Maximilian Schmige

Maximilian Schmige is a Los Angeles based cinematographer, who has DP'ed over 100 projects. His work has taken him around the world, for shoots in USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Germany, Bulgaria, Norway, Serbia, Greece, Russia, India, Jordan, Malaysia and Thailand. He has filmed in places such as the Malaysian jungle in Borneo, the deserts of Jordan and outside the Kremlin in Moscow. U.S. production credits include network television shows for The CW, Fox, National Geographic and BET. He was born in Berlin, Germany, and has dual citizenship for Germany and Finland. He is the son of the well-known German movie and TV writer Hartmann Schmige. Maximilian Schmige graduated from the American Film Institute with a Masters in cinematography and was mentored by ASC cinematographer Karl-Walter Lindenlaub.