Cinema 16 Film Productions

Cinema 16 write, direct and distribute high quality film productions of vintage aircraft, warbirds, ships and industrial facility restoration projects.

Based in Burlington, Ontario, Cinema16 has travelled the world to capture in high definition, the total rebuild of a WW2 Mosquito fighter/bomber; a tribute to “St. Mary’s Challenger”, the last Great Lakes commercial steam ship; the Henry Van Kesteren story, as well as industrial projects for Thordon Bearings.

Shooting in both Super-16 film and XD-Cam HD video, our preference for any production with dramatic content is film. The Oscar-winning production “The Hurt Locker” was shot almost entirely in Super-16 and the quality of this production is a tribute to the beauty and technical appeal of this medium. With 200 hours of raw footage shot, digital would surely have been cheaper. Film has a texture and softness that HD video simply cannot match in spite of its stunning resolution. Film has archiveability beyond anything proven for digital, so for preserving history, we prefer the only medium proven to last for over 100 years.