{"id":428626,"date":"2026-05-15T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428626\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:00:09","slug":"heres-a-short-film-shot-by-sam-kolder-exclusively-on-the-vivo-x300-ultra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428626\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s a short film shot by Sam Kolder exclusively on the vivo X300 Ultra"},"content":{"rendered":"

vivo has collaborated with world-renowned filmmaker Sam Kolder to create a short film that was shot entirely on the company’s latest camera flagship, the X300 Ultra<\/a>. The short film is called The Garden Route, and you can see it in its entirety below.<\/p>\n

The film celebrates South Africa’s natural beauty, and captures “a journey shaped by movement, friendship, and discovery”, according to vivo’s press release. Sam Kolder said: “I thought leaving my cameras behind would make the job harder. It ended up being a liberation. Stripping away the technical barriers let me be fully present with my friends and the raw beauty of this place”.<\/p>\n

\"Here's<\/p>\n

Kolder’s intent in making the film was “not to explain this land, but to inhabit it – transforming fleeting, unscripted moments into a cinematic work that feels less like it was produced, and more like it was lived”. He used both of the telephoto extenders with the X300 Ultra, and they apparently proved to be “a key creative asset”, “delivering background separation and subject isolation that approach what Kolder is used to achieving with his DSLR setups, while maintaining constant quality across focal lengths”.<\/p>\n

The vivo X300 Ultra gave Kolder’s team the color depth and dynamic range suitable for professional color grading workflows, thus enabling complete post-production flexibility. “It’s the first time I’ve felt that a phone manufacturer has actually thought about what professional filmmakers need”, Kolder said.<\/p>\n

vivo X300 Ultra 5G<\/p>\n

vivo says this collaboration “marks a shift in cinematic storytelling, beyond technical innovation”, as the X300 Ultra “puts you back in the moment” by ensuring that technology no longer stands between the creator and the experience.<\/p>\n

If you want to learn more about the vivo X300 Ultra, check out our video review above, or read our in-depth written review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"vivo has collaborated with world-renowned filmmaker Sam Kolder to create a short film that was shot entirely on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-428626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}