“We tried to break the ALEXA; I try to break every camera I use—not physically picking it up and throwing it, but I try to push them as far as they go, the biggest latitudes, to see where they fail, and it was interesting because the ALEXA just sucked it all up,” says Thornton. River comments, “Really the ALEXA will just work, it’s as simple as that. It wasn’t a look or anything; it was just that it will work where we’re going to take it.”

Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso captured with AMIRA on Heitor Dhalia’s documentary film "On Yoga: The Architecture of Peace."