straight 8 2018
our global open competition where we ask anyone anywhere to make a 3'20" film on one cartridge of super 8
over 100 films were made for straight 8 2018. people all over the world took our challenge to make a film about anything on just one cartridge of super 8mm film, editing only in camera. they sent us their exposed cartridges for developing at cinelab london. they sent us their original soundtracks which they'd made 'blind'. and they waited
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the best 8 were selected by our wonderful jury and were screened at our straight 8 2018 premiere at the cannes film festival in may. a further 20 were selected for our london premiere, together with the cannes 8, held in NFT1 at BFI Southbank on august 4 2018
// big thanks to old blue last beer for oiling the wheels of the apres screening in london. boy were people thirsty and we still didn't run out. so those golden cans of beer were a real treat. merci mille fois //
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the straight 8 2018 cannes film festival selection
8 films hit the screen for the first time ever at cannes film festival - 8.30pm - may 14th - cinema olympia, cannes
alone, my friend - jason bradbury (london, uk. filmed in dubai, uae)
dear frankie - megan marie connolly, claudia krogmeier & nate gilbert (chicago, usa)
flicker and fade - the kommandants (darwin, australia. filmed in cambodia)
in love - candice rose (los angeles, usa)
monolith - gabriel bullen (doha, qatar)
satan’s bite: or the foolishness of the witchfinder thomas eastchurch - dean puckett (london, uk)
what a drag - jake kuhn (atlanta, usa)
winter of my life - roger & remy batteault (beaune, france)
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congratulations to these 8 films and their makers. we don't do outright winners. these 8 are the creme de la cannes of straight 8 2018
straight 8's ed sayers, and becca wolff, producer of the straight 8 2018 cannes selected 'satan's bite', chatted with robert elms on bbc radio london, about making a film in one of the hardest ways on earth, just prior to the london premiere - have a listen...
the straight 8 2018 london selection
global premiere in london - bfi southbank nft1 - august 4th 2018
the 8 straight 8's selected for our cannes film festival premiere screened again at the london premiere with these 20 great films ..
congrats to everyone...
bbb - the beast, the beauty, the beast - michel a. chappuis
ctrl-z - annette schneider, andré wlodarski, matthias kasparick, robert neumann, marc holtbecker
film stars don’t do super 8 - john dodds
fisherman’s end - grace garwood
heliotrope - michael krieger
if… - mario martinez coboz
no vacancy - don't shoot films
roundabout - mazlaya carolena papanoodokolic
sarah - joeri de jongh
senior moments - paul saunders
sleep - christopher egw thom
song without words - jonathan eve
stumbling up - devin goundry
super 80 - jeneffa soldatic
swings & roundabouts - alex sultoon
telepathic exchanges - jeff zorilla
the journey inward - eliaz rodriguez
the last last supper - louis bhose
this is not who i am - alisyn ghivizzani
vanishes - rebecca louise tiernan
there was an incredibly high standard this year and some very good films have been made that have not made these selections. thanks to every single person who got behind everything needed for every single frame of all the films made this year. without your bravery and efforts and imaginations and action these pages and more screens would be black
straight 8 is open to anyone anywhere. we don't even mention diversity. never have. never needed to. oops - just did
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see you in cannes, london or somewhere else soon - that'd be gr8
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