Cinematography World

10 stories

Cinematography WorldCinemaBild Studios appoints David Elliott as senior producer to expand MARS Volume’s Flexible LED Volume Solutions Bild Studios, the team behind MARS Volume, one of the UK’s longest-running and largest dedicated virtual production (VP) facilities, has appointed David Elliott as Senior Producer.

11.05

Cinematography WorldCinemaToruńCAMERIMAGE 2026 juries announced The jury line-ups for this year’s ToruńCAMERIMAGE 2026 Festival have been announced. This year, we introduce the distinguished jurors who will evaluate films across all competition sections – except…

11.05

Cinematography WorldCinemaCooke Optics welcomes new CEO Cooke Optics announces that David Hancock has decided to step down from his position as Chief Executive Officer.

11.05

Cinematography WorldCinemaScreenSkills and CIISA collaborate on updated bullying and harassment training ScreenSkills has updated its free Tackling Harassment and Bullying at Work e-learning module, working with the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA) to help screen industry…

11.05

Cinematography WorldCinemaDigital Orchard unites DIT and video playback rosters under Orchard Crew Digital Orchard Group has brought its DIT and Video Playback agency together with the Orchard Crew diary service , uniting its rosters under the Orchard Crew brand to create one of the industry’s…

11.05

Cinematography WorldCinemaForever Young in focus as Göteborg Film Festival celebrates 50 years In a time when youth is the ideal, and aging has become something to halt, hide or hack, Göteborg Film Festival 2027 looks at the dream of eternal youth.

11.05

Cinematography WorldCinemaFilmmakers and cast members to attend ToruńCAMERIMAGE Festival as special guests At the 34th edition of the ToruńCAMERIMAGE International Film Festival, “The Idiots” will be presented, followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers and cast.

11.05

Cinematography WorldCinemaBAFTA reveals the 2026 BAFTA Breakthrough UK cohort BAFTA has announced the 21 ‘must-watch’ creatives working in film, games and television who make up the 2026 BAFTA Breakthrough cohort in the UK, supported by Netflix.

11.04

Cinematography WorldCinemaLuca Guadagnino’s Artificial to open the 34th Edition of ToruńCAMERIMAGE Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, „Artificial”, will open the 34th ToruńCAMERIMAGE International Film Festival.

11.02

Cinematography WorldCinemaZEISS showcases latest cine lenses at ToruńCAMERIMAGE 2026 At the 2026 ToruńCAMERIMAGE Film Festival, ZEISS invites the cinematography community to experience the distinctive visual characteristics of their newest lenses first-hand.

10.30

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo