Should I Go...???

[Alex]

Should I go to the United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival?

They will screen the top 20 films and videos of which my film was one. It's on the other side of the country, but I guess that's what they make credit cards for. (they actually give out $3,000 worth of prize money)

I'd settle for a festival night "report" from someone who lives in the area and is attending the event...


United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival

Location: New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Contact: AG Nigrin, [email protected]

Deadline: January 24 2003

Exhibition date: February 21 2003

United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival
February 21-23, 2003 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Deadline For Receipt of Entries: January 24, 2003 @ Noon

The 15th annual United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival will be held on February 21-23, 2003 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New
Jersey. The Festival encourages any genre (animation, documentary, experimental, fiction, personal, etc.), but the work must have predominantly originated on Super 8mm/8mm film or Digial video or 8mm video formats. All works will be screened by a panel of judges who will award $3000 in prizes. Last year's festival drew large audiences which viewed 26 finalist works out of 150 entries from throughout the United States and Canada over three evenings. The Festival takes as its mandate the spreading if the 8mm and Digital world. Toward that end, the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC has sponsored nine touring programs culled from Super 8 Festival prize winners for the past nine years. The "Selections of the U.S. Super 8 Film/Video Festival Touring Program" has been screened at media art centers, film festivals, and universities including: the 2nd World Festival of Video in Brussels, Belgium; the Visual Studios
Workshop in Rochester, New York; 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle, Washington; Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts; Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York; the Melbourne Super 8 Festival, Australia; Pittsburgh Filmmakers; the Northwest Film & Video Center/Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Cincinnati Film
Society; and many others.

Entry Procedure:
There is a $35.00 non-refundable entry fee for each work submitted. Do not send cash. Make the check or money order payable to the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC. Include with your entry:
the entry fee; a completed entry form; a 1/2" VHS videocassette for pre-screening, a self-addressed stamped postcard for notification of entry receipt; and a self-addressed stamped container
for return of entry. All entries must have originally been shot predominantly on Super 8/8mm film or Digital/Hi 8/8mm video. Video transfers of films are accepted. Do not send originals or
prints with many splices. For films, include your name and title on the outside of the film can as well as on the head and tail leader. For videotapes, include your name and title on both the tape box and the tape itself. Please do not send any entries in fiber-*****d mainling containers. Entries will be returned on or before March 21, 2003. Only finalists are notified in advance that their work is in the final screenings, all other participans will receive complete documentation by March 21, 2003. The Rutgers FIlm Co-op/NJMAC will not be held responsible in the event of
loss or damage to submitted work.

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[Mike Buckles]

Congrats on your film being in the top 20! I'll be rootin for ya! Next stop...Academy Awards????

[4score]

I wanna see yours thats in the top 20. Put a clips out here!

Chris

[HenrySuper8]

congratulations and good luck, maaan [img]smile.gif[/img] !

[Alex]

Thanks all. I was really lucky. One of my video clients has a children's show she produces pretty much by herself for the Los Angeles Cable Channel.

I was motivated to make the film because of one of her songs and my lust to do something in time-lapse.
I feel really good about the project.

I have no video interface on my IMAC (which is one of the original IMAC's). However, I could be talked into sending VHS copies out via regular mail.

[Alex]

You can now see the list of Super-8 films to be shown each night, Feb.21-23...(and a couple of digital ones thrown in for quota purposes-kidding)

http://www.njfilmfest.com/

[Greg Crawford]

Kudo's to you does!




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