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Stephen
Lighthill, ASC Stephen Lighthill, ASC, was born in Massachusetts and raised in Connecticut. 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. Lighthill earned his first narrative credit in 1975 for Over- Under, Sideways- Down. It was for a public television program that was the forerunner to American Playhouse. By the late 1980s, Lighthill 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 ICG, representing directors of photography.
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