Enter your company into The Analogue Filmmaking Showdown Straight 8 Shootout 2026

Make a 2.5 minute film on 2.5 minutes of Super 8mm film - see it

on screen in Cinema Les Arcades, Cannes, and Prince Charles

Cinema, London

Cinelab Film & Digital present ‘straight 8 shootout 2026’ with additional

support from APA, SHOTS, KODAK and MACHINESHOP.

Make a 2.5 minute short film on just one cartridge of Super 8mm cine film.

Open brief. Send your exposed unprocessed film to Cinelab Film & Digital in

London, and upload your soundtrack - made ‘blind’. See your work for the very

first time at the film’s public premiere in Cannes, and then London.

Enter asap before all places are gone only at www.straight8.net/shootout

Shoot and deliver to the lab in London by 29th May.

See your film in Cannes morning of Friday June 26th, and London Tues 30th

June, evening.

Join in and compete with these companies who’ve already confirmed their

places: BORN SOCIAL /// DEPT AGENCY /// DROOL /// HEREFORD COLLEGE OF

ARTS /// MR+POSITIVE /// NEVERLAND /// NEW-LAND /// PULSE FILMS /// SIREN

MUSIC /// TAROT /// VCCP Girl & Bear

They’ve shown the courage of their convictions and creativity - now it’s your turn.

Straight 8 is not for the faint of heart. Has your team got what it takes to

gather around this challenge and make a piece of cinema together that will be

judged live by an industry audience?

World Premiere and awards presentation. Cannes Friday June 26th 2025 -11:00am-12:45pm + alfresco breakfast 10am sponsored by SHOTS.

Cinema les Arcades, 77 Rue Felix Faure, Cannes

UK Premiere. London Tuesday June 30th 2025 - 6pm + nearby after-party

Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, London

Any kind of creative company is invited to take the straight 8 shootout

challenge: to make a 2.5 minute short film created entirely in-camera on just

one cartridge of super 8mm film. Every shot is taken in story order, with no

opportunity for re-takes or editing. Any visual effects, colouring and titling must

be done the old-fashioned way: as part of the shoot, with the camera.

Super 8 doesn’t record sound, so soundtracks are made ‘blind’ and must be original.

Entrants send their exposed but un-developed film cartridges to straight 8

partners Cinelab Film & Digital who will process and scan the films. straight 8

will then line up each soundtrack with the first frame of the film. It’s that ‘simple’

.

More info at straight8.net/shootout