Roy Wanguhu · Cinematographer / Director of Photography · San Francisco Bay Area and worldwide.
Sparks off a weld. A robotic arm moving with the patience of a dancer. Steel bending under load until the instant before it breaks. The cold, even blue of a semiconductor line. There is a film in all of it, and finding it is the craft. I shoot the companies building the physical future, manufacturing, robotics, aerospace, industrial AI, and pull the image out of work that's hard to picture, let alone explain.
Impressive cinematography was never the goal. The goal is a film that a buyer, an investor, or a recruit understands in a single watch, because understanding is the first sale. The right camera and lens matter, but they are tools, not the message. What carries a film is knowing where the truth of the work lives, and framing it so the audience leans in.
I've spent twenty years earning that, across feature films, commercials, and documentary work, for Fortune 100 companies and first-time founders alike. Netflix, Google, Intel, Tesla, Rolex, Nike, Netscope, Simpson Strong-Tie. The range is the point. Feature and commercial craft is what keeps a film about complex technical work from looking like a corporate video.
That work has taken me to twenty-two countries across five continents, including thirteen African nations and a feature film shot in Nigeria, from Alaska to the Atacama, from Iceland's glaciers to the Scottish Highlands. Every one of them different, all of them alike in a single way: the image is never handed to you. Drop me anywhere, in any conditions, and I will find it and come back with the story.
As an ARRI Alexa 35 owner-operator, I can arrive with a production-ready camera package built around the system I use every day. The package can be tailored with Signature Primes, monitoring, wireless, lighting, grip and licensed drone capability to suit the production.
If your company makes something the world should understand and doesn't yet, let's talk.
Netflix, Google, Intel, Tesla, Rolex, Nike, Netscope, Hydro Flask, Splunk, Spire Global, Simpson Strong-Tie.