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This year’s festival is filled with debut Sundancers, many of whom are also first-time filmmakers who leaned heavily on their more experienced union cinematographers. by David Geffner / Photos Courtesy of the Sundance Institute or as Otherwise Noted   Scanning the program for the 2025 version of the Sundance Film Festival (which arrives just weeks after a series of devastating wildfires in Southern California, impacting film and television crews around the region), the first common thread that looms is the […]

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FX’s newest anthology series is a tough, compelling watch that says as much about the ruthless industrialization of American sports as it does its troubled protagonist. by Margot Lester / Photos by Eric Liebowitz & Michael Parmelee / FX    In 2013, NFL star tight-end Aaron Hernandez murdered Odin Lloyd. The crime rocked the league, the New England Patriots, and their fans. But that’s only part of the story. The event catalyzed a review of Hernandez’s life – how what […]

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Kira Kelly, ASC, hits the hardwood for Writer/Director Sydney Freeland’s personal tale of hooping life on the reservation. by David Geffner / Photos by Lewis Jacobs / Netflix   The opening moments of the new Netflix feature Rez Ball, directed and co-written (with Sterlin Harjo) by Sydney Freeland, and shot by Local 600 Director of Photography Kira Kelly, ASC, feel familiar enough, albeit in a world rarely visualized in cinema. After several sweeping anamorphic frames of New Mexico’s vast high desert, […]

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Directors of Photography Joe “Jody” Williams and Michael Watson mix 16mm Ektachrome with 8K digital capture for the period sports/crime drama Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist by Ted Elrick / Photos by Eli Joshua Adé, Parrish Lewis, Fernando Decillis / Peacock   In 1970, Muhammed Ali was heading for a comeback fight with Jerry Quarry. Ali had been stripped of his heavyweight crown and banned from boxing for refusing to be drafted into the military and going to Vietnam in […]

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Director: Lotte Ruules
Cinematographer: Max van de Pol
At the age of nine, Sam starts to realize that she is different from her classmates. Over the years, she receives many different diagnoses, except the correct one. Finally, after a childhood with much uncertainty, she knows: autism.

Director: Danny Boyle
Cinematographer: Darius Khondji
On vacation in Thailand, Richard sets out for an island rumored to be a solitary beach paradise.

Director: Barry Levinson
Cinematographer: Stéphane Fontaine
Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a rough time trying to get his new picture made.

Director: Tim Miller
Cinematographer: Ken Seng
An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.

Director: Paul Feig, Randall Einhorn, Ken Kwapis, Greg Daniels, Jeffrey Blitz, Ken Whittingham, David Rogers, Charles McDougall, Matt Sohn, Paul Lieberstein, B.J. Novak, Tucker Gates, Harold Ramis, Brent Forrester, Jennifer Celotta, Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Troy Miller, Bryan Gordon, Dennie Gordon, Victor Nelli Jr., Jason Reitman, Julian Farino, Joss Whedon, Seth Gordon, Dean Holland, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Mindy Kaling, Ed Helms, Rodman Flender, Claire Scanlon, Amy Heckerling, Miguel Arteta, Roger Nygard, J.J. Abrams, Craig Zisk, Stephen Merchant, Reginald Hudlin, Asaad Kelada, Alex Hardcastle, Danny Leiner, John Scott, Marc Webb, Charlie Grandy, Michael Spiller, Eric Appel, Brian Baumgartner, Daniel Chun, Bryan Cranston, Kelly Cantley-Kashima, Jon Favreau, Lee Kirk, Jesse Peretz
Cinematographer: Matt Sohn, Randall Einhorn, Sarah Levy, Peter Smokler
A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, tedium and romance.

Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Director: Fil Ieropoulos
Cinematographer: Mihalis Gkatzogias
Ten drag performers find solace in each other as they rebel against their oppressive reality and those who control it.

Director: Osgood Perkins
Cinematographer: Andres Arochi
In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.

