The September 2025 issue presents a special focus on international production, featuring coverage of 28 Years Later (shot in the U.K.), The Fantastic Four: First Steps (U.K. and Spain), Hundertdreizehn (Austria and Germany), The Eternaut (Argentina) and The Return of the Projectionist (Azerbaijan). Also in the issue are respective reports on the ASC’s recent AI Summit and Kodak’s enhancement of Vision3 film stocks.
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President’s Desk: Mandy Walker, ASC, ACS reflects on how the ASC and American Cinematographer help showcase the work of filmmakers across the globe and foster an “international ecosystem.”
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Anthony Dod Mantle, ASC, BSC, DFF discusses how he and director Danny Boyle found and achieved the look of the horror-thriller 28 Years Later, and 1st AC David Churchyard provides a technical deep dive into using iPhones for the ambitious sequel project.
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Jess Hall, ASC, BSC and visual-effects supervisor Scott Stokdyk unpack the bold aesthetic of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, including the in-camera and VFX processes behind the creation of fantastical characters and settings.
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Ralph Kaechele, BVK discusses how he and his collaborators on the six-episode miniseries Hundertdreizehn created a narrative from multiple perspectives through “fragments of time.”
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The Eternaut cinematographer Gastón Girod details the process of bringing an iconic sci-fi comic to the screen and leveraging VFX and virtual-production technologies to help achieve a feeling of realism.
- Society members, filmmakers and technologists gathered for the ASC AI Summit, “Visual Artistry in the Age of AI,” to discuss the latest developments in generative artificial intelligence and the technology’s impact on the industry.
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Tools of the Trade: Kodak’s enhancements of Vision3 film stocks offer technical and environmental improvements while maintaining high image quality.
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Global Village: Cinematographer Daniel Guliyev and director Orkhan Aghazadeh discuss the challenges of shooting the documentary The Return of the Projectionist — winner of the American Cinematographer Award at the Salem Film Fest in Massachusetts — with limited gear and crew in remote locations.
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Wrap Shot: Richard Crudo, ASC reflects on the zombie-horror classic Night of the Living Dead (1968), shot and directed by George A. Romero.
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