Grid/Lock by A.G. Nigrin copyright 2010
The
Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center + the Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies present the
2011 UNITED STATES SUPER 8mm FILM & DIGITAL VIDEO FESTIVAL
February 18-20, 2011 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Deadline for receipt of entries is: January 14, 2011 by 5 PM EST (Unless you apply via WithoutaBox)!
Grid/Lock by A.G. Nigrin copyright 2010
The 23rd Annual United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival will be held February 18-20, 2011 at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Festival encourages any genre (animation, documentary, experimental, fiction, personal, etc.), but the work must have predominantly originated on Super 8mm/8mm film or Digital video or 8mm video formats. All works will be screened by a panel of judges who will award over $4000 in prizes. Last year's festival audiences viewed 23 finalist works out of 160 entries from throughout the world over three evenings. The Festival takes as its mandate the spreading of the 8mm and Digital word. For more information go to www.njfilmfest.com or call us at 732-932-8482!
Entry Procedure
There is a $45.00 non-refundable entry fee for each work under 50 min. and $75 for works over 50 min. submitted. Do not send cash. Make the check or money order payable to the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC. Include with your entry: the entry fee; a completed entry form; a DVD or 1/2" VHS videocassettes for pre-screening, a self-addressed stamped postcard for notification of entry receipt; and a self-addressed stamped container for return of entry if desired. All entries must have originally been shot predominantly on Super 8/8mm film or Digital/Hi 8/8mm video. Digital works include HD, miniDV, DigiBeta, etc. Video transfers of films are accepted. Do not send originals or prints with many splices. For films, include your name and title on the outside of the film can as well as on the head and tail leader. For videotapes/dvds, include your name and title on both the tape/dvd box and the tape/dvd itself. Please do not send any entries in fiber-filled mailing containers. Entries that we receive that have been damaged or otherwise compromised in this way may be rejected from entry. If a work is selected for public screening entrants are contractually obligated to provide an exhibition copy suitable for screening. Please note we do not pay screening fees. Only finalists are notified in advance that their work is in the public screenings. If a work is selected for screening entrants are contractually obligated to provide an exhibition copy suitable for screening. Submission of an entry gives the festival permission to have accepted work exhibited, photographed, locally telecast, and reproduced either in part or whole, for educational or publicity purposes. The Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC will not be held responsible in the event of loss or damage to submitted work.
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Film: 16mm Super 8 8mm Sound Silent Color B+W 18 fps 24 fps
Video: 3/4"* 1/2"VHS* Digital 8* Digital Video* Hi8mm* 8mm* DVD (region 1 or 0 only)
Sound Silent Color B+W [*=ntsc only; Digital works include HD, miniDV, DigiBeta, etc.]
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$45.00 non-refundable entry fee for each work under 50 min. and $75 for works over 50 min. (Made out to a US Bank if foreign entry) ____________ Entry Fee enclosed
Do not send cash. Make check or money order payable to the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC.
Please read and sign to the following statement :
Signature to this agreement regarding entry regulations, requirements, and reproduction (as noted in document above) is required for eligibility for consideration for the festival.
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Mail Entries To:
United States Super 8 Film+Digital Video Festival, Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC
72 Lipman Drive (018 Loree Hall -Douglass Campus), Program In Cinema Studies
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1414 USA
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The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center and the Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies present the 22nd Annual
2010 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival
Grand Prize Winners
Best Documentary=$400 Gorilla Software from and sponsored by Jungle Software
Free Land - Minda Martin (San Diego, California)
Best Short Documentary=$400 of Film Processing Services from and sponsored by PAC Lab
Fledgling - Tony Gault and Elizabeth Henry (Glenwood Springs, Colorado)
Best Music Video =$400 Gorilla Software from and sponsored by Jungle Software
No More - Ken Ochiai (Los Angeles, California)
Best Jersey Film =$400 Gorilla Software from and sponsored by Jungle Software
Gitchy - Thomas Norman (Brick, New Jersey)
Audience Choice Prize=$400 of stock footage from and sponsored by Stock Footage For Free
Can't Fight This Feelin' - James Christy (Princeton, New Jersey)
Honorable Mention Winners
City of Noise - Mitch Barany (Calgary, Canada)
Making The City - Ruchi Mital, Brooklyn, New York)
Hiljaisuudesta toiseen (From One's Silence To Other's) - Panu Johansson and Annika Rapo (Hägersten, Sweden)
Cut - Matthew D'Abate (Brooklyn, New York)
The 2010 United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival, which is part of the New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2010, is funded and sponsored in part by The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; The Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies/School of Arts and Sciences; Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission/Board of Chosen Freeholders and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Eastman Kodak; Johnson & Johnson; New Jersey Books; WCTC/WMGQ; The Home News Tribune ; Highland Park Mirror ; The Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences; the Rutgers University Office of Academic Engagement and Programming ; The Rutgers University Spanish Department; The Rutgers University American Studies Department; Writers Boot Camp; Rutgers University Zimmerli Art Museum; the Rutgers University Center for Middle Eastern Studies ; the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program; Pro 8mm; PAC Lab; ProductionHUB.com; Jungle Software; New Brunswick City Market; StockFootageForFREE.com; Rutgers University Libraries; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; Rutgers University Presentation Services; The Rutgers University Enhanced Classroom Support Department; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.