Director: Amin Pourbarghi
Cinematographer: Costa Konstantinou

Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg
A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a young waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against sentient machines, while a human soldier from the same war is sent to protect her at all costs.

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Director: Antonios Vallindras
Cinematographer: Mihalis Gkatzogias
In December 1948, an unofficial Christmas truce allows soldiers from opposing sides of the Greek Civil War to share a moving moment before returning to the barbaric reality.

Director: Dida Andrade, Andradina Azevedo
Cinematographer: Andradina Azevedo
This dramatization shows the intense life of Eike Batista during the founding of the oil company OGX and the meteoric rise and fall of his empire.

Director: Inez Eltink
Cinematographer: Jor Broeder
Becoming the best version of yourself, the goal everyone consciously or unconsciously strives for. Everything can always be better, more beautiful, bigger, faster. Nowadays silence is the only time we can relax, but the world we l...

Director: Susanne Hagen
Cinematographer: Jesse Post
A film about the silent power of the introvert and the magic of fantasy.

Director: James Newhook
Cinematographer: James Newhook
A man recounts to a friend a series of dreams in which he travels through time with the aid of a feather.

Director: James Cameron
Cinematographer: Russell Carpenter
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Enrico Alexander Giordano
Cinematographer: Daniel Brouwer
A 40-year-old broker leaves everything and turns his back on a society that no longer holds an attraction for him.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cinematographer: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they've entered the center of a dark and sinister event.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.

Director: Matthew Heineman
Cinematographer: Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll
Filmmaker Matthew Heineman examines the state of the ongoing drug problem along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: William A. Fraker
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Bill Butler
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Director: Adam Elliot
Cinematographer: Gerald Thompson
In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Thimios Bakatakis
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.

Director: Andrew Burn
Cinematographer: Andrew Burn
After a mysterious event, a small community of neighbors erupt into chaos as they suspect hostile aliens are invading. Leo, the reluctant HOA president takes the lead and guides his fellow neighbors on a quest for answers. However...

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan
A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual g...

Director: Sergio Leone
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.

Director: Lena Dunham, Jesse Peretz, Richard Shepard, Jamie Babbit, Jody Lee Lipes, Tricia Brock, Jenni Konner, Claudia Weill, Alex Karpovsky, Nisha Ganatra
Cinematographer: Tim Ives, Jody Lee Lipes, Matthew Santo, Hernan Otaño
A comedy about the experiences of a group of girls in their early 20s.

Director: Ralph Hemecker, Ron Underwood, Dean White, Romeo Tirone, Steve Pearlman, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Billy Gierhart, David Solomon, Milan Cheylov, Alrick Riley, Eagle Egilsson, David Barrett, Paul A. Edwards, Guy Ferland, Mario Van Peebles, Geofrey Hildrew, Jon Amiel, Morgan Beggs, Mick Garris, Sharat Raju, Greg Beeman, Mark Mylod, Victor Nelli Jr., Anthony Hemingway, Bryan Spicer, Michael Waxman, David Boyd, Ciaran Donnelly, Andy Goddard, Alex Zakrzewski, Ernest R. Dickerson, Adam Horowitz, Mairzee Almas, Norman Buckley, Rob Duncan, Eriq La Salle, Jennifer Lynch, Craig Powell, Alex Kalymnios, Michael Schultz, Tara Nicole Weyr, Kate Woods, Tessa Blake, Nina Lopez-Corrado, Steve Miner, Antonio Negret, Lana Parrilla, Ellen S. Pressman
Cinematographer: Stephen Jackson, Tony Mirza, Steven Fierberg
A young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cinematographer: Thimios Bakatakis
Three teenagers live isolated, without leaving their house, because their over-protective parents say they can only leave when their dogtooth falls out.

