“A passionate and joyful celebration of why we go to the movies, and why so many people dedicate their lives to making them.” - Tribeca Film Festival

Documentarian Chris Kenneally (Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating, MIFF 05) and producer/on-screen interviewer Keanu Reeves assemble an impressive line-up of industry game-changers in this objective - and fascinating - appraisal of the heated, often polemical debate over digital versus film production.

Directors including James Cameron, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Lars Von Trier and Steven Soderbergh and cinematographers such as Dion Beebe, Anthony Dod Mantle and Vilmos Zsigmond weigh into the argument, providing an engrossing overview of the digital revolution and its implications for film as we know it.

From David Lynch admitting he won't work with film anymore to Christopher Nolan noting that there isn't yet a superior, or even an equal, imaging technology to 35mm film, Side by Side is an audience-friendly crash course on the most significant cinema development since the introduction of sound.

“Likely to prove utterly irresistible to geeks of all descriptions.” - Variety

D Chris Kenneally P Justin Szlasa, Keanu Reeves WS Cat&Docs TD DCP/2012