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See the best super 8 shorts on La Croisette
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How good they might be, literally no-one knows... Be there on Friday June 23rd 10am for the official shots party hangover breakfast, in time for an 11am screening.
See the only work in Cannes that’s never been seen - even by the people who made it! Everyone is welcome at straight 8’s global super 8mm filmmaking showdown for companies: ‘straight 8 shootout’. And no festival pass is required. “The most memorable event at Cannes”
The APA and Cinelab Film + Digital present ‘straight 8 shootout 2023’.
Cinema Les Arcades, 77 Rue Felix Faure, Cannes on Friday June 23rd.
Not for the faint-hearted, please be warned this is a raw and raucous event with an amazing line-up of companies competing, having made a short film, editing 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.
- 10-10:45 am - Petit Déjeuner en pleine air - sponsored by shots.
- 10.45am - Doors open.
- 11am - Rolls the films!
- 12:45pm We’re wrapped - after voting and award ceremony in the cinema.
Tickets in advance essential. Get a load here.
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 29th, followed by nearby after party. Buy tickets here.
With additional support from: No 8 London, Warner Chappell Production Music, LS Productions, shots, The Machine Shop.
The companies brave enough to put their name to this challenging challenge?
- 72 & SUNNY AMSTERDAM
- BIRTH
- BISCUIT FILMWORKS
- CANAL 180
- CURLY FILMS
- IRIS WORLDWIDE
- MR+POSITIVE
- ODELAY FILMS
- PARTIZAN
- SMILE
- VCCP
- YOLAFILMO
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’.
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