Cambridge - last call

Don't forget to get your films in for one of the bestest and biggest Super 8 film festvals anywhere on our fair planet - the Cambridge Super 8 Film Festival. Entries are free but must with the guys by 26th December 2009.

Hurry up! Enter now at www.cambridge-super8.org

A Super 8 Fimmaker's Journal

Out now and compiled by Don Diego Ramirez; 'A Super 8 Filmmaker's Journal' offers a comprehensive guide to the micro cinema community providing products and services to small gauge filmmakers. Based on Ramirez' personal experiences, this book will assist any one to become a Super 8 filmmaker in today’s digital age!

Comprising a number of articles from various sources, vintage adverts, photographs and imagery, the journal is a 100 page trip through every aspect of small film making.

Once regular contributor to Super 8 Today, Don Diego Ramirez is an often controversial an outspoken art figure. He is a critically acclaimed Fine Art Photographer, contributing writer award winning Super 8 Filmmaker (Trailer Trash: A Film Journal; Best Documentary, U.S. Super 8 Film Festival 2007) and currently lives in the dark woods of West Virginia.

A Super 8 Filmmaker's Journal, A Guide to Super 8 Filmmaking in the Age of the Internet, ISBN: 1449551491 EAN-139781449551490 and available at Create Space.

Accolade for Pro8mm

The Fall edition of Moviemaker magazine has on page 39 "The I-List", 25 companies every moviemaker needs to know. Listed amongst the great, good and essential is Pro8mm, LA's very own home to Super 8 film stock exotica and cameras.

Well done guys!

László Kovács & Vilmos Zsigmond documentary

Those of you with an eye for the detail and very long memories will remember the interview we did with cinematographer James Chressanthis, ASC a couple of summers ago discussing his love of Super 8mm.

Around that time he was using the format for cut-aways and other details on a major documentary he was shooting chronicling the lives of refugee cinematograpers László Kovács, ASC and Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC and their 50 year filmmaking careers.

The finished film "László Kovács & Vilmos Zsigmond: No Subtitles Necessary" has now been finally been released and tells the remarkable story of two men whose films have touched so many, whilst most don't even know who they are.

Find out more about the film here and reread our interview with James here.

Tim Burton's Super 8mm legacy

If you're in NYC over the holidays (or indeed anytime up to April 26th 2010) make sure you swing by the Museum of Modern Art and catch the Tim Burton retrospective. Amongst the examples of sketchbooks, concept art, drawings, paintings and photographs there are a few examples of his early Super 8mm works.

Read more at Art daily here
or, visit the MOMA mini-site here

Norwood at Cambridge

On Sunday November 8th the Cambridge Super 8 Group played host to renowned Los Angeles-based independent director Norwood Cheek, on his way home from attending the Sheffield Documentary Festival, with Attack Of The Fifty Foot Reels, a showcase of Super 8 work from the Flicker network in the US.

The programme included previously seen films such as Norwood's own 'Cold' and John Cannizzaro's 'Fifty Feet That Changed The World' as well as new and recent work, and an extensive question and answer interview was conducted by Cambridge Super 8 Group chair Thierry Bonnaud.

If you weren'y able to make the event in Cambridge, fear not as you can listen to a special three part podcast below;

Interview 1 (About Norwood's film Cold?)
Interview 2 (About Norwood's film Re:collection)
Interview 3 (About Super 8mm in general)

Dwayne's on the Today Show

Dwayne's, the world famous and last remaining Kodachrome (K40) lab on the planet, gets profiled in this piece on the Today Show;

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/34172096#34172096

[via Filmshooting | com]

New to Spain: Cine Amateur!

Here's one for the diaries - Saturday 20th February 2010, "Mostra Cinemtographica De Petite Format" in cosmopolitan Barcelona - basically an all day symposium on all things small film featuring screenings, filmmaking and music.

Find out more at www.cineamateur.org

Wanted: hip creative types to build straight8

(Not at all like the 'shedquarters')

straight8 need your help - and they need it now!

The elder statesmen of the single cartridge Super 8 film festival are looking for a website designer who shares their small film aesthetic to join them in the inner sanctum of their hip London 'shedquarters' (we went there once - but are sworn to cinematic secrecy) and revamp their online portal.

We don't know if beards are a prerequisite, but you could ask!

More details here - be quick!