Miguel Bunster

Birth : 1979-04-08, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

History

Miguel Bunster is a cinematographer Even though he was born in the United States Miguel grew up in Chile where he started his film career. Initially his first jobs at a young age were in 3D animation but after working in different departments he got to work as a DP and never looked back. In 2004 he entered the cinematography program at the American Film Institute and after graduation he started shooting films, music videos and commercials, Now a days he spends most of his time in Chile but still moves between Chile, United States, Brazil and any place where he can go to work with new people in different projects.

Movies

Casi famoso

Director of Photography

After his power goes out, an actor has to go to a coffee shop and audition via Skype for a famous director.

Cirqo

Director of Photography

Two prisoners escape execution by the police and become successful circus clowns in Pinochet's Chile.

My Father's Memory

Director of Photography

After the death of his mother, a repressed tv writer is forced to take care of his father who is loosing his memory, obsessed with his wife is still alive and lost.

Heroes

Director of Photography

A group of senior people will unite against the evil plan of a Spanish businessman who wants to get Chile out of Latin America to annex it to Europe.

Videoclub

Director of Photography

In 1992, a young man who works at a video store takes shelter in it (along with his friends and family) during a "possible" zombie invasion.

Caleuche: The Call of the Sea

Director of Photography

A young woman who suffers a strange disease must travel to a mysterious island in South America, where myths and reality are one and the same.

Have You Seen Lupita?

Camera Operator

Lupita, a young mexican girl, runs away from her family who want to commit her into a hospital. She will start a journey that will take us into a world that seems crazier than she is. With her sensuality, innocence and romanticism, Lupita invites us to think that the world can be experienced in other ways.

Have You Seen Lupita?

Director of Photography

I Will Follow

Director of Photography

Chronicles a day in the life of a grieving woman, and the twelve visitors who help her move forward.

The New Big Ball with Neil Hamburger

Camera Operator

A TV pilot starring Neil Hamburger.

La Linea

Director of Photography

The story centers around veteran assassin Mark Shields as he tracks down, Pelon, the elusive head of the Salazar Crime Cartel. Through twists of fate, Shields ends up with a local woman, Olivia who is also fighting her own demons for the sake of her daughter. Set in the rich and atmospheric backdrop of Tijuana, Mexico, La Linea (The Line) is full of action and drama.

Bye Bye Benjamin

Director of Photography

Benjamin Osgood, a savvy ten-year-old business executive, meets a coworker's daughter, and must decide how grown up he wants to be.

Tendida mirando las estrellas

Best Boy Grip

Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.