Biography

Martin Lisius is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of StormStock (1993), a collection of premium weather and climate footage he captures on film, 4K and 16K video for licensed use in TV and film productions. Lisius is responsible for photographing the first-ever violent class tornado on 35mm motion picture film (1998), the only 35mm footage of Hurricane Katrina making landfall (2005), and for creating the first production to be entirely produced on 16K video (Prairie Wind, 2018). His content is licensed by top-tier directors for use in feature films, documentaries and commercials. Clients include Warner Bros, NBC Universal, Netflix, BBC Studios, Leo Burnett and others. Lisius was a finalist for 2023 Footage Person of the Year, an award given by FOCAL International for significant innovations in the creation and preservation of footage archives. He directs and produces documentaries and promos through his production company Prairie Pictures, Inc.
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The more buttons on the camera, the more rain protection they need. The Sony camcorders have a lot of buttons and they need raincoats." He adds, "I don't think anything can make the Arriflex stop working. It's like a tank.

I'm very safe, and I carefully plan how I intercept a storm. I always have redundant safety measures in place, so I don't have any cool stories about close calls. For me, it's just another day at the office. That's how I've been able to do it for decades.

The artistic vision begets the technology, which is the way it should always be.

I wanted to try something different, something more immersive. I knew I could build a 16K camera system, I just didn't know how good the results would be until I tried it.