http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2010/02/17/time_off/entertainment_news/doc4b7c28a972ce1694335563.txt
http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/movies/2010-united-states-super-8-film-and-digital-video-festival-coming-to-rutgers
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20100219/ENTERTAINMENT02/100215049/1/ENTERTAINMENTFRONT/It+s+time+for+RU+s+Super+8+Film+Festival
http://jerseyshore.metromix.com/events/article/gitchy-comes-to-new/1761203/content
http://www.app.com/article/20100122/ENT01/1220301/1031/ENT/NJ-Film-Fest-has-best-seats-in-town
There was also a color photo from the film City of Noise with a caption in the Metropolitan section of the NY Times on Sunday, February 14, 2010 on page 14!
The Rutgers Film Co-op, the New Jersey Media Arts Center & the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies
present the New Jersey Film Festival screening of the
2010 United States Super 8 Film & Digital Video Festival
Cover Art: "Grid/Lock/Wed/Lock" Photogram ©2009 A.G. Nigrin
Friday-Sunday, February 19-21, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Voorhees Hall #105, Rutgers University
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey U.S.A.
$10=General; $9=Students + Seniors; $8=Film Co-op Friends
Information: www.njfilmfest.com; 732-932-8482
2010 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festivalsm
Now in its 22nd year, the United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival is the largest and longest running juried Super 8mm film and digital video festival in North America. The festival encourages any genre (animation, documentary, personal, narrative, experimental, etc.) made on Super 8mm/8mm film, Hi 8mm/8mm, or Digital video. Every year our Festival draws large audiences to celebrate works created with these small-gauge media formats. Audience members come to see small-budget works created by passionate film/video makers, which are often more imaginative and impressive than the big-budget works, produced out of Hollywood. The 22nd annual United States Super 8mm Film + Digital Video Festival will be held on February 19-21, 2010 at Voorhees Hall #105 (beginning each evening at 7 PM) on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Festival will include a different program each evening.
All works were screened by a panel of 10 judges including media professionals, journalists, students, and academics. The panel included: Cathleen Burrows, Steve Dovidas, Lea Koussolulis, Corey Marshall, A.G. Nigrin, Elina Prokofyeva, Emily Schachtman, Shawn Stidem, Claire Taylor and Danielle Winter. These judges selected the 23 finalists which will be publicly screened at our Festival. These finalists were selected from over 160 works submitted by film and videomakers from around the world. 160 entries represents the third most the Festival has ever received. In addition, the judges chose the Prize Winners (including over $3000 in prizes) in conjunction with the Festival Director. Audience members will be asked to participate in the judging process by voting for their favorite works via the "Audience Choice Prize." The award winners will be publicly announced after the screenings on Sunday, February 21, 2010.
Special thanks to all the jurors listed above; Irene Fizer; Susan Martin-Marquez, John Belton, and Alan Williams of the Rutgers University Program In Cinema Studies; Rosalyn Neal and Anna Aschkenes of the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission; The New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State - a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Susan Selig, Geoff DeMoss, and Judy Doherty of Eastman Kodak; Michael Bzdak of Johnson & Johnson; Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway of the