One Ring Family Additional sound Maro Chermayeff 2011 recordist Associate Mann v. Ford HBO Documentary FIlm Producer Maro Chermayeff 2010
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