Biography
Michael Svitak is a cinematographer whose credits include director of photography on episodes 7 and 8 of the 2022 HBO Max miniseries The Staircase, for which he also served as 2nd unit director of photography on the first six episodes.
He studied film production in Boulder, Colorado. In 2008 he received the Emerging Cinematographer’s Award from the International Cinematographers Guild for the short film Noisemaker. Svitak has worked as director of photography on 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain (2017) and as tandem director of photography on season 4 of the Apple TV+ series Servant (2023).
His other credits include second unit or additional photography on films such as Nightcrawler (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Hotel Artemis (2018) and Kate (2021), as well as 2nd unit work with Darius Khondji on the series Too Old to Die Young.
