Stephen Lighthill Pres. ASC:
CLASS OF 1958
Hillhouse High SchoolClass of 1958
New haven, CT
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Stephen Lighthill, ASC, was born in Massachusetts and raised in Connecticut. He has been a filmmaker, specializing in cinematography for his entire career of 40 years. In the early sixties he studied journalism, and segued into filmmaking at Boston University. Lighthill traveled to San Francisco with a friend intending to pick up an award for a student film. He found work on local news film and documentary crews and pretty soon, Lighthill was shooting film as freelancer for CBS News and 60 Minutes. He also helped organize a collective, which raised funds for and produced Sons and Daughters, a two-hour theatrical documentary about the anti-war movement in the San Francisco Bay area. Much of that footage became the heart and soul of Berkeley in the 60s, a theatrical documentary lensed by Lighthill that earned an Oscar nomination in 1990. He was also one of the primary documentary camera operators on Gimmie Shelter. Lighthill earned his first narrative credit in 1975 for Over-Under, Sideways-Down for PBSÂ American Playhouse. By the late 1980s, Light...Expand for more
hill was focusing on narrative filmmaking. HBO gave him his first big break with an anthology series called Vietnam War Story in 1988. His subsequent narrative credits include episodic series Earth 2, Nash Bridges, and The Huntress. His features and telefilms include: Break Of Dawn, Spirit of 76, Hot Summer Winds, Shimmer, Open Season, Stranger in My House, The Perfect Daughter, Kidnapped In Paradise, and The Crying Child. Lighthill is a member of the National Executive Board of International Cinematorgraphers Guild, representing directors of photography. He is also a member of the Board Of Governors of the honary society: the American society Of Cinematographers. In 2000 the Society Of Camera Operators awarded Lighthill their Life Time Achievement Award. He has taught cinematography at annual camera guild seminars, and at The USC School Of Cinema-Television. Stephen is currently Senior Filmmaker In Residence: Cinematography, at the American Film Institute. There is a profile of Stephen in the March 2005 issue of American Cinematographer magazine.
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