08/22/2026
🎬 WHAT IF YOUR NEXT FILM WAS SHOT ON PANAVISION?
We are thrilled to announce a major new partnership between Chelsea Film Festival × Panavision.
This year, the Grand Prix Winner for Best Picture will receive a $60,000 Panavision camera package to support their next film.
For generations, Panavision has been part of the visual language of cinema, helping filmmakers transform stories into unforgettable images.
Now, we’re putting those tools in the hands of the next generation of storytellers.
One film. One Grand Prix. $60,000 toward the next story.
🏆 Grand Prix — Best Picture
🎥 $60,000 Panavision Camera Package
📍 Chelsea Film Festival
📅 October 14–18, 2026
The next great film could be yours.
🎥 Woody Allen frequently used Panavision cameras and lenses for his classic films, most notably partnering with legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis on the 1979 romantic comedy-drama Manhattan, which utilized Panavision’s anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen format in striking black-and-white.
🎥 Christopher Nolan and Panavision share a long-standing creative partnership centered on high-end analog filmmaking, utilizing custom-modified Panavision 65mm and Sphero 65 lenses paired with IMAX and Panaflex cameras to achieve extreme physical resolution without digital CGI.
💁♀️🎥 Sofia Coppola regularly partners with Panavision and cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd, ASC, AFC to create the soft, textured, and deeply atmospheric look of her films. Their ongoing collaboration relies on Panavision camera packages and specialty glass to shape the distinct emotional tone of her movies.
💁🏽♀️🎥 Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw made history on Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners by becoming the first woman to shoot a feature film in large-format 65mm IMAX, pioneering a mixed visual format utilizing Panavision Ultra Panavision 70 and modified Ultra Panatar anamorphic lenses.
💁🏻♀️🎥 Eva Longoria’s feature directorial debut Flamin’ Hot utilized Panavision optics, specifically Panaspeed lenses and Primo zooms paired with Sony Venice digital cinema cameras, to capture the biographical story of
