Michael Balfry

Movies

S.W.A.T.: Under Siege
Cinematography
When a D.E.A. and S.W.A.T. cartel takedown ends in a shootout, S.W.A.T. Agent Travis Hall seizes a mysterious prisoner taking him into custody. Before long, the S.W.A.T. compound is under siege by wave-after-wave of assault teams attempting to recover the prisoner known as “The Scorpion” for the tattoo blazed across his back. When Travis discovers that his prisoner is a Secret Ops double agent planted within the cartel, it’s up to him and his expert S.W.A.T. team to keep “The Scorpion” and his billion dollar secrets safe.
The Bridge
Director of Photography
The sweeping tale of Molly Callens and Ryan Kelly, two young students who share a profound friendship their first semester in college, a time that becomes the defining moment of their lives.
Mr. Miracle
Cinematography
Heavenly angel Harry Mills is sent to Earth on a trial assignment to intervene in the life of a woman who needs help getting her life on track after the death of her father. With a deadline of Christmas day, he attempts to help her heal in order to embrace a new future, and an unexpected love, just in time to celebrate the miracle of the holiday season.
Evangeline
Director of Photography
Evangeline (Kat de Lieva) has left her sheltered upbringing to reinvent herself in college. As she begins to break out of her shell, she attracts the attention of a sociopathic fraternity leader (Richard Harmon) and his two cohorts. “Beaten and left for dead, Evangeline finds herself trapped in a supernatural nightmare, where she is caught between salvation and vengeance. But to save herself, Evangeline discovers she must make the most horrifying choice of all…
Ice Road Terror
Cinematography
A giant flesh-eating reptile takes the Arctic region by storm.
A Family Thanksgiving
Director of Photography
A happily single, self-absorbed, workaholic corporate lawyer is living the high life in New York City until she awakes in alternative reality. Now a wife and stay-at-home mom, Claudia struggles to make sense of her new life.
Encounter with Danger
Director of Photography
Lori's fiancee Jack disappears after she accompanies him on a business trip. After she discovers he was about to expose a corruption scandal, all traces of Jack's existence vanish as well. Does Jack really exist or is he a fragment of Lori's imagination? She sets out on a wild hunt for answers.
Christmas in Canaan
Director of Photography
Set in the 1960s, Christmas in Canaan is a drama about a black family and a white family that learn to love each other out of their Christian beliefs.
Dim Sum Funeral
Director of Photography
An Irish funeral has a wake. A Jewish funeral has sitting shiva. A traditional Chinese funeral is something else entirely. Thats what the estranged siblings of the Chinese-American Xiao family must undergo upon news of their mothers death. The one brother and three sisters dont get along, however they share one thing: hatred for their domineering and manipulative mother, the Dragon Lady."
Paparazzi Princess: The Paris Hilton Story
Director of Photography
A look at the lavish lifestyles of young, wealthy girls living in Hollywood.
Past Lies
Director of Photography
An ordinary mom lives a perfect life until a visit from an FBI agent threatens to drag her back into a criminal past.
Making Mr. Right
Director of Photography
Eddie, a poor street conman, has his 'guess in which briefcase' trick ruined by Manhattan lifestyle magazine deputy editor Hallie Galloway. Due to a bet with her boss, she must transform Eddie into a dashingly eligible bachelor for a charity auction. In order to pay back his generous benefactor, restaurateur Angelo, Eddie accepts. He not only proves a quick learner and born charmer, the gentleman in him awakes and so does love in their harts. But their true pasts catch up.
The Unquiet
Director of Photography
Do you believe in ghosts? Well, whether you do or not, you'll want to tune in for this superspooky flick that takes you inside an abandoned -- and possibly haunted! -- women's prison. A skeptic and her ex-husband, a documentary filmmaker, both with differing opinions about the supernatural, stumble across some scary revelations about the facility's violent and abusive history.
Devil's Diary
Director of Photography
When a group of small-town teenagers find the “Devil's Diary,” a book that embodies the evil of Satan by physically manifesting any evil thought that is written in it, all hell breaks loose. Unearthed after centuries of concealment, the Devil's Diary wreaks havoc and destruction on the high school students who found it, and their entire community. Can their town be saved from complete ruin?
Destination: Infestation
Director of Photography
While on a flight home from Colombia, the plane that Dr. Carrie Ross and her daughter are on is attacked by bullet ants whose sting is the most painful and deadliest on the planet. Joining forces with air marshal Ethan Hart, Dr. Ross, an entomologist, tries desperately to save the flight from disaster. In the end, their struggle brings them closer together and offers the couple hope for the future.
A Valentine Carol
Director of Photography
In this Valentine’s Day riff on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a cynical, superficial radio talk show host is visited by the ghost of her predecessor, who shows her the error of her ways.
The Perfect Suspect
Director of Photography
When young Jo comes home, she finds out that her mothers' husband has been killed. The police investigation points to Maureen, her mother, who is arrested. However, the daughter believes in her mother's innocence so she does all she can to find the true killer.
To Have and to Hold
Director of Photography
Tom hasn't been what you'd call the most faithful husband, and now he's gotten himself mixed up with a bad girl named Lisa. After their scandalous affair, Tom kicks Lisa to the curb and she vows to get revenge.
Family in Hiding
Director of Photography
A woman witnesses the murder of a prosecutor by a criminal he is trying to convict. She informs the FBI, who then places her and her family in Witness Protection. And their lives are turned upside down. The agent tries to get the criminal but it seems he has someone in the FBI helping him. And when her daughter calls her boyfriend, it places her family in danger.
Mind Games
Director of Photography
A woman puts her own life on the line by helping a private investigator gather evidence against her potentially dangerous husband.
From the Ashes
Director of Photography
Mark is a concert pianist who has lost his lover, David to AIDS. When he starts to see visions of David, he finally realizes that it's okay to move on.
Birth
Director of Photography
A lush, evocative dance video, featuring Alvin Erasga Tolentino. Light/dark, simple/complex, birth/death.
Birth
Producer
A lush, evocative dance video, featuring Alvin Erasga Tolentino. Light/dark, simple/complex, birth/death.