Michael Tien

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

参加作品

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
An escalating series of unfortunate events keeps delaying a young woman’s journey to her sister’s wedding – a journey she is forced to take with the guy who was her biggest rival in high school.
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When a little girl's lemonade stand is officially shut down by the authorities because of an outdated bylaw, it’s not just the locals of the small town that have a thing or two to say about it, the media are reporting on it too!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 Martin, a cartographer of school maps, has plans for a cozy Christmas at home until her boss has a last-minute project for her, designing a novelty treasure map of the North Pole. Emilia decides to seek out the expertise of North Pole explorer Drew Campbell, who reluctantly agrees to help her. As the two work closely, they discover more than either of them ever expected.
Deadly Mom Retreat
Director of Photography
A woman tries to move on past her divorce, she goes to a singles retreat, but begins to see that things aren't what they seem.
Evil Stepmom
Director of Photography
Twin sisters set up a dating profile for their dad, but the woman he meets plots to take advantage of wealthy single fathers.
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
A promising seamstress designs dresses for a Charity Ball hoping to impress the royal guest. Though the dresses seem destined for disaster, the two still may manage to find their happily ever after.
Christmas on Wheels
Director of Photography
Upon learning that her uncle sold her Mom's vintage convertible -- a car full of Christmas memories -- Ashley enlists the help of her uncle's attorney, Duncan, to get it back.
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.
Winter Castle
Director of Photography
When Jenny attends her sister’s winter wedding at an ice hotel, her heart melts over the best man, the problem is he unexpectedly brings a “plus one,” seemingly dashing her hopes for a wintery romance.
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.
クラウン
Camera Operator
A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.
ボディ・ハント
Second Unit Director of Photography
17歳の女子高生エリッサは母サラとともにシカゴから郊外の一軒家に引っ越して来る。その家は、4年前に隣家でキャリー・アンという少女が両親を惨殺した事件が起きたため、安く借りることができたのだ。問題の隣家には、今はキャリー・アンの兄で幼い頃から伯母に育てられていたライアンが1人で暮らしているが、ライアンは周囲から変人と見られ、孤立していた。 ある夜、ふとしたことからエリッサはライアンと知り合う。もの静かで音楽の趣味の合うライアンに惹かれたエリッサは、母サラの反対を無視して、ライアンと付き合うようになる。しかし、ライアンには秘密があった。実は4年前の事件後、失踪したことになっているキャリー・アンを密かに地下室に閉じ込め、面倒を見ていたのだ。キャリー・アンは幼い頃、ブランコから落ちて頭を打ったことから精神に異常を来すようになったのだが、その事故の原因が自分にあると思っているライアンは罪悪感からキャリー・アンを匿っていたのだ。ところがある夜、キャリー・アンが地下室から逃げ出す。ライアンは必死にキャリー・アンを取り押さえるが、はずみで彼女を死なせてしまう。ライアンはキャリー・アンの遺体を始末する。
Too Young to Marry
Camera Operator
Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.
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.