Michael Tien

Nacimiento : 1967-07-03, Exeter, Ontario, Canada

Películas

The Most Colorful Time of the Year
Director of Photography
Ryan is an elementary school teacher, who learns that he is colorblind. Michelle, an optometrist, and mother of one of his students, helps bring color into his life in time for the holidays.
Fly Away With Me
Director of Photography
When Angie moves into her “no pets allowed” building, a parrot arrives unexpectedly. New neighbor Ted and the dog he’s secretly sitting try to help her find the bird’s owner without being caught.
Rush for Your Life
Steadicam Operator
Tasha Brooks is a journalism student at a new college trying to land a spot on the student paper, but the editor, Clancy, tells her she needs a big story to break through. When Tasha hears about a student who died while pledging the Tau Theta Nu sorority, she decides to write an exposé on the hazing. Tasha goes undercover and pledges Tau Theta Nu, where sorority president Gabriela explains that in order to make the cut, pledges must complete a series of dares received via an app. It sounds easy, but things turn deadly when an anonymous user begins sending Tasha increasingly dangerous dares, as if they are trying to hurt her. As Tasha fights for her life, and digs into Tau Theta Nu's past, she realizes that there is a larger conspiracy afoot, and that everyone at this college hides dark secrets.
Road Trip Romance
Director of Photography
Una serie creciente de eventos desafortunados sigue retrasando el viaje de una joven a la boda de su hermana, un viaje que se ve obligada a emprender con el chico que fue su mayor rival en la escuela secundaria.
Lemonade Stand Romance
Director of Photography
When a little girl's lemonade stand is officially shut down by the authorities because of an outdated bylaw, it’s not just the locals of the small town that have a thing or two to say about it, the media are reporting on it too!
A Christmas Stray
Director of Photography
A man finds himself hopelessly stranded in a small town on Christmas Eve, unable to shake the stray dog who ran him off the road, and irresistibly drawn to the free-spirited, local veterinarian.
Maps and Mistletoe
Director of Photography
Emilia es una cartógrafa que debe diseñar un novedoso mapa del tesoro del Polo Norte para el día de Navidad.
Fin de semana mortal
Director of Photography
Una mujer intenta superar su divorcio, asiste a un retiro para solteros, pero comienza a ver que las cosas no son lo que parecen.
La madrastra malvada
Director of Photography
Las hermanas gemelas establecieron un perfil de citas para su padre, pero la mujer que conoce conspira para aprovecharse de los padres solteros adinerados.
Baby, It's Cold Inside
Director of Photography
When a travel agent up for a promotion is directed to forgo her tropical vacation to instead visit the world-famous Ice Hotel, she discovers her sacrifices are more than compensated.
Fit for a Prince
Director of Photography
Una prometedora costurera diseña vestidos para un baile benéfico con la esperanza de impresionar al invitado real. Aunque los vestidos parecen destinados al desastre, es posible que los dos se las arreglen para encontrar su felicidad para siempre.
Navidad Sobre Ruedas
Director of Photography
Al enterarse de que su tío vendió el convertible vintage de su mamá, un auto lleno de recuerdos navideños, Ashley solicita la ayuda del abogado de su tío, Duncan, para recuperarlo.
Christmas Crush
Director of Photography
When holiday fanatic Addie (Cindy Sampson) makes a Christmas wish for her next door neighbor Sam (Robin Dunne) to fall in love with her, she’s not expecting anything to happen – and she definitely isn’t expecting the wish to go awry and cause her other neighbor, Pete (Chris Violette) to fall in love instead. When Pete’s romantic gestures grow more and more over-the-top, Addie recruits Sam to help. With Sam’s assistance, can Addie break the spell by Christmas? Or will she spend the rest of her life dealing with a love-lorn Pete?
Mistletoe & Menorahs
Director of Photography
When a determined toy company executive, Christy, must learn about Hanukkah in a hurry in order to land a big account, she enlists the help of her co-worker's friend Jonathan, who happens to also be in desperate need of turning his bachelor pad into a Christmas Wonderland to impress his girlfriend's father.
Una boda bajo cero
Director of Photography
Cuando Jenny asiste a la boda de invierno de su hermana en un hotel de hielo, su corazón se derrite por el padrino, el problema es que inesperadamente trae un "más uno"(Lana, su novia) aparentemente frustrando sus esperanzas de un romance invernal.
A Christmas for the Books
Director of Photography
Lifestyle guru and romance expert, Joanna Moret, has developed a fool-proof strategy for ending holiday loneliness and it's all detailed in her best-selling book, The Love Audit. After appearing on a morning show, she is offered the biggest opportunity of her career—to throw the MacAllen Holiday Gala—and if all goes well she'll get her own TV show. Little do her fans, or the MacAllen's, know that she is newly single and can't seem to apply her principles to her own love life. Joanna asks the morning show producer, Ted to pretend they are a couple or risk being exposed as a fraud.
The Fruit Machine
Cinematography
Some softened by age and sadness, others loud and angry, the voices of the survivors of Canada’s public service homosexual purge are now united, and determined. They are torqued by decades of silence, years of being ignored. They demand justice, and they want to be heard. Theirs is a story of betrayal that is both national and deeply personal. Men and women who dedicated their lives to public service, some signing oaths of allegiance and servitude; casualties of a political tapestry woven in the fibers of acute security measures that somehow became normalized.
Jacob's Wrath
Director of Photography
Alone in an airport's bathroom, a father embarks on a dark and twisted daydream that leads him to consider assassinating his daughter's alleged murderer and the three young men who were present when the tragedy occurred.
Clown
Camera Operator
Jack es un adorable padre, que decide darle una sorpresa a su hijo por su sexto cumpleaños. Buscando una idea original encuentra un traje de payaso y se lo prueba pensando que causará sensación el día de la celebración. Pero lo que pensaba que sería el mejor día en la vida del pequeño pronto se convertirá en toda una pesadilla, cuando descubran que el traje está maldito y convierte en asesinos a sus portadores. Sin despojarse del disfraz, y con una sed de sangre inagotable y la incapacidad para distinguir sus propias emociones, la familia al completo deberá tomar peligrosas decisiones si quieren acabar con aquello. Para conseguir romper la maldición se enfrentarán a fuerzas intangibles que pondrán a prueba sus lazos y la confianza en ellos mismos. El miedo se apoderará de ellos según el poder de esa condena comience a aumentar, comenzando una carrera contrareloj o las ansias de matar se volverán permanentes.
La casa al final de la calle
Second Unit Director of Photography
Cuando una chica adolescente se muda junto a su madre a un nuevo pueblo, descubre que su casa esta frente a otra en la que tuvo lugar un doble asesinato. Las cosas comenzarán a complicarse cuando la joven se hace amiga de un chico que sobrevivió a la masacre.
Demasiado joven para amar
Camera Operator
Max Doyle y Jessica Carpenter son dos estudiantes adolescentes de 17 años que deciden casarse a pesar de su juventud. La noticia no es bien recibida por sus familiares, que no los consideran lo bastante maduros para tomar esa clase de compromiso, aunque terminan aceptándola. Jess es aceptada en Harvard para proseguir su ambición de toda la vida de convertirse en un cirujano ortopédico; Max decide sin embargo no aceptar cualquier otra universidad mientras espera otra oportunidad para ingresar. Mientras se ocupación en un empleo de la construcción para poder seguir estando juntos... (FILMAFFINITY)
House of Luk
Cinematography
House of Luk is a quirky drama following the lives of three loveable losers who frequent a Chinese restaurant and discover the true meaning in their lives when they each decipher a cryptic message in a fortune cookie.