Michael Galinsky

Michael Galinsky
Born	1969 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Education	New York University (BA)
Occupation	Filmmaker, cinematographer, photographer

Michael Galinsky (born 1969) is an American filmmaker, cinematographer, photographer, and musician who has produced and directed a number of documentaries, several of them in collaboration with his now-wife, Suki Hawley. With their partner David Beilinson, they run a production and distribution company called Rumur.

Galinsky is a native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he was born in 1969. In his youth he enjoyed basketball, biking, reading, and eventually found interest in photography. His twin brother is the noted social psychologist, Adam Galinsky.

He attended New York University, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in religious studies. “I was interested in photography,” he later told an interviewer, “but felt odd about going to art school, so I went to a college that had a lot of photography classes and took 1 a year” while pursuing a religious studies major. “So I basically minored in photo....I ended up auditing a film production class after college for a few weeks. At the time I was working as a production assistant on films”.

After graduating from college, he was “working as a PA and basic all-around grunt” and “was also doing some photo work and wanted to make films.” When he met Hawley at a party, she was a film-school student, and he “talked her into dropping out so that [they] could make a film instead. [He] knew that no one else would give [him] the chance to shoot.”

Galinsky has been making films with Suki Hawley since 1994. Their first two films, Half-Cocked (1994) and Radiation (1999), were narrative features. They were followed by the documentary Horns and Halos (2002), which they made in partnership with David Beilinson. Soon after, they formed Rumur, a collaborative production studio.

Galinsky served as producer and director or co-director of Radiation (1999), Horns and Halos (2002), Code 33 (2005), Miami Manhunt (2008), Battle for Brooklyn (2011), and Who Took Johnny (2013).

He has worked as a cinematographer, cameraman, or director of photography on all of the above films, as well as on Half-Cocked (1994), Texas Gold (2005), August in the Empire State (2006), Lucky Lake (2006), and Repeat Attenders (2014).

He received a writing credit on Half-Cocked (1994), Radiation (1999), and Knives in My Throat: The Year I Survived While My Mind Tried to Kill Me (2005).

He was also credited with sound and sound design on Code 33 and as composer of the musical score for Half-Cocked.

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