straight 8 shootout online line-up announced & live premiere details
The one-super-8-cartridge-no-editing film challenge straight 8 invited creative companies worldwide to compete for charity with a new super 8 short film, made entirely in-camera.
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The line-up for this shootout includes: Prettybird, Progress Film Company, Spindle, Ana, Marshall Street Editors, The Network Productions, Groundglass, Adelphoi Music and more.
Each company is making a 2.5 minute short film entirely in-camera on just one cartridge of super 8mm film. Every shot is taken in story order, with no re-takes and no post-production. All visual effects, colouring and titling has to be achieved the old-fashioned way: as part of the shoot, with the camera, as processing is carried out by straight 8 partner Cinelab London. The running order will be determined by random number generator, and no-one - not even the filmmakers - will have seen the films before they premiere.
See the premiere live at FOCUS The Meeting Place for International Production in Islington, London on December 3rd at 09:45 GMT - Attendance at the premiere is free, with delegate registration required at this link. Or watch live online as a simultaneous online stream on straight 8’s site.
Every entrant company was given this creative brief: what do you want to do with 2.5 minutes of screen time to impress your colleagues, competitors and friends who’ll be watching your film when you do (with unimaginably hard technical limitations)?
Immediately after the premiere, the entered companies only will vote for their favourite films - not including their own. As well as earning an iconic camera trophy made by shootout partners, Machine Shop, the winners will choose the charity to which straight 8 will donate the prize pot.
Since launching straight 8 shootout in 2016 with APA London and Cinelab London, its success has been proven at four Cannes premieres, at Ciclope, and Adfest. straight 8 shootout online #1 took place December 2018 and saw entering companies in USA, Canada, Argentina, London, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Tokyo tuning in to see their work online at 2pm GMT, which was 6am PST and 11pm in Tokyo. Many top creative companies from around the world have now risen to straight 8’s shootout challenge. See all of the companies who’ve ever entered and the charities who’ve benefited to date, at straight8.net/shootout
Recent previous straight 8 winners include Iris Worldwide, Rankin Film, Directors Guild Helsinki, Taiyo Kikaku, Final Cut and Rothco, and 19 global charities have received shootout prize donations to date.
Ed Sayers, straight 8 founder, comments: “We’re very happy to be continuing to grow shootout. It only takes 20 brave companies to put their name on the line and get to do what they want: no brief, no budget, technical restraints galore but otherwise pure creative freedom. That freedom is debilitating for some but for everyone else shootout is here. And our existing partners and new ones - we welcome Cheat, No.8 and Panavision - are all helping us make sure it keeps growing and that our unusual challenge is thrown down to ever more varied companies."
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Clara Le, Commercial Director, FOCUS Show Ltd & The Location Guide “We are thrilled to be partnering with straight 8 for the first time. As long-term fans of the shootout, it is a pleasure to host the next world premiere at our December show. The online shootout is another amazing way to showcase creative talents from across the global industry, so what event is more fitting for this premiere than FOCUS, the meeting place for international production?”
Steve Davies, Chief Executive, APA London: “straight 8 is the most fun filmmaking competition for companies. Watching the films with the filmmakers who haven’t seen them either is compelling- they might be great, and often are, but if they aren’t, it's only a couple of minutes and you're on to the next one! The online version is even more exciting as there's no knowing how many people are tuning in.”
Adrian Bull, Managing Director, Cinelab London, comments: “We process hundreds of films each year, from 70mm down to super 8, with recent films including Mission Impossible and Wonder Woman 1984, and yet still one of the most exciting projects we are involved with is straight 8. The sheer creativity that entrants manage to pack into each reel of super 8 film is amazing, and that’s why we support it."
