Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival 2020 [Online]
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About
The Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival is dedicated to the creation and sharing of amateur super 8 films to foster inclusive dialogue, ensuring a diversity of community voices can define, document, and tell the story of their neighborhood. The film festival began in Georgetown in 2006 as a way to create a shared community event in a neighborhood without a community center, library, or public gathering space. In 2018, GS8 shifted focus to celebrating the Duwamish Valley at large and transitioning past films to an online archive. With the addition of 45 new films from this year, GS8 has helped to create 421 super 8 films to date. This archive will launch on the GS8 website with this year’s screening, and past films will continue to be added.
Participants in the Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival pay for the cost of film and processing or receive a scholarship; attend a crash course in super 8 filmmaking; sign up to check out a GS8 camera, and are assisted in the filmmaking process. This is a festival open to all regardless of experience. Filmmakers are not able to see their film as they shoot it and cannot edit it once the exposed image is returned to them. We hope that you view these films with an appreciation for this process and the unique challenge of making an analog film.
The 2020 Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival faced an additional challenge this year as the last films were sent in for processing just as the coronavirus began to impact our city. Unlike previous years, we are not able to gather to celebrate the work of our filmmakers and be together as a community. Instead, we must find new and creative ways to celebrate this work while staying safely at a distance. It is with much gratitude that I thank everyone who found a way in these uncertain times to finish a film, organize this presentation, judge the films you are about to see and support this project.
GS8 would like to extend special thanks to our fiscal sponsor Mini Mart City Park and our sponsors: The Northwest Film Forum, Nine Pound Hammer, The City of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, and King County 4Culture.
The Georgetown Super 8 Committee:
Director – Wynne Pei
Education and Archives – Laura Wright
Grant Coordinator – Liz Ophoven
Judge Coordinator – Brian W. Edwards Jr.
Documentation – Janet Neuhauser
Social Media – Sara Girard/ RockitWorks
Fundraising – Domenica Lovaglia
Filmmaker Outreach – Ahmad White
General Assistance – Clint Berquist
Program:
~ REEL 1 – A Tidal River Has ~
River's Gift
by Nolan Gonzalez and Ashleen O'Brien
HOLD FAST
by Chris Pfeifle
Hard Edges, Soft Ground
by m.o.i. aka The Minister of Information
~ REEL 2 – Banks with Stories ~
The Adventures of Oak and Humbug
by Christopher Kimbrough & Elahe Zare
Where the Cats Play
by Davis Creative Productions
The Ghosts of GT
by Hazel, Lucy & Emma
No Fly Zone
by Trinh Duong & Rob Jellinek
Flyght Path (or The Girl is Fly)
by Tracy Thompson
Headstones
by Jesse Moore and Patty Foley
~ REEL 3 – People Who Live There ~
The Busker
by Peter Reiquam
A search for community
by Paul Dewald
In Search of the Perfect Beer
by John Krull & Yukari Romano
Bike Man
by Jessica Foss
Flower People
by Nemo Campisi
Chasing Terrence
by Terrence Wynder, Kevin Drury, Kris Brown, and Ernest Argyros
~ REEL 4 – And Places it Shapes ~
A Glimpse of the Connections Museum
by Neil Rhoades & Alyson Stoner-Rhoades
Observation of Place
by Alexis Wood
Innocent Chaos
by Alexis Wood
West Nebraska
by Just John
ENDEMIC
by Kevin Coulton
our usual table
by la dele sines and allan phillips
~ INTERMISSION (15 min) ~
~ REEL 5 – It’s Been a Long Hard Spring ~
Frances Doesn’t Care for the Blues
by William Brandt
Public Grief
by Ali Rowenna
Purveyor of Lost Dreams
by Mackenzi Wakley
Special Olympics Basketball
by Cedar Bushue
Leap Year MMXX
by Angelina Tolentino
Sun's there, you're just not high enough
by Madison Holup
~ REEL 6 – But There is Still Love ~
In the Air
by Ann Sammon
letters to [and from] Pablo
by Rana San
Surprise in the Freezer
by Corrie Greening
The Best Day of My Life
by Jason Austin
The Great Paralysis
by Stephen Leonard Samelko
~ REEL 7 – And We Have Each Other ¯_(?)_/¯ ~
The Big Con
by Augie Pagan
Figure Man
by Anthony Thambynayagam
Return of Robot
by Grant Crawford
Death of a Libation
by Amee Shepard
Block Party
by Clint Berquist
~ REEL 8 – And the Crazy Things We Do ~
Bus Sweat
by Craig Downing
Perros Manos (dog hands)
by Zack Lindsey + Keturah Walker
In Plastic
THE 1979 BIZARRE
River City Racers
by Sean B.
Sparks
by Michael Campos, Lauren Harris, Jordan Maples and Ryan Rohrer
A Hard Day's Day
by Adam Walker and Charlotte Blythe