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Michael Wallace

@backlotbandit

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Grip • Producer • Director
From shadows to storyboards.
Rigging visions into reality.
📍CA | NV | TX | GA
“Nature loves courage” – Terence McKenna

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Goodnight 2025. Good morning 2026.
#10000hours #showbiz #hollywood
#grip #producer

As always thank you for trusting me to be apart of your many sets. Thank you to all the friends I’ve made along the way. Thank you to everything that’s yet to come. This year l’ve failed and learned but haven’t given up.

Also I think I was about seven. Not much changed. 📸 taken in Los Angeles, California by @backlotbandit

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On days like today, I feel the weight of the moments I never captured. The moments I try to explain to people who had to be there. The moments that come to me in flashes when I’m reunited with those same people. The moments that I can no longer recall. I just wish I took more photos. by @backlotbandit

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Producing is faith in a picture the world has not yet seen. BTS: @w.vadym taken in Los Angeles, California by @backlotbandit

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a year ago

“Down to Gehenna or Up to the Throne. He travels fastest who travels alone.” - Rudyard Kipling taken in Texas by @backlotbandit

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The Desert is a magical place. BTS from Martin Garrix & Lauv’s new music video MAD. https://youtu.be/LvUtS-btnyU?si=atZsxpEEVX2_ebBf taken in Las Vegas, Nevada by @backlotbandit

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A little behind the scenes. taken in Los Angeles, California by @backlotbandit

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Alone in the dark I made a mark that no one could see. taken in Los Angeles, California by @backlotbandit

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a year ago

Mind over matter. Your time will come. taken in Los Angeles, California by @backlotbandit

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2 years ago

taken in Harbor Cove Beach , Ventura Harbor by @backlotbandit

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2 years ago

What can I say, I love my job. Wrote, Produced and Directed three short films and one Spec Commercial. Crewed mostly as a Swing, Grip or Key Grip for 62 Productions from Atlanta to Los Angeles. Totaling out to 720 hours spent on set. Only 9,280 left to go. taken in Los Angeles, California by @backlotbandit

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Locked in; things are happening. #film #filmindustry #workflow #process #courage #la #california #apture #filmmaking #movies #commercial #readytowork taken in Los Angeles, California by @backlotbandit

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“This is the last stop on the long road between the dream in a filmmakers head and the public to whom that dream is addressed.” - Orson Welles taken in Los Angeles, California by @backlotbandit

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