New March 2025 Issue of AC Arrives

Our March 2025 issue presents a special focus on lighting, including a discussion of onstage sun- and moonlight for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, scaled lighting for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl and supplementing LED-wall illumination for Flight Risk — as well as a spotlight on optics, including details on an innovative flaring technique for Skeleton Crew. Also featured in the issue are Captain America: Brave New World and profiles on three of this year’s ASC Awards honorees, John Simmons, ASC; Joan Churchill, ASC; and Kathleen Kennedy.

Here’s a complete breakdown on this issue:

• President’s Desk: Shelly Johnson, ASC discusses the devastating impact of the recent fires in Los Angeles and the launch of the ASC Relief Fund, which offers vital support to our members, staff and crews from the Locals 600, 728, and 80.

• Picture Partners: Director Julius Onah and cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau, ASC illuminate their approach to Captain America: Brave New World.

ASC members and co-directors of photography Sean Porter and David Klein discuss their collaboration on the series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and how they designed strategies to complement limitations they encountered, “rather than fight them,” as Porter says.

Cinematographer Dave Alex Riddett, BSC details how he and his team at Aardman Animations created classic noir and suspense motifs for the stop-motion caper Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

ASC Presidents Award honoree John Simmons, ASC traces his path from Chicago to Hollywood and his quest to create an inclusive filmmaking community.

Inaugural ASC Lifetime Documentary Award recipient Joan Churchill, ASC discusses her singular contributions to the nonfiction genre.

Producer and ASC Governors Award honoree Kathleen Kennedy recalls her Hollywood journey from production assistant to president of Lucasfilm.

• The Virtual World: Cinematographer Johnny Derango and visual-effects supervisor Michael Ralla detail their approach to virtual production on Flight Risk, a thriller set in a Cessna 208 aircraft.

• In Memoriam: Rexford L. Metz, ASC.

• Clubhouse News: The latest bulletins from the Society feature new members Sevdije Kastrati Dill, Natalie Kingston, Alejandro Martínez and Ravi Varman, and a tribute to photographer Jacek Laskus, ASC, PSC and the team that facilitated portraits of this year’s ASC Award honorees.

• Wrap Shot: A look back at the Super Cinerama Mobile, which took the format on tour during the 1960s.

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