Technical stuff

FilmLight completes highly-esteemed jury, naming Mandy Walker as jury president and George Miller as guest of honour.

The FilmLight Colour Awards are open to colourists on ANY grading platform, and we have six categories this year: Theatrical Feature, TV/Episodic, Commercial, Music Video, Spotlight, and our newest award, Emerging Talent, for colourists aged18-35.

Cinegear is a great "rendez-vous" of the industry builders, renters and brands.
A US size "micro Salon".

Here’s a full list of On Film winners at Cannes 2024! It was a great showing for film. Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best First Film (Camera d’or) along with four winners in Critics’ Week and the winner of the inaugural Audience Award in Directors’ Fortnight.

Lucie Baudinaud, AFC, long-time collaborator of Emilie Noblet, photographed her latest feature film, Bis Repetita. She talks to Panavision France about her shooting choices for the film.

With the newly developed P+S Technik SPM-Camera Mount, you can mount the Cooke SP3 Lenses on Arri Alexa Mini, Amira, Mini LF and Alexa 35 cameras.

Shooting on Kodak film, French DP Hélène Louvart AFC blended 35mm and 16mm camera formats and aspect ratios to fuse reality with fantasy for Alice Rohrwacher’s acclaimed La Chimera.

Visitors to this year’s NAB should not miss a visit to the Bebob stand (Central Hall, Bavarian Pavilion, C6732). The Munich-based battery manufacturer is bringing various new products to Las Vegas and will also be providing an insight into many product launches in the near future. The overriding themes will be performance, flexibility, quality and sustainability – both in terms of powering the latest cameras and ultra-modern lights.

FilmLight, best known for its grading system Baselight, today announced the introduction of Nara. Nara, which will be exhibited at various partner booths at NAB 2024, provides media professionals, including post-production facilities and VFX houses, instant access to media from anywhere in the world – streaming and indexing to streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and review processes.

In the world of filmmaking, every frame is a canvas, and every lens is a brushstroke. Just as a painter selects their tools with meticulous care, filmmakers rely on precision-crafted lenses to bring their vision to life on the screen. As one of the premium manufacturers in the world of optics, Ernst Leitz Wetzlar is proud to bring their legacy of optical innovation and engineering excellence to the world of cine zoom lenses.

Director Cédric Nicolas-Troyan and cinematographer Renaud Chassaing, AFC, share with us their artistic vision and their work on the filming of episodes 1, 2, 3 & 4 of the series "Furies".

Memory sees Mexican writer and director Michel Franco push into new territory with a film that follows two characters who both have troubled relationships with memory. Jessica Chastain’s Sylvia is a social worker and recovering alcoholic with a history of sexual abuse while Peter Sarsgaard’s Saul is a widower suffering from dementia. The narrative weaves a story of uncertainty even as the two grow closer. Behind the camera was long-time collaborating cinematographer Yves Cape, AFC and the film opened in competition at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.

Be ready for the possible future requests of your Producers! Starting from Cantar X3 & Mini V3.532.C12 or higher, the 32 bits float audio file format is now available in the audio settings.

The free myColor app provides handheld access to Rosco’s full color filter library.

Pierre Maïllis-Laval and Nicolas Silhol met at La Fémis Paris cinema school and worked together since on different projects. After the shooting of the feature length Anti-Squat, the cinematographer speaks with Panavision France about his work on the film.

Project "Omega x Orbis" is a 26 minutes long advertising documentary film, directed by Gianluca Matarrese, and lensed by Kevin Brunet with the Panavision Ultra Speed and Super Speed "Vintage" lenses. The DoP explains his aesthetic choices.

Victor Seguin, AFC, lensed Spirit of Ecstasy (La Vénus d’argent), by Héléna Klotz, with two different Panavision lenses series, on purpose. He speaks about the project and explains his choices.

Angénieux is pleased to announce the introduction of the new EZ 3 multi-format zoom lens in collaboration with its long-time partners Band Pro Film & Digital, Inc and Jebsen Consumer Products Co Ltd.