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Norman Magnuson is a New York based Cinematographer, with over 15 years of experience crafting his skills on hundreds of projects in the commercial, documentary and narrative spaces. His award winning work has been screened at major film festivals around the world, including The Tribeca Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, The Florida Film Festival, Dances with Films, FilmQuest and SeriesFest, and garnered hundreds of millions of views on social and broadcast platforms.

His commercial client list includes Google, Nike, Apple, Ikea, Samsung & Uber, among many other notable brands, working through top agencies such as Ogilvy, Digitas, Havas and VML. Norman’s broadcast clients include Netflix, Hulu, PBS, Paramount, CBS, NBC and Nickelodeon.

Honing his craft in the early days of branded content as a staff creator for Google, Norman developed a tasteful style which is the coalescence of a naturalistic documentary approach combined with more stylistic commercial driven visuals.

He is always looking for new opportunities for creativity and collaboration.

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