Biography
Eric Branco is an American cinematographer. A native of the Bronx, New York City, he studied acting at HB Studio before enrolling in the film programme at the School of Visual Arts. He left to work in the lighting department on independent films in New York, later gaining his first cinematography credit on a music video shot in Tanzania.
Branco’s feature credits include Clemency (2019), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020), which won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing Award at Sundance. He has also shot Story Ave (2023) and television series including Let the Right One In and Bupkis. In 2019 he was named one of Variety’s “10 Cinematographers to Watch”, and in 2020 one of American Cinematographer’s “Rising Stars of Cinematography”. He joined the American Society of Cinematographers in 2025.