Director: Tom Verica, Oliver Bokelberg, Allison Liddi-Brown, Tony Goldwyn, Randy Zisk, Jann Turner, Jeannot Szwarc, Steve Robin, Paul McCrane, Mark Tinker, Debbie Allen, Scott Foley, Sharat Raju, Stephen Cragg, Michael Katleman, Ron Underwood, Roxann Dawson, Julie Anne Robinson, Zetna Fuentes, Regina King, Steph Green, Nzingha Stewart, Nicole Rubio, Paul McGuigan, Bethany Rooney, Jessica Yu, Ava DuVernay, Kevin Bray, David Rodriguez, John Terlesky, Chandra Wilson, Paris Barclay, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Millicent Shelton, Gregory T. Evans, Joe Morton, Daryn Okada, Darby Stanchfield, Kerry Washington, Valerie Weiss
Cinematographer: Oliver Bokelberg, Michael G. Wojciechowski, Daryn Okada, Steven G. Fracol, Andrew Lemon
A former White House Communications Director starts her own crisis management firm only to realize her clients are not the only ones with secrets.

Director: Jesper Elming
Cinematographer: Claus Frederiksen

Director: Ludovic Bernard, Louis Leterrier, Hugo Gélin, Xavier Gens, Daniel Grou, Marcela Said
Cinematographer: Christophe Nuyens, Maxime Cointe, Nicolas Massart, Martial Schmeltz
Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

Director: William Asher, James V. Kern, Marc Daniels, Ralph Levy
Cinematographer: Karl Freund, Sidney Hickox, Robert De Grasse
A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations.

Director: David Von Ancken, Adam Bernstein, John Dahl, Bart Freundlich, Michael Lehmann, David Duchovny, Seith Mann, Scott Winant, Michael Weaver, Stephen Hopkins, Ken Whittingham, Scott Z. Burns, Tucker Gates, Michael Lembeck, Daniel Ducovny, Jake Kasdan, Beth McCarthy-Miller, Helen Hunt, Millicent Shelton, Eric Stoltz
Cinematographer: Michael Weaver, Tim Bellen, Andy Graham, Peter Levy
A writer tries to juggle his career, his relationship with his daughter and his ex-girlfriend, as well as his appetite for beautiful women.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cinematographer: Don Burgess
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.

Director: Hideo Nakata
Cinematographer: Gabriel Beristain
6 months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.

Director: Peter Yates
Cinematographer: Christopher Challis
In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck.

Director: Kenneth Fink, Richard J. Lewis, Alec Smight, Danny Cannon, Brad Tanenbaum, Jeffrey G. Hunt, Louis Shaw Milito, Frank Waldeck, Philip Conserva, Martha Coolidge, David Grossman, Duane Clark, Bill Eagles, Terrence O'Hara, Paris Barclay, Michael Nankin, Eagle Egilsson, Lou Antonio, Thomas J. Wright, Charles Correll, Peter Markle, Deran Sarafian, Michael Slovis, Christopher Leitch, Karen Gaviola, Matt Earl Beesley, Rob Bailey, Quentin Tarantino, William Friedkin, Nathan Hope, Paul McCrane, Michael Shapiro, Michael W. Watkins, Jefery Levy, Allison Liddi-Brown, John Patterson, Oz Scott, Roy H. Wagner, Tucker Gates, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Nelson McCormick, J. Miller Tobin, Andrew Baron, Jean de Segonzac, Bryan Spicer, Dean White, Jeff Woolnough, Andrew Bernstein, Naren Shankar, Charles Haid, Steven Felder, David Semel, Kevin Bray, Timothy Beavers, Alrick Riley, Claudia Yarmy
Cinematographer: Christian Sebaldt, Crescenzo G.P. Notarile, Frank Byers, Michael Barrett, Michael Slovis, Nathan Hope, Cort Fey, Jonathan West, Nelson Cragg, James L. Carter, Roy H. Wagner, David Stockton, Robert Gantz, Scott Galinsky, Ken Glassing, Matthew Jensen, Gale Tattersall, Gary B. Kibbe, Eliot Rockett, Christopher Faloona
Follows a group of Crime Scene Investigators (CSI's) who work with the Las Vegas Police Department (LVPD) to solve crimes by meticulously examining evidence by using advanced scientific methods and technology in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.