CHICAGO 8: Small Gauge Film Festival

Now Accepting Entries!

The Third Annual CHICAGO 8: Small Gauge Film Festival

OCTOBER 18-20th 2013 @ The Nightingale

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival focuses on providing an opportunity to exhibit a wide selection of Super 8 experimental films from around the world created by new, emerging, and professional filmmakers.

In our first two years we’ve shown over 120 films by 85 filmmakers from the US, Canada, Argentina, Taiwan, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and, The Netherlands.

Please send your completed submission form by email to: info@chicago8fest.org

Send your preview DVD’s to:

Chicago8fest

1315 N. Greenview Ave #1R

Chicago, IL 60642

Please label your DVD with your name, film titles, and email address.

OR You may submit via online by sending us a link to view your films, along with your completed submission form to info@chicago8fest.org

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY: SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2013

There is no entry fee. Work from any year will be considered. Preview DVD’s will not be returned. Final exhibition must be on film. Final exhibition formats accepted: Super 8mm, Single 8, and small gauge blown up to 16mm.

Notifications: Filmmakers will be notified by October 1^st.

Shipping: If selected, please have your film print/original set to arrive no later than October 10th, 2013. Shipment to the Chicago8fest is the responsibility of the filmmaker. We will pay for return shipment only.

Any questions can be directed to info@chicago8fest.org

Submission Form:

Chicago 8: Small Gauge Film Festival October 18-20th 2013

Film title:_____________________________________________

Running time:________________________________________

Date Completed:_____________________________________

Country:_____________________________________________

Your Name:__________________________________________

Address:_____________________________________________

City, State, Zip:_______________________________________

Country:_____________________________________________

Telephone:__________________________________________

Email:_______________________________________________

Website:_____________________________________________

Exhibition format: ______Super/Single 8mm ______S8 blown up to 16mm

Frames Per Second: ______18FPS _____24FPS

_____Sound

_____Silent

Please list any technical specifications, requests, etc:

_________________________________________________________

Please send us a film synopsis of 50 words or less.

Although we will handle your film with the upmost of care Chicago 8 fest, or anyone associated with this festival is not liable for any loss or damage to your film or materials during shipment or during exhibition. Our goal is to project small gauge with the upmost of care and quality that this vital medium deserves.

Chicago8fest.org

Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Sunday, February 24, 2013, 7:30 pm, [members: $5 / non-members: $10]

Presented by SF Cinematheque with Paul Clipson, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Ross Meckfessel and Chicago 8 co-founder Karen Johannesen In Person.

Founded in 2011, the annual Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival is dedicated to encouraging and supporting filmmakers working the 8mm and Super-8mm formats through the exhibition of contemporary and historical works created in these humble yet inspiring gauges. Tonight Chicago 8 co-founder Karen Johannesen appears in person to present a selection from the fest’s first two years including: Mie Kurihara’s Small Poetry and Sheri Wills’ Fever, each ethereal and poignant meditations on light and shadow; Jason Halprin’s I Colonize The Golden Triangle, a travelogue documenting the maker’s travels through Northern India; Pablo Marin’s Diario Colorado, a fluid, masterful, multiple exposure study; Ross Meckfessel’s He, She, I Was, a series autobiographical fragments of friends’ lives; and Tara Nelson’s, Flying Fish, a home movie which brings us into the intimate living space of the filmmaker’s sister. Also screening: Paul Clipson’s Another Void; Clint Enns’ Sears Catalogue 2011/broadcast/a single tear; Sam Hoolihan’s Summer Elsewhere; Saul Levine’s Light Licks: By The Waters of Babylon: I Want To Paint It Black; Janis Crystal Lipzin’s De Luce; Gordon Nelson’s Feather; Pablo Valencia’s Blindside II; Naren Wilks’ Collide-o-scope; Tony Wu’s More Intimacy and Stephanie Wuertz’ Luilekkerland. (Steve Polta & Karen Johannesen) atasite.org

SMALL POETRY: Recent Highlights of the Chicago 8 Film Festival

Echo Park Film Center

Saturday, March 2, 2013

8:00pm in PST

Pablo Valencia and Chicago 8 co-founder Karen Johannesen In Person

Founded in 2011, the annual Chicago 8 Small Gauge Film Festival is dedicated to encouraging and supporting filmmakers working the 8mm and Super-8mm formats through the exhibition of contemporary and historical works created in these humble yet inspiring gauges. Tonight Chicago 8 co-founder Karen Johannesen appears in person to present a selection from the fest’s first two years including: Mie Kurihara’s Small Poetry and Sheri Wills’ Fever, each ethereal and poignant meditations on light and shadow; Jason Halprin’s I Colonize The Golden Triangle, a travelogue documenting the maker’s travels through Northern India; Pablo Marin’s Diario Colorado, a fluid, masterful, multiple exposure study; Ross Meckfessel’s He, She, I Was, a series autobiographical fragments of friends’ lives; and Tara Nelson’s, Flying Fish, a home movie which brings us into the intimate living space of the filmmaker. Also screening: Paul Clipson’s Another Void; Clint Enns’ Sears Catalogue 2011/broadcast/a single tear; Sam Hoolihan’s Summer Elsewhere; Saul Levine’s Light Licks: By The Waters of Babylon: I Want To Paint It Black; Janis Crystal Lipzin’s De Luce; Gordon Nelson’s Feather; Pablo Valencia’s Blindside II; Naren Wilks’ Collide-o-scope; Tony Wu’s More Intimacy and Stephanie Wuertz’ Luilekkerland.

image: Sheri Will’s Fever