About

Mark Schwartzbard is a cinematographer based in Los Angeles. He has shot seventeen narrative features including Stella Meghie’s THE PHOTOGRAPH, Sophia Takal's BLACK CHRISTMAS and ALWAYS SHINE, Rick Alverson's THE COMEDY, Demetri Martin's DEAN, Courteney Cox's JUST BEFORE I GO, and Bryan Wizemann's ABOUT SUNNY and YOU MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME. 

On the television side, he shot the first two seasons of MASTER OF NONE and two seasons of LOVE for Netflix, as well as a few episodes of SOCIAL DISTANCE. He shot three seasons of RESERVATION DOGS for FX/Hulu, alternated on season one of BASED ON A TRUE STORY for Peacock, shot season one of FOREVER for Amazon, season one of LOOT for Apple+, and season one of LOVE, VICTOR for Hulu.  For HBO he shot a couple episodes of CRASHING.  He’s shot wonderful pilots that were sadly not picked up for directors including Lena Dunham, Jesse Peretz, and Dean Holland.

He’s shot three documentary features and been lucky enough to contribute bits and pieces to several others, especially Morgan Neville’s movies 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, BEST OF ENEMIES, KEITH RICHARDS: UNDER THE INFLUENCE, and THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS, and series including THE NEXT THING YOU EAT, ABSTRACT, WATCH THE SOUND WITH MARK RONSON, BREAKFAST LUNCH and DINNER, and SHANGRI-LA, as well as National Geographic’s MARS and PBS’ HOW WE GOT TO NOW.

Commercial clients include Google, Facebook, Toyota, Nissan, Benjamin Moore, and The Obama Foundation.

Before all that he spent a decade working as a camera assistant in New York, where he got to work on films including Woody Allen’s HOLLYWOOD ENDING, and Martin Scorsese’s THE DEPARTED as well as LITTLE CHILDREN, RENT, HITCH, POLLOCK and, the most fun of all, BORAT which led to work as a camera operator on director Larry Charles’ next few projects, including RELIGULOUS and BRUNO.