Straight 8 is a film event that challenges film makers to make a three minute film shot on one super 8 cartridge without any allowance for post editing. The filmmaker has to send their undeveloped roll of film into the competition whereupon the best are shown all over the world, including the Cannes Film Festival. [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] If you’re tapped into a community, creative or otherwise, the laws of nature dictate that either through chance or shear determination certain individuals will become the embodiment of that scene. Mark Escribano found such an incarnation in the Super Noble Brothers who where ubiquitous across the Milwaukee music [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Director Phil Grabsky has been working in the film industry for over 20 years, creating documentary programmes for BBC strands such as Timewatch and Reputations, as well as arts programmes for Channel Five. However, I first came into contact with Phil’s work through his 2003 feature documentary The [...]