Kenny McMillan is a Los Angeles-based cinematographer whose work spans feature documentaries, narrative film, and high-end commercial production.
He is the cinematographer of Fly: Spud Webb, a forthcoming feature documentary on the NBA slam dunk champion produced by World Within Studios, with perspectives from Dominique Wilkins, Doc Rivers, and Mike Fratello — his most sustained creative collaboration to date, building a visual language around one of basketball’s most unlikely and enduring stories.
His broader credits speak to the caliber of productions he moves through. He served as camera operator on Fight for Glory: 2024 World Series, the Apple TV+ docuseries directed by Emmy winner and Oscar nominee R.J. Cutler, and as 2nd Unit DP on both How to Change the World, the World Within Studios and Religion of Sports series executive produced by Mark Cuban and Gotham Chopra, and the Bruce Willis feature Detective Knight: Independence. Commercial clients include P&Co, Mini, Outside Life, Adam Savage’s Tested, and Death & Co, for whom he shot Fashioned, their new professional cocktail education platform.
Kenny’s approach is rooted in heightened naturalism: images that feel discovered rather than constructed, even when they’re not. That foundation, combined with years of in-depth conversations with some of the world’s leading cinematographers through his podcast Frame & Reference, has given him both a precise visual language and the fluency to work across documentary, narrative, and commercial production without losing coherence as an image-maker. In prep, he goes deep and takes the time to understand how each director thinks and communicates. On set, that translates into a DP who can serve as the bridge between a director’s vision and every department required to execute it.
As a freelance colorist of 6 years, his understanding of the image extends beyond capture, applying that full-spectrum understanding of the image from set through final delivery.
He is an owner/operator based in Los Angeles, available with camera packages including the Sony F55 and Canon C500 Mark II.
