ABOUT

Blaine Dunkley is a New York City & Montana based Cinematographer working across narrative film, documentary, and music, and a 2026 ICG Local 600 Emerging Cinematographer Awards honoree. His DP work spans narrative features and shorts — anchored by the pop-surrealist noir thriller The Blue Rose — alongside documentary work including the Netflix series Heart of Invictus, from the Oscar-winning team behind The White Helmets, 2nd Unit DP on The Haunting of Pennhurst (Tribeca 2026), and lead DP on The Undefeated, currently in post-production. His additional photographic work on Tigre Gente earned the Salem Film Festival 2022 American Cinematographer Award, and Wild Hogs & Saffron won Best Documentary Short at the Academy Qualifying RiverRun Film Festival in 2024.

In music, his DP credits include videos for Hozier, Misterwives, Elle King, Winona Oak, and Banners — whose "Got It In You (Acoustic)" he directed, shot, and edited, surpassing 31 million YouTube views — along with the SST Sessions with JS Ondara. His music industry credits include VEVO, Columbia Records, Island, and Verve, with additional commercial and branded work for BBC Storyworks, Puma, Jack Daniel's, Foxwoods Resort, and Coca-Cola.

He also works as a camera, Steadicam, and drone operator across narrative, live news, and music. [See operator page →]

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