Film & Television Production

Behind The Scenes

Open Heart Nominated for 2012 Oscar Best Documentary Short

Director Kief Davidson's film was shot primarily with the Canon EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera.

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Case Studies

The Canon EOS C300 Digital Cameras Went Unchecked In Filming Of Departure Date

The Canon EOS C300 Digital Cameras Went Unchecked In Filming Of Departure Date

Canon EOS C300 Digital Cinema Cameras fly high in first-ever movie filmed completely on airplanes

Interviews

Los Angeles Film Festival Interview: Hoyte van Hoytema

To bring his latest project to the next level, acclaimed cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema NSC—the visionary behind 2010's The Fighter—called upon the Cinema EOS C300.

Events

  • June 12 - 14, 2013 | Orlando, FL

    The InfoComm13 Exhibit

    Collaborate. Communicate. Connect. The InfoComm 13 conference exhibit is specifically designed for professionals in the audiovisual, information communications and systems integration industries, and showcases the latest must-see technologies.

  • June 12 - 14, 2013

    VER To Exhibit At InfoComm 13

    The VER team will be exhibiting at InfoComm, the leading marketplace for audio, display, lighting, rental and staging for the AV Industry, and will feature a live production showcase of side-by-side camera comparisons.

  • June 13 - 23, 2013 | Los Angeles, CA

    The 19th LA Film Festival

    The Los Angeles Film Festival is globally recognized as a cinematic event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and provides a platform for the public to mingle with acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals and emerging new talent.

Case Studies

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Behind the Scenes

Be The First To See The Latest Footage From On Set

  • Pulse: Brought To Life With The EOS C100

    The compact EOS C100 allowed the filmmakers of stillmotion to document the story of BioBeats across three countries in just over a week, a perfectly atypical camera for a shoot without a typical day.
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  • Open Heart Nominated for 2012 Oscar Best Documentary Short

    Director Kief Davidson's film was shot primarily with the Canon EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera.

  • Man and Beast — A Look Inside

    Canon EOS technology takes viewers inside the mind of Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, whose lifelong bond with wild cats provided a refuge as a stutter isolated him from the human race.
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  • The Ticket: Love Is Hard: Filming With The EOS-1D C Is Easier

    For The Ticket, director Director Po Chan and her crew embraced the EOS-1D C to capture this story of true love, loss, nights that should never end, and Ferris wheels.
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  • Mobius: No Time Machine Required: Just The EOS C300

    Mobius director Vincent Laforet and crew take you behind the scenes of this ambitious film shot exclusively with the adept EOS C300 under desert conditions.
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  • XXIT: The EOS C300 Proves The Camera Of The Future In XXIT

    XXIT director Director Sam Nicholson ASC reveals how the EOS C300 made the sprawling time epic and how the camera itself presents a “new chapter in cinematography” by crossing expert optics with state-of-the-art technology.

  • Dream and Tar — Behind The Scenes

    The imagePROGRAF large format printer helped to develop sets in Dream & Tar, a film by James Franco.
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  • Kabul, Afghanistan and the Cinema EOS C300

    Documentary filmmaker James Longley uses the Cinema EOS C300 camcorder on a yearlong shoot in Afghanistan, and the results are simply astounding.

  • Behind The Scenes Of The Cinema EOS Camera

    Canon USA tested the new Cinema EOS cameras by giving them to the best and brightest directors to bring their cinematic visions to life.

Interviews

Hear from people who are on the front lines

  • Martin Scorsese on Canon's "Game Changer."

    It's no small compliment for Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese to declare a camera a "game changer."

  • Los Angeles Film Festival Interview: Hoyte van Hoytema

    To bring his latest project to the next level, acclaimed cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema NSC—the visionary behind 2010's The Fighter—called upon the Cinema EOS C300.

  • Los Angeles Film Festival Interview: Breven Angaelica Warren

    Producer Breven Angaelica Warren sits down with us at the Los Angeles Film Festival for a chat about using the Cinema EOS C300 to shoot her recent documentary on film festivals.

  • Los Angeles Film Festival Interview: Doug Chamberlain

    To capture the emotion and intimacy of his latest short film for Virgin Airlines, Departure Date, director Doug Chamberlain called upon the Cinema EOS C300.

  • Los Angeles Film Festival Interview: Lee Hirsch

    Visionary cinematographer Lee Hirsch used the Canon EOS 5D Mark II to bring extraordinary precision and intimacy to his much-lauded documentary, Bully.

