Mike Long was born in Okinawa, Japan and raised outside of San Francisco, California.  After dabbling for years as a rock musician, he was invited to screen a short film at the New York Underground Film Festival, and in 1999 he moved to New York City full time to pursue film and TV editing. 

Over the last two decades he has worked alongside directors and producers like Lawrence Kasdan, Stanley Nelson, Bob Ezrin, and Keanu Reeves, on projects for the likes of Lucasfilm, HBO, Showtime, Disney, Netflix, PBS, CCTV, Al Jazeera Kids and NASA.  His work has been screened in museums and festivals all over the world, including the Berlin, Toronto, Hong Kong and Tribeca Film Festivals, the Jumbotron for Superbowl XLII, and is part of the permanent collection at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

He has won five Emmy Awards, two DuPont Awards and has been nominated for a Canadian Academy Award.  He currently lives in the Bay Area, where he spends his free time hiking and playing music with his wife and son.