Death Valley Location Scout & Film Production Services
Death Valley Location Scouting and Filming Permits Services
Acclaimed landscape photographer and lifelong Death Valley explorer-naturalist Michael E. Gordon is Death Valley’s premier film location scout and cinematography guide, specializing in Death Valley filming locations, filming permits, local crew coordination, and full-service production partnership for commercials, television, feature films, automotive campaigns, or fashion photo shoots. We also offer the largest available collection of Death Valley stock photography for license in your production. We help you plan your Death Valley production from the start to ensure a stress-free shooting environment while in Death Valley, and our expertise ensures that your production is cost-effective and efficient.
Michael is a southern California native and resident who has explored, hiked, studied, and photographed the Death Valley territory for more than thirty-five years. His passion, enthusiasm, and knowledge of this fascinating and otherworldly landscape will inspire your production.
Michael’s intimate familiarity with every corner of Death Valley National Park, its moods, its light, ensures that your shoot happens in the perfect spot. He knows what’s around the curve of every road and he knows what lies around the next bend in every canyon. This isn’t just hyperbole - it’s experience.
Michael’s long relationship with the National Park Service ensures expedited filming permits where required (in most cases, permits and fees are not required for filming that involves eight or fewer individuals and no props).
We are fully insured, First Aid/CPR trained and certified, and carry a satellite phone at all times for your production’s safety. We operate legally under Commercial Use Authorization from the U.S. National Park Service.
Selected productions: Apertura Films; NHK Japan; Casey Rosenberg/TikTok
Please contact us to inquire how we can help your Death Valley film production!
Broadcast in Japan in April 2015, Michael is one of four Death Valley experts featured in the NHK Great Nature (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) "Death Valley" feature-length documentary film.
