KODAK CELEBRATES 29 FEATURES SHOT ON FILM AT CANNES 2023

Kodak Motion Picture and Entertainment celebrated 29 productions shot on film at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Four on-film titles, Asteroid City, Fallen Leaves, La Chimera and The Old Oak, competed for the Palme d’Or, with an additional three titles featured in Un Certain Regard and nine titles across Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week captured on film. 2023 also marks the centennial of 16mm film, and as proof of the format’s continued relevance and popularity, seventeen of the on-film titles at the festival chose 16mm as their capture medium.

Out-of-competition productions Maïwen’s Jean Du Barry, Sam Levinson’s The Idol, Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon and Steve McQueen’s The Occupied City were each captured on Kodak 35mm film.

Canon UK & Ireland and CVP have announced the winning projects for the prestigious Canon Stories In Motion Young Filmmakers Awards. The awards were established to encourage and promote the creative talent of emerging filmmakers – aged from 18 to 25 years old – with the aim of recognising the best short films produced by the most exciting new young talent who have a passion for telling stories and making films.

The competition received a phenomenal number of entries from around the UK and Ireland, which were judged by a selection committee including: Canon ambassador, cinematographer and photographer, Elisa Iannacone; Canon ambassador, cinematographer and filmmaker, Tania Freimuth; CVP’s technical marketing manager, Jake Ratcliffe; and award-winning filmmaker, editor and colourist, Ollie Kenchington. The winners in the documentary, music video and scripted short categories, were:

Documentary: Daniel Simpkins, Farm Life –presented by Elisa Iannacone

Music Video: Luis Hindman, Just Come With Me Tonight – presented by Jake Ratcliffe

Scripted Short: Chas Harrington, Red Room, presented by Ollie Kenchington.

An additional overall grand prize was also given to Daniel Simpkins for Farm Life. The winners received a selection of prizes, including a Canon EOS C70 and RF 24-70 F2.8 L lens, a £500 voucher for CVP, and the experience of shadowing an award-winning filmmaker. All shortlisted projects were awarded a £200 voucher to use at CVP.

“We congratulate all of the motion picture artists whose work was been selected for Cannes 2023,” said Vanessa Bendetti, global managing director of Kodak Motion Picture and Entertainment. “To have so many shot-on-film productions screening and competing at the festival this year is undeniably testimony to the intrinsic value of the film medium. It is Kodak ’s distinct honour to have partnered with these filmmakers to help bring their artistic visions to the screen.”

Shot-on-film productions competing or screening as part of the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2023 between 16 – 27 May included:

Official Competition

• Jeanne du Barry - Maïwen (35mm)

*Opening Film Out of Competition

• Fallen Leaves - Aki Kaurismaki (35mm)

• Asteroid City - Wes Anderson (35mm)

• La Chimera - Alice Rohrwacher (16mm/35mm)

• The Old Oak - Ken Loach (35mm)

Un Certain Regard

• Simple Comme SylvainMonica Chokri (35mm)

• Crowrã (The Buriti Flower) - João Salaviza & Ranée Nader Messora (16mm)

• Only The River Flows - Wei Shun (16mm)

Out of Competition

• The Idol - Same Levinson (35mm)

• Killers Of The Flower MoonMartin Scorsese (35m)

Special Screenings

• Occupied City - Steve McQueen (35mm)

Premieres

• L’amour et les forêts (Love A nd Forests)Valérie Donzelli (16mm)

• Cerrar Los Ojos (Close Your Eyes) -