Today we’d like to introduce you to Pedro Gomez Millan.
Hi Pedro, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I was born and raised in Mexico City. My father is a writer and my mother was a University teacher. When I was a teenager my dad asked me if I wanted stills or a video camera for my birthday present. I chose to take photos and he gave me a Canon camera, I started taking pictures right away and later on, I set up a dark room with my best friend where we developed and print our own pictures. Working on the darkroom was my favorite thing to do, I would play my favorite CDs and spent hours listening to music and developing images. I would often lose track of time and remember my girlfriend at the time wanting to break up with me because I was always late to the movies with her.
After high school, I studied philosophy but then changed to communication and major in film. My classmates were nervous around the S16mm camera but because of my photographic background, I felt pretty comfortable exposing film and ended up shooting most of my classmate’s short films.
Right after college, I moved for a year to Los Angeles and then got accepted into the NYU Graduate Film program at Tisch. It’s been on of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I found a very supportive community of artists and filmmakers that elevate each other until today. It’s such a demanding program that helped many of us find a voice as filmmakers and challenge ourselves as artists and human beings.
Filmmaking is such a competitive industry and after NYU I shot on as many projects as I could possible do. I was lucky enough to get hired right away on some independent films in NYC and then one project lead to the next. I’ve been traveling a lot for work and it was until 2017 that I moved back to LA and found my base in the west coast again.
I am currently represented by APA Agency and continue to shoot Film and TV projects.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
For a long time, I thought being an immigrant in this country was an obstacle. And a lot of times it’s still the case but I personally was able to understand that having a different culture or a different way of viewing things doesn’t have to necessarily be a hurdle and could actually be play in my advantage. It allows me to bring a specific point of view and refreshing angle, especially in the arts or film industry.
I’ve been away from my family for 15 years and that’s probably one of the hardest struggles. Of course, I’ve seen them in all this time and we’ve visited each other but my parents and siblings still live in Mexico City and I left back in 2005.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I am a cinematographer or DP (Director of Photography) and mostly work on film and TV. Some of my most recent television shows are Gentefied, Search Party, Little America and The Lincoln Lawyer. Every project is a challenge, they take so much time and energy that when I say yes to something I try my best to help achieve the best version of that show that could possibly exist so I feel proud of all of them. Little America has been the most recent one so maybe I feel particularly happy about it at the moment. I encourage everyone to check it out if someone’s looking for a new show to watch.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.Pedrogomezmillan.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/pedrogmillan?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=
