Over the years, Apple has focused a lot of focus on its high-end iPhone Pro camera capabilities. This has pushed the phone’s Pro line as a serious videography tool and there are many features that regular users can never use, but who are getting fast support with professional videographers and film directors.

The company is late to work late with the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) on films shot with iPhone. This year, now in the second recurrence of the program, Apple has announced that it is working on 4 cinema-quality films with young and upcoming film directors who are using the iPhone 16 Pro to shoot their films.

Apple says that the filmmakers like Amrita Bagchi, Rohin Ravendron Nair, Chanakya Vyas, and Shalini Vijaykumar are fully relying for the second year of the initiative of the initiatives of their films on the iPhone 16 Pro Max for the second year of their films and the secondary unit shooting, which they are partnership with both.

In the official blog post shared by Apple, filmmakers show that the pro-level features in the iPhone 16 Pro Max are used in the pro-level features-log format, support for external SSDs, 4K, 4K, and 5X telephoto lenses for Max variants.

And when the iPhone is allowing filmmakers to catch the scenes, they are often edited their footage on the latest MacBook Pro model equipped with Apple’s M4 Max Chip. There is the ability to post-moving video footage, according to directors, it is helpful in sharpen its workflow and real-time color grading.

The latest iPhone 16 Pro, when in the right hands, is actually filled with some powerful videography features. For example, director Amrita Bagchi shared that for her film Tincoria, she used the 4K120 FPS capacity of the iPhone to slow down acute sequences and create a tight book thriller set against the background of a dye factory. “This (iPhone 16 Pro Max) is like a rocket machine … On a tight schedule, I can just shoot on my iPhone on 4K120 FPS, and still have tremendous flexibility to change pacing during editing on my MacBook Pro,” she says.

Writer-director Chanakya Vyas is shooting for his film Kovarti, who examines the relationship between a typewriter and a typist with the iPhone. “Using the small form factor of the iPhone, I can keep the camera inside the typewriter and capture its pov,” they say.

The other 2 films, which are part of Mami select, have sought by Vetri Maran and are watching Lal by Shalini Vijaykumar.

This is not the first time we are seeing iPhone being used by professional filmmakers. One of the most famous examples of iPhone footage in a film is from Florida Project by Oscar winning Sean Baker. Finally, Baker needed to shoot a small clip inside the Disney Park. To avoid a long process required in obtaining approval to shoot inside the park and to avoid related delays, the baker used an iPhone 6s to shoot the bus and judiciously.

The iPhone has come a long way since those days. Now iPhone 16 Pro support features such as phone priorus logs such as colloid-grading make it possible. At the same time, they also come with advanced audio-rids options. In fact, features such as audio mix reduce the need to use external microphones during shoots.