Eliot Grigo is an American cinematographer from Rockport, Maine. He began his training in photographic arts and photojournalism at Maine Media Workshops and Rochester Institute of Technology, before earning a BFA in Film from Syracuse University in 2017. A background in mountain bike racing and documentary storytelling shaped his early visual sensibility—attentive, grounded, and deeply observational. He was introduced to 35mm filmmaking during a semester at FAMU International in Prague, and launched him into narrative filmmaking.

Recent notable work includes La Mujer de Héctor (dir. Ricardo Varona), which premiered at Palm Springs and won top prizes at Miami Film Festival and New Faces New Voices, and Classmates (dir. Major Dorfman), which premiered at Hamptons International and received a Vimeo Staff Pick in 2025.

He completed his MFA at the AFI Conservatory (Class of 2025), where his thesis, Degree of Certainty, was awarded an Amazon Studios grant to produce the film and research applications of Artificial Intelligence. For the film, he designed a hybrid celluloid-digital workflow to emulate the tonal character of photochemical print film.

Grigo’s cinematography centers on emotional realism and graphic precision—telling stories that explore memory, place, and the quiet patterns of human experience.

*Eliot Grigo is based in Los Angeles, California, and is ready to travel domestically and internationally for work.