Bob is a veteran director/cameraman who has extensive documentary, national commercial and feature 2nd unit directing experience. Carmichael and his company are experts in capturing action and creating dynamic images in either motion or still capture. A recent online spot for the Made Movement Agency launching a new skin product line by 7th Generation, PSAs for the Colorado Department of Public Health, and Boulder’s drive to municipalize it’s energy grid, are recent projects that underscore Carmichael’s ability to create arresting imagery and direct dialogue. Executive Producer, Doug Millington, heads Carmichael Productions, Inc.

Carmichael brings a lifetime of high level sports and adventure skills to his projects. His areas of specialty include climbing, skiing, surfing, sailing as well as aerial photography and automotive action. He attended the University of Colorado where he participated in Division One football. His first job out of college was as a staff director for NFL Films. His first film, Break on Through , has been recognized as one of the seminal influences in adventure sports filmmaking. Bob directed the first American, all-woman climbing film with First Ascent. He introduced competition climbing to America and national television as the co creator and DP of the first American International Climbing Competition, as seen on CBS Sports.

Carmichael literally brought the word ‘extreme’ to the nation’s attention with his Academy Award nominated short, Fall Line, a film on extreme skiing down the steep east face of Wyoming’s Grand Teton.Bob was co-director and cameraman on that film with Greg Lowe. Carmichael won an Emmy Award for Special Achievement in Sports Programming by producing and directing a documentary film, Football in America that investigated traumatic injuries in football. For National Geographic Explorer Carmichael produced long from, groundbreaking documentaries on Big Wave Surfing and Modern Ice Climbing. The History Channel ran a four-hour series on Extreme Cold Weather Survival for which Carmichael received cinematography and writing credits. In 2010 Carmichael won 7 Telly Awards for his signature photoGRAPHICvideo  format for the band Maroon5. As a 2nd unit action director and cameraman Carmichael has credits on Navy SEALs, Star Trek, First Wives Club, Queens Logic and Bay Watch. Bob also directed a 48fps projection special venue film on the Daytona 500 that involved twenty-four Super 35mm action camera operators, helicopter aerials, large cranes, and high speed camera cars for stunt sequences. Carmichael has over 100 hours of helicopter aerial photography experience.

Commercially Bob has directed national spot projects for clients like: Reebok, Sprite, Ford, Merrill Lynch, Bayer, USMC, Burger King, Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger, Cadillac, Adidas Cologne, Disney World, Busch Gardens, Sea World, Six Flags, Molson Beer, Coors Beer, Sea.Doo, Kawasaki, Nautica, Hawaii, Mexico and BVI Tourism. Carmichael has co-written an action mountain screenplay, Fall Line. He has also directed a thirty-minute Internet narrative film entitled, Wilderness Within. Carmichael Productions, Inc. is in development with two HFR 3D capture and projection projects.