Lake Success, NY—Canon USA is supporting the Sundance Institute as a Sustaining Sponsor of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which will be held in Park City, Utah, from January 17–27, 2013. The Sundance Film Festival is a showcase of independent film with a slate of 200 feature films, documentaries, shorts, New Frontier films, installations, performances, panel discussions and music events attended by 50,000 people.
Among the entries at this year’s Sundance Film Festival are Lucy Walker’s documentary The Crash Reel and Sean Fine’s film Life According to Sam, both shot with Canon’s Cinema EOS C300. A few of the other projects to be screened at the festival were also shot using Canon products, including A River Changes Course, Blood Brother, Catnip: Egress to Oblivion, Dirty Wars, The Roper and Who Is Dayani Crystal?
As a Sustaining Sponsor, Canon will offer filmmakers the opportunity to try its lineup of Cinema EOS professional products, including the Cinema EOS C500 4K and Cinema EOS C300 digital cinema cameras, the Cinema EOS C100 digital video camera, the EOS-1D C4K DSLR cinema camera, and the EOS 5D Mark III DSLR, along with select Canon lenses—the new CN-E14mm T3.1 L F and CN-E135mm T2.2 L F lenses.
These products—designed to offer storytellers a new set of tools for capturing visuals and emotional reality on-screen—will be on display from January 17–19, 2013 outside of the film office at festival headquarters, located at the Park City Marriott (1895 Sidewinder Dr.).
Canon will also host the Canon Celebrates Cinematography cocktail event on January 20, 2013 from 6 p.m.–9 p.m. at 614 Main St. Hosted by cinematographer Russell Carpenter, ASC (Jobs) and director/producer R.J. Cutler (The World According to Dick Cheney), the event will bring together established and emerging filmmakers, producers and talent to honor and recognize the work of the cinematographers of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The evening will also feature a special partnership between Variety and Canon to recognize festival cinematographers through the capture of cinematographer portraits to be shared on Variety.com.
In addition, Canon will present a special presentation, Canon Spotlights Cinematography, at the New Frontier Microcinema at The Yard (1251 Kearns Blvd.) on January 21 from 3 p.m.–4:30 p.m. This event is free and open to festival credential holders and the public as space allows. The afternoon will feature a special screening of shorts created with groundbreaking Cinema EOS technology, including: Bart, directed by Richard Landes and cinematography by Peter Simonite, the big-screen premiere of the narrative short shot on the Cinema EOS C100; The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars, directed by Edoardo Ponti and cinematography by Ferran Paredes, a short film based on an original story by Erri De Luca and shot on the Cinema EOS C300; and Man & Beast, directed by Dante Ariola and cinematography by Jeff Cronenweth, a short that was inspired by true event and was filmed in 4K resolution with a Cinema EOS C500. usa.canon.com
