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
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.â€
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
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.â€
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