Mike Krumlauf

Mike Krumlauf is an American Filmmaker from Naperville, Illinois. He spent his childhood and teenage years in Naperville, graduating from Naperville North High School in 2009. After high school Michael pursued the life of freelancing as a camera operator around the country, working on TV pilots, weddings, music videos and short films. In 2014, at the age of 23, Michael moved to Chicago, Illinois to pursue 2 years of film school at Tribeca Flashpoint College. He received his AAS degree in film in 2016. Upon completing film school, Mike was given the chance to film the 30th anniversary of Paramount Pictures' Ferris Bueller's Day Off in which he was able to network with the supporting cast of the film such as Eddie McClurg, and also had the honor to speak with Nancy Hughes (widow of filmmaker John Hughes). John Hughes' body of work has played a vital role in Mike's life and he considers John to be the greatest filmmaker of all time. Other filmmakers he admires are David Lynch, Steven Soderbergh, Gus Van Sant, and David Fincher. 2017 marked the year Krumlauf would release his first feature length film. A Place to Call His Own was a documentary about his best friend from high school Matt McMahon and the impact Matt left on his community. The film won Krumlauf 3rd place at the 2017 documentary film awards in Atlanta, Georgia. A Place to Call His Own is available to view free on YouTube. Mike, like many filmmakers, hopes for his break into the industry as a director/cinematographer, but is currently working as a freelancer behind the camera on various projects.