Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization 
Drytunes
Location Mandeville, Louisiana, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
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Michael Applebaum has spent his entire 24-year career in the film production industry. In the past 10 years, Michael has worked as a cinematographer and camera operator on more than 50 major studio feature films and TV movies, and hundreds of episodes of network television programs. Applebaum is a six-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee, and won the
Emmy for outstanding cinematography in both 2009 and 2010.
Prior to his work in film, Michael received a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry with a concentration in Broadcast Journalism from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia in 1990. During the course of his career he has been employed by advertising agencies, network TV affiliates, and production companies. He has been a freelance cameraman in the feature film and episodic TV world for the past 20 years. Today, Applebaum resides in Mandeville, Louisiana with his wife and three children. He is an Executive Board Member of The International Cinematographer’s Guild, and a voting member of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Consumer Electronics Association, and The Bluetooth Service Industry Group.
