28 YEARS LATER - with Anthony Dod Mantle

Team Deakins

James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 164 - 28 YEARS LATER - with Anthony Dod Mantle

In this special episode of the Team Deakins Podcast, cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (Season 1, Episode 68) returns to discuss his work on 28 YEARS LATER. The film was shot extensively using modified iPhones, and Anthony shares his early conversations with director Danny Boyle about the film’s intended rural setting that informed their decision to commit to using the devices. Anthony later explains how he jailbroke the iPhone’s camera system with the help of tech advisors and employees at Apple, and we discuss how the limitations of the phone forced Anthony to adjust the amount of light he used while filming. We also learn how the bar cam system actually works, and Anthony details the type of VFX work done throughout the film. We later investigate why the sequel was shot with an Alexa, and Anthony describes the elaborate build of the Bone Temple location featured prominently in both films.

Recommended Viewing: 28 YEARS LATER

This episode is sponsored by Sandstorm & Aputure

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to season two of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:13.7	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:21.4	This episode is sponsored by Sandstorm, the Technodali specialist now based at Ealing Studios in London.
0:30.8	The Technodali is a fully repeatable camera crane and motion control in one, allowing cinematographers to hand craft a shot,
0:39.6	and then repeat it instantly and frame accurately for visual effects.
0:45.2	Find them on Instagram and YouTube at Sandstorm underscore films.
0:54.1	This episode is sponsored by Aperture and its new Storm. films.
1:02.3	This episode is sponsored by Aperture and its new Storm XT52, the industry's most powerful LED point source light.
1:04.8	Brighter than a 6K HMI empowered by Aperture's revolutionary Blair light engine,
1:14.9	the Storm XT-52 is both a tunable white light and also the brightest ever adjustable color LED.
1:19.4	Storm XT-52, unrivaled output, only from Aperture.
1:28.3	Today we're speaking with a cinematographer, whose credits include the celebration, Slumdog Millionaire, and most recently, 28 years later.
1:37.3	He's always been fearless in his choice of what he uses to capture the image.
1:42.3	In Slumdog Millionaire, he used traditional cameras alongside
1:46.0	consumer digital cameras. In 1997, he shot a gut-wrenching film that we love, the celebration,
1:54.4	using a Sony DCR PC3, showing us it's not the choice of camera, but it's the content and what you do with it that makes a strong film.
2:04.2	And so it's not a surprise that his latest film, 28 years later, was shot on, yes, an iPhone.
2:12.7	We're so pleased to welcome Anthony Dodd Mantle.
2:16.6	Anthony, thank you for doing this.
2:18.6	Thanks. I'd say, hello, both of you, lovely people. Nice to be back.
2:22.5	You've been on the podcast before, so we've asked you our normal question of how did you
2:27.1	get to where you are today. So we'd like to jump right in and ask, how did you become so
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