An Italian cinematographer with a fiery passion for stories with an intimate tone and a social impact, Ludovica Isidori holds an MA in Cinema and Television studies from IULM, Milano and a MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute, where she also received the Olivadotti Scholarship for craftsmanship excellence. 

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Before moving to the US, she worked with Franesco Zanot, a photography curator for FORMA, and trained under the fashion photographer Gianguido Rossi; the combination of those experiences shaped Ludovica’s eye for subtle and hidden beauty and her refined understanding of aesthetic rules. 

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Dreams in Nightmares, the independent feature film Ludovica lensed for director Shatara Michelle Ford, premiered at Berlinale 2025 and it's currently doing the festival circuit.

 

Test Pattern, the first collaboration between Ludovica and director director Ford, has been distributed by Kino Lorber and has received global appraise from high-profile magazines such as IndieWire, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times et al.

Ludovica’s lighting work is emphasized in The Rolling Stone and described as “something portentous and terrifying, a harbinger of the inevitable as - the protagonist - Renesha finds herself passing out in her assailant’s car”.

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In 2022 Ludovica worked on Sanctuary, a feature film starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbot and directed by Zach Wigon. The movie premiered at TIFF 2022. 

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Other projects worth mentioning are The Harbinger, an independent psychological horror film directed by Andy Mitton and produced by One Bad Idea Films, that premiered at Fantasia Film Festival, and Wakhri, directed by Iram Parveel Bilal and shot in Pakistan, that premiered at SXSW. 

 

Ludovica also worked for TV, having shot High Heel, a TV Pilot directed by Rochée Jeffrey and produced by Dre London, Post Malone, Christina Arquette and Trinidad James, and Season 2 of the TV show For the Love of Jason, for the network ALL BLK. 

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Ludovica has two movies in post production: The Watchful Eye, a mix-media horror movie for director Kris Cummins, whose short premiered at Screamfest and received lots of mediation attention, and The Technique, an 80s homage, psycho thriller, for director Brian McGreevy, starring Emma Roberts and Noomi Rapace.

 

In 2024, Ludovica was invited to join the AIC, the exclusive Italian Association of Cinematographers;

she is also a Film Independent Fellow and a Sundance Lab Fellow.

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