Wael Shukha, Steadicam Operator

Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 6 a.m.

I don’t know if he can get any more interesting. He grew up a Catholic Arab Israeli in Nazareth and after emigrating to America, began working behind the scenes in Hollywood as a cameraman and steadicam operator.  

Over the last twenty years, he’s worked on big budget shows like “Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD,” and a litany of cool music videos, commercials big brands, and films.  No matter what project he’s involved with, he almost always has an alien looking rig attached to his body called a steadicam. that can weigh as much as 40 pounds and costs upwards of $100,000… all to keep the visuals that we love, interesting, moving and smooth.

And while all of this is really cool… outside of the film industry, he’s not only a devoted husband and proud dad of three adorable kids, but he’s spent the last several years of his life on his own travels… inward.  He teaches a class on cleansing through the power of breath and sound vibration and he’s in the studio with a didgeridoo to prove it.  

Today, I’m going to talk with him not just about traveling around the world, but traveling within ourselves.

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