1st straight 8 app challenge is live now

london short film festival 2014 straight 8 app challenge
it's on!
NOW for one week only
your chance to screen sunday 19th jan at london short film festival in the gorgeous ICA cinema
just make a film in the next week on the new free straight 8 app
you DON'T have to be in london to do this people!!
all rules/details here: http://straight8app.com/enter/
free entry
good luck!!
straight 8

try our new app / bust our bugs

TEST OUR FORTHCOMING APP... BUST OUR BUGS
have an iphone 4s or iphone5?
curious?
then be sure to read this one carefully...

hi

how are you?!?

if you read our last newsletter - some time ago sorry - you'll know we said the annual comp may take a fallow year in 2013

then we didn't clarify as we went into a holding pattern waiting for some things to materialise that would have seen us offer the competition with a twist for 2013... sorry again!

the fallow year was so that we can work on some exciting new developments

one of which is an app

THE STRAIGHT 8 APP

it's going to be a digital alternative to straight 8 applying the straight 8 ethos to making an in-camera film on your iphone

RIGHT NOW we are looking for 40 people anywhere in the world to give the beta build of the app a real bashing... in the coming days

you'd need an iphone 4s or iphone5 and some time over the next few days to use the app so that your device can send us data about how the app is performing

this will help us kill final bugs

the films won't go public, this time it is all about quantity not quality!!  since the more it's used the more we will learn

there will be some small, fun incentives - details to follow

so please let us know asap if you'd be up for it by clicking here

it's first come first served so don't delay

(we reserve the right to select the team and total confidentiality will be expected of course)

hoping to hear from you

straight 8

big news from shed-quarters

big news:  /  THE FILM  /  THE APP  /  THE 2013 COMP  /

hi

how are you?

here's a little update from shed-quarters

we have been quiet but we've been busy with two major new developments which we're still working on...


THE FEATURE FILM

we are attempting to make the first straight 8 feature film, working with an adaptation of a known story of 30 chapters with 30 x brilliant past straight8ers (not all selected yet) taking a cartridge each to make a feature length film together.  we'll need some luck and a following wind but we reckon we can do it

the idea is for the feature film to become an annual or bi-annual event, each time selecting directors from the growing pool of past straight8ers succeeding in the comp

what do you think?


THE STRAIGHT 8 APP

it's not an app to make your iphone shoot like a super 8 camera.  we've all got them, right?  and they're gr8 - but not as good as shooting on the real thing :)

no...

this is going to be a digital alternative to straight 8.  (note: we didn't say 'replacement' there)

the idea is to take the ethos/rules of straight 8 and apply them, or some of them, to the 'everyman' cameras of today, with some twists and developments (no pun intended)

it'll be free to download and use with some paid for optional extras.  initially it's for making films at will and seeing / sharing them when you like.  then some time after launch we want to release a competition version - and then things will get really interesting!

check it all out in detail in our kickstarter campaign:  http://smarturl.it/straight8KS

we need help to finish the app in stunning form ready for launch - so please help us spread the word


THE 2013 COMP

so you might be wondering what's happening to straight 8 2013 - when's it opening, IS it opening?

there's a possibility that 2013 may be a 'fallow year' for the annual straight 8 competition.  we just completed 10 consecutive years of premiering at cannes and it all started in 1999.  glastonbury gives the land and area around it a fallow year one in five, a quick wikipedia search tells us the old testament says to give a fallow year every seven years.  so being straight 8, ours should be given every 8 years

nothing is confirmed but we won't be announcing, either way, before the end of the year

good to know if you don't already, that until recent years, we'd only open for entry in january / february anyway.  we then brought it earlier and earlier to allow people to use the summer

and the original straight 8 allowed just 4 weeks - there was no chance to procrastinate, you were in or you were out

we're not ruling out something like this for 2013 and we really want to hear your views.  and your news

so please drop us a line

very best

straight 8
xx

straight 8 2012 big london screening

straight 8 2012 london screenings at the ica announced
double bill on july 18
see http://straight8events.blogspot.co.uk/

straight 8 at cannes lions fringe

PLEASE NOTE THE SCREENING WILL NOW START AT 11.45am

PLEASE BE THERE BY 11.30am TO GET IN AND TO THE CINEMA SEATS IN TIME - THANKS!

TICKETS IN ADVANCE FROM THE LINK BELOW OR IF NECESSARY CORRECT CASH ONLY ON THE DOOR: £8 OR €8 (proceeds to Leuka/Fireflies)

straight 8 / Rushes Cannes Fringe Screening! in association with Cap Gun Collective
22 amazing films
each shot on a single cartridge of super 8 film
never seen before!* even by the filmmakers!
selected from over 100 entries to straight 8 2012

friday 22nd june 2012
11.30am doors. 11.45am sharp screening (not noon as previously advertised)
the star cinema
98 rue d’antibes
cannes
tickets are 8 euros only from:
http://straight8.ticketbud.com/lions2012


proceeds in aid of The Fireflies Leuka fund
www.straight8.net
www.thefirefliestour.com
www.leuka.org.uk

facebook event here . - join and invite your friends

films listing is below...

this event is happening with massive thanks to and support from:
Rushes & co and from Cap Gun Collective

***nb: DO NOT CONFUSE WITH THE 3 EVENTS WE HELD AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL IN MAY*** (MANY PEOPLE HAVE... THERE IS NO PARTY ON SAT 23RD JUNE!)

* apart from four seen at cannes film festival may 2012.

we are screening (in alphabetical order)...

* * * - klara arten
a rough guide to time travel - ian rough
beer goggles - shazzy & sooz
biskremosis - mark holtbecker, robert neumann, annette schneider, caro stoeckermann, andre wlodrski
breakdown - mark wong
chemistry - naked zebra
curiousciousness - helen nias
hell's kitchen - joel green & miranda howard-williams
knotted - nick carew
l'adaptation (the adjustment) - nathan small & luke tredget
love triangle - lucy izzard & mark simon hewis
marceau - james henry
misty's horror movie - benjamin scrimgeour
slow dance - nicola baldini
speak & spell in st leonards - bohemia club collective
strange attraction - elizabeth lively
untethered - richard jung
we're different - peter mallett
what a party - michael carstens
what you doing? - damo cross
waste - francis martineau
yesss! - megan hill

straight 8 at cannes - year 10!

our tenth year at cannes film festival already! here's the lowdown for straight 8 2012 at cannes 7-9pm, monday 21st may - crème de la cannes premiere  at the uk film centre.  screening only the best entries of this year's crop massive thanks to: kodak, rushes, the salt company, british council and uk film centre 6-8pm , wednesday 23rd may - straight 8 premiere take 2 at the american pavilion.  a reprise of the premiere shown at the uk film centre on monday 21st 9-12pm, wednesday 23rd may - straight 8 year 10 celebration drinks  at the stella artois cannes cinema club - strictly by invitation only, email us for details massive thanks to stella artois

straight 8 2012: final call for entries

last chance to enter @straight8 2012

enter by 4pm tomorrow, shoot over the weekend, see your film at cannes film fest

http://www.straight8entry2012.blogspot.com/

even if you live outside of the UK you can still enter using your own cartridge - email us for details