Russ graduated from Bates College with a double major in Studio Art and Political Science.
He has been working since 1994 continuously as a cameraman with extensive travel to over 35 countries. He shoots TV, film, travel, documentary film, food, corporate, and action sports. He's worked for clients in Thailand 3 times, the far west of China, the Amazon, Istanbul, Afghanistan, New Zealand and throughout America, for example. He specializes in travel and is a dual passport holder of the U.S. and the E.U. able to work in both places. After a successful 8 year run of making his own snowboard films all over the world, he turned freelance in 2001. He is the owner and operator of a RED Scarlet 4K Raw camera system among others and a Steadicam owner / operator.
Russ on location shooting
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"Habitual" Feature film, Red Camera, 2019
"Ultimate Adventure", June Lake, CA, 2016
Classic 50s 60s Ferraris race, Pebble Beach, MotorTrend, 2015
Drag Week, Hot Rod Magazine live broadcast, 2015
Lifetime Network TV series "Celebrity Bucket List", 2013
"Ultimate Adventure", Motor Trend, 2013
"Dusty Cars", RJ Films jib arm, 2013
Daniel Ellsberg Interview, Internet Archive, 2013
Cooking Channel Network TV series "Easy Chinese", 2011
SEMA International Car Show, Las Vegas, 2013
Top Truck Challenge, Hollister Hills, CA, 2009
"OxyMorons" Feature film, Red One camera, Boston, MA, 2010
Live Broadcast Villanova at Maine Football, 2010
Top Truck Challenge, Hollister Hills, CA, 2008
Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2006
New England Revolution playoff game, Foxboro, MA, 2006
Mt. Hutt, New Zealand on location for "Stolen Good", 2000
on location for "Children of the Trains", Klong Toei slum, Bangkok, Thailand, 2007
outside Kabul, Afghanistan, 2006
on location for "Eight Days and Six Hours", Monument Valley, AZ, 2006
the "O.R. of the Future", Mass General Hospital, 2008
"Pacific Fusion" TV Show, Philadelphia, PA, 2008
shooting for Camp Jones Gulch YMCA, La Honda, CA, 2007
on location, directing and shooting "Stolen Good", New Hampshire, 2000
"Not Your Mother's Washboard" documentary, Monterey, CA, 2008
My first film, "Far East", pic by Gary Land, Vermont, 1994
"WinCatherine: The Story of Wincatherine Nyambura Ndereba" documentary, Boston Marathon, 2010
Cooking / Travel show, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2009
"OxyMorons" Red One Feature film, Boston, 2010
on location for "Stolen Good", New Zealand, 2000
"Top Truck Challenge", pic by Jason Gonderman, Hollister Hills, CA, 2010
"Velocity" 16mm film, South Lake Tahoe, CA, 1997
"I Know What You Did Last Winter" film, Carson Pass, CA, 1998
on location for "Orange", Germany, 1999
Afghanistan, 2006
Thailand, 2006
Top Truck Challenge, Outdoor Network, Hollister Hills, CA, 2011
IMDB Link: partial film listing credits at IMDb here
Mouse here for partial list of CAMERAS I SHOOT WITH:
RED Scarlet 4K camera *
Sony PMW-350 HD ENG camera *
Panasonic VariCam
Sony F900R
RED One
Panasonic HDX900
Sony F55
Canon C300
Canon C100
Panasonic HPX500
Aaton XTR
Eclair NPR *
Sony HDC1000RLW
Sony HXC100K
Panasonic HPX170 *
Panasonic HVX200 *
Black Magic Ursa
Nikon D5200 *
Canon 5D Mark III
Beaulieu R16 *
Ikegami HK-388W
Sony FS-100
Sony EX-3
Sony EX-1
Thomson broadcast cameras
JVC HD250
JVC HD200
JVC HD110
Sony Z1U
Bolex H16 *
Sony DXC-D50
Sony DXC-D35
Panasonic DVX100b
Sony V1U
Canon XL2
Sony PD150
Sony PD170
SANKYO XL-40S *
Sony VX3 *
Sony VX2000
Panasonic SDX900
Keystone A16 *
* denotes cameras I own