July 2025 Issue of American Cinematographer

The July 2025 issue presents a special focus on lighting for streaming series, including coverage of Severance, Black Mirror, Doctor Who, Adolescence and Daredevil: Born Again. An expanded New Products and Services department offers a look at camera tracking for virtual production.

·       Cinematographer/director/producer Jessica Lee Gagné; cinematographers David Lanzenberg, ASC and Suzie Lavelle, BSC, ISC; director/executive producer Ben Stiller; and director Uta Briesewitz, ASC discuss their work on Season 2 of the Apple TV Plus thriller Severance.

·       Jo Willems, ASC, SBC; Stephan Pehrsson, BSC; Philipp Haberlandt, BVK; and Álvaro Gutiérrez, AEC discuss their creative strategies for the Netflix sci-fi drama Black Mirror.

·       Ashley Barron, ACS details her approach to “The Story & the Engine,” a unique recent episode of the BBC/Disney Plus series Doctor Who.

·       Cinematographer Matthew Lewis and gaffer Max Hodgkinson illuminate a pivotal episode of the Netflix limited series Adolescence.

·       Cinematographers Hillary Fyfe Spera and Pedro Gómez Millán, AMC discuss their work on the Marvel/Disney Plus superhero drama Daredevil: Born Again.

·       New Products and Services: A special section features a variety of tools for tracking production cameras in virtual-production environments.

·       In Memoriam: Bruce Logan, ASC.

·       Wrap Shot: The Godfather (1972), shot by Gordon Willis, ASC and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

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