News & Events

News

  • June 5, 2013 | BTL News

    Erik Naso Chooses Canon EOS C100

    Director of photography Erik Naso picks EOS C100 to create a series of three promos for NBC 7 San Diego’s news programs, as a former photojournalist he knew that large-format, single-sensor cameras provides the shallow depth of field he needed.

  • May 29, 2013 | Hollywood Reporter

    Saturday Night Live Eyes Canon C500

    Saturday Night Live has been experimenting for future productions with Canon C500 camera with an AJA Ki Pro Quad, which is a tapeless recorder that supports real-time debayering of 4K Canon RAW camera data.

  • May 28, 2013 | Film & Digital Times

    Canon C300 Cameras Win Big At Cannes

    Canon C300 Cameras shot the Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or winner “Blue is the Warmest Color” (La Vie d’Adèle), directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, with cinematographer Sofian El Fani.

  • May 3, 2013 | No Film School

    No Film School's Ryan E. Walters Chooses Canon C100

    CRyan E. Walters believes that Canon’s C100 is one of the most capable camera systems on the market today for creating images.

  • April 25, 2013 | Creative COW

    Canon's EOS Digital Cameras Rank Tops

    Canon USA's EOS line of interchangeable lens digital cameras ranked #1 for the tenth year in a row.

  • April 24, 2013 | Vimeo

    Canon 1D C - West Paqua

    Nick Rains explains how the 1D C allows him to shoot multimedia slideshows using just the one camera.

  • April 24, 2013 | Goverment Video

    Canon Ranks #1

    A recent survey places Canon's line of DSLRs at the top of sales.

  • April 23, 2013 | Creative COW

    Canon's EOS Interchangeable-Lens Digital Camera Remains Number 1 Globally

    Canon’s EOS line of interchangeable-lens maintained the No. 1 share worldwide in terms of volume for a 10-year period from 2003 to 2012!

Events

  • June 12 - 14, 2013 | Orlando, FL

    The InfoComm13 Exhibit

    Collaborate. Communicate. Connect. The InfoComm 13 conference exhibit is specifically designed for professionals in the audiovisual, information communications and systems integration industries, and showcases the latest must-see technologies.

  • June 12 - 14, 2013

    VER To Exhibit At InfoComm 13

    The VER team will be exhibiting at InfoComm, the leading marketplace for audio, display, lighting, rental and staging for the AV Industry, and will feature a live production showcase of side-by-side camera comparisons.

  • June 13 - 23, 2013 | Los Angeles, CA

    The 19th LA Film Festival

    The Los Angeles Film Festival is globally recognized as a cinematic event, showcasing the best in new American and international cinema and provides a platform for the public to mingle with acclaimed filmmakers, film industry professionals and emerging new talent.

  • June 19, 2013 | New York, NY

    The NYC Digital Video 13 Expo East

    The DV Expo East in New York City offers exhibitors, education, networking, and conference content, and is quickly becoming the premier destination for content creation professionals to explore the latest technologies.

  • June 23 - 28, 2013 | Carbondale, IL

    Girls Make Movies Summer Camp 2013

    The Southern Illinois University's Girls Make Movies is a five-day long residential filmmaking summer camp offered to young women by the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts.

  • June 28, 2013 | Salt Lake City, UT

    Canon 1DC and the C500 4K EOS Cinema TV Specialist Workflow Seminar

    Join Cinematographer Michael Ori from Studio Elevn and product specialists from Canon and AJA as they demonstrate 4K workflow and share examples of production showcasing the Canon 1DC and the C500 4K EOS Cinema cameras and lenses.

  • August 7 - 8, 2013 | Austin, TX

    The Texas Association of Broadcasters 60th Annual Convention & Trade Show

    This event features the Canon Cinema EOS cameras and lenses, and is the largest state broadcast meeting in the country, and displays one and a half days of management, engineering and sales programs with a 121-booth trade show with industry vendors.

  • August 29 - September 2, 2013 | Telluride, CO

    Telluride Film Festival

    The Telluride Festival focuses primarily on the discussion and screenings of films, and features a roster of high profile guests.

Canon's Hollywood Love Story

It's an obsession of every visual dreamer in the movie industry: Find the best cameras in the world. Time and again, the innovation and passion of filmmakers is met and propelled by Canon ingenuity.

The Best and Brightest of the 2012 LA Film Festival

From the Tinseltown celebrities who grab all the headlines to the top dogs behind the cameras, 2012's LA Film Festival was a celebration of why we all love the movies.