After graduating with honors from Brown University, Nate received a scholarship to
attend the UCLA MFA program in film. But with a year completed, and looking for
more direct experience, Nate became an assistant cameraman to provide him with a
perfect vantage point to observe great filmmakers intimately. Indeed, his first
professional job was as a 2nd Assistant Cameraperson on John Frankenheimer's film
of 52 PICKUP. In his career as an Assistant Camera and Camera Operator, Nate had the opportunity to work with directors such as Paul Verhoeven, Bill Forsythe, Pat O'Connor, Michael
Hoffman, Roland Emmerich, Paul Schrader, Peter Bogdonavich, Brad Silberling, Dennis
Hopper and Joe Dante.
In 2006, Nate was the Director of Photography on THE FIX (Adam Kane, dir), a short
subject starring Robert Patrick and David Palmer that received the Best Drama Award
at the 2007 Los Angeles Short Film Festival and honored for cinematography by being
selected for the 2006 International Cinematographers Guild Showcase for excellence
in cinematography.
After camera operating the pilot of HEROES (NBC), Nate was promoted to Director
of Photography in season 1. He has continued shooting large scale series and pilots
like TORCHWOOD:MIRACLE DAY (STARZ/BBC), FALLING SKIES (Dreamworks/TNT),
DIG - a USA event series shot in Israel and others. Nate was nominated for an ASC Award for the episode of TIMELESS (NBC/Sony) "King of the Delta Blues." In 2019, he shot SWAMP THING for James Wan's Atomic Monster/DC and the award winning SMALL TOWN WISCONSIN (dir. Niels Mueller) which had its premier at the 2020 Sarajevo Film Festival now available on demand. Nate was nominated for an Emmy Award for the pilot of MADE FOR LOVE (HBOMax). He shot episodes of ARCHIVE 81 (Netflix), MADE FOR LOVE (HBOMax), additional photography in Budapest on SHADOW AND BONE (Netflix) and the opening two episodes of season 2 of OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (HBOMax) in New Zealand. Most recently, Nate shot the Los Angeles Unit of additional photography for MADAME WEB (Sony).
Nate is proud to have been admitted to The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) in 2014. He has also been teaching, having conducted workshops and lectures on the relationship of cinematography and screenwriting, and the relationship of technology and film art at Brown, master classes at The ASC, guest lectures at the AFI and LMU, and screenwriting at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
