The APA and Cinelab Film + Digital present ‘straight 8 shootout 2024’ with additional support from SHOTS, Warner Chappell Production Music, and MACHINESHOP.
Everyone is welcome at this unusually upbeat event where an amazing line-up of companies are competing, having made a short film, edited entirely in-camera, on just one roll of super 8 film! Every film will be shown - no matter how, or even if, it came out. A live vote in the auditorium and trophy ceremony will be the climax of the show - not to be missed if you’re in Cannes!
The line-up:
AFFECT SOUND // AGILE STUDIO // HUMANT LIFE // KAUS // IMAGINE THIS // IRIS // MAD COW FILMS // MR+POSITIVE // NOT JUST ANY // ODELAY FILMS // OUTSIDER // PRESENCE // RSA // SQUIRE STUDIO // THE&PARTNERSHIP // VCCP
The main event:
For Londoners not going to Cannes there’s an opportunity to see the event re-run at The Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square at 6pm on Thursday June 27th, followed by nearby after party. Buy London tickets here.
Partners:
straight 8 shootout is supported by APA, Cinelab Film+Digital, Warner Chappell Production Music, SHOTS and MACHINESHOP
Any kind of creative company is invited to take the straight 8 shootout challenge: to make a 2.5 minute short film created entirely in-camera on just one cartridge of super 8mm film. Every shot is taken in story order, with no opportunity for re-takes or editing. Any visual effects, colouring and titling must be done the old-fashioned way: as part of the shoot, with the camera. Super 8 doesn’t record sound, so soundtracks are made ‘blind’ and must be original. Entrants send their exposed but un-developed film cartridges to straight 8 partners Cinelab Film & Digital who will process and scan the films. straight 8 will then line up each soundtrack with the first frame of the film. It’s that ‘simple’.
Find out more information here.