Awards Contenders, First Features, Hit Television and Super Bowl commercials

FILM COLLECTION

New Releases

As we start to enter the home stretch of awards season, we’ve been filling up our library with some of 2025’s biggest hits (as well as some of the first titles of 2026).

Check out shots from: Marty Supreme, Hamnet, Nouvelle Vague, The Rip, The Mastermind, Song Sung Blue, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, Predator: Badlands, The Woman in the Yard, and A Minecraft Movie, and add them to your decks.

TELEVISION SERIES

The Last Dance

This month, we added thousands of shots to our library from acclaimed sports documentary television series The Last Dance (2020), which follows Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the 1997-8 NBA season as they go for their sixth title together, while also telling the story of how they came to be one of the most impactful teams in the history of all sports. The series was directed by Mike Tollin and won the Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series.

Since The Last Dance was told through a combination of archival footage and present-day interviews with the team’s key protagonists, series editors Chad Beck, Devin Concannon, Abhay Sofsky and Ben Sozanski had to work with Tollin to craft an episodic story largely from piecing together storylines from their archival material with moments that stood out from the interviews. While Tollin began the project with an outline in mind, it was the project of the editing team to construct the narrative out of it. Beck told ProVideo Coalition that “A lot of it was unscripted so a lot of it was just us churning through interview footage and beginning to put stuff together. Obviously the interviews are driven by Jason’s ideas of what to ask and what to go after, but those become apparent when you’re editing and you organically start putting the story together based on what you have and what’s most emotional and what fits together best.”, while Concannon added that “Before I started, the producers and Jason had sort of laid out a very rough vision of what stories could fit into certain episodes. So we at least knew that those were the story points that are out there, and a lot of times the editors would work with the producers and directors and rearrange those cards and say, “Hey, there’s a link between this and this.”

TELEVISION SERIES

Heated Rivalry

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we dropped thousands of shots from the smash-hit romantic television series, Heated Rivalry. Based on the novel Game Changers by Rachel Reid, the Canadian series created by Jacob Tierney has become one of the most highly watched seasons of television in recent years, launching the careers of lead actors Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, and becoming production company Crave’s most watched show to date. 

Cinematographer Jackson Parrell shot all six episodes of Heated Rivalry, and said that the look of the show “really came out of my love of maximalist lighting and colour, paired with a constant desire for naturalism… I wanted the show to feel full-fat, rich, contrasty, and cinematic, but still relatable – something that could defy expectations around what on-screen adaptations of these stories usually look like.” Parrell shot the series on the Arri Alexa 35 using Panavision T-series anamorphic lenses, which allowed him to create a classic filmic look for the image but with a level of reliability and practicality that the show’s tight budget and schedule demanded. With limited resources, the visual language of the show was also simplified for Parrell and Tierney, with scenes often having limited camera set-ups and lighting schema that ultimately created a level of intimacy that allowed audiences to connect with the love story unfolding on screen.

FILM COLLECTION

Music Videos & Commercials: Super Bowl Edition

To celebrate this year’s Super Bowl, we programmed a special edition of our music videos and commercials focussed on some of our favorite commercials from the big game! Check out commercials for soda brands, website builders, cars and insurance companies, as well as a fresh crop of music videos from pop, rock and soul stars alike. Dive in!