After analyzing the cameras behind the Academy Awards and Sundance, now it’s the time dive a bit into Cannes Film Festival. The ALEXA Mini was crowned as the dominant camera at The Oscar and Sundance. What about Cannes? Do we expect to see some different results? Explore below.
Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival, founded in 1946, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world. This film festival is recognized as one of Oscar’s short films qualifying festival list, which means that if your film is being selected then it’s qualified to the Academy Award selection process. Go here to read more about Oscar’s qualified film festivals and the pathway to get there.
Note: The statistics in this article are based on IndieWire’s Cannes Cinematography Survey. Read their article to get more info regarding the selected films lenses and recording formats.
Cameras tendency: ALEXA, RED and many others
With the broad diversity of films, we can notice an extreme variety in the cameras being used. However, the ALEXA Mini was dominant significantly above all cameras. See articles about Sundance and The Academy Awards. The question remains, what about Cannes? Let’s find out.
Cannes shows even more diversity regarding cameras. Furthermore, there is much more presence of RED cameras than other festivals. However, we can notice a clear tendency.
Explore above the general statistics based on the selected film of Cannes 2019, and below the Cannes 2019 Movies/ Cameras chart. Click on the image to get a larger view:
What do you think about those insights? Why is the ALEXA Mini so popular? Let’s know your thoughts in the comments section below!
I would like to know the titles of the films and what cameras they used. It would be really interesting to know which productions used the Sony a7sii, which is the cheaper one, how to get this information?
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[…] Cannes Film Festival, founded in 1946, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world. This film festival is recognized as one of Oscar’s short films qualifying festival list and constitutes a significant event for filmmakers and storytellers. Cannes is recognized as one of the industry’s most famous and influential film festival. As an act of solidarity, the festival’s management team has decided to postpone the event to the end of June-beginning of July 2020 (not final date). Read Cannes Film Festival statement below: […]