Super 8 week = straight 8 + Channel 4 + podcast

Kate Vogel, commissioning editor of Channel 4's '3 minute wonder' TV programme (UK), has selected four of this year's straight 8 entries to screen in the prime time slot of 7.55pm as part of the build up to straight 8's Cannes Film Festival screenings next Thursday night (22nd May).

onsuper8.org is thrilled to announce that each evening next week, immediately after the films have screened on Channel 4, we will be making these Super 8mm, single cartridge shorts available via our podcast - allowing viewers the world over to see this unique selection of some of the best of this year's straight 8 crop.

The running order is;

Mon 19 May: ‘Springlove’ – set in Amsterdam, using an amazing ‘stop-motion’ technique, two people hover as they meet for a date.
Director: Herrjaapmans

Tue 20 May: ‘Looking for Marilyn’ – an intimate black and white portrait of a Marilyn Monroe look-a-like, but when the whole neighbourhood dresses up as Marilyn the paparazzi get out of hand.
Directors: Anna Blandford and Anna Valdez Hanks

Wed 21 May: ‘The Last Trip’ – a charming tale of the wannabe first Welshman in space and how the village work together on a home-made space programme to take his ashes up to space.
Director: Malcolm Finlay

Thu 22 May: ‘A Piece of Heaven’ – a strange eyeglass arrives in a Mexican village giving people a troubling snapshot of heaven in this dark, epic tale.
Directors: Felix Alejandro Barbosa Vazquez y Yuri Misael Barbosa Vazquez

We're hugely grateful to all the filmmakers, straight 8 and Channel 4 for making this unique Super 8mm / TV / podcast tie up happen, and we hope you'll swing by each night next week and watch these fantastic films.

Bookmark this link to gain access to each film as they're added right through the week.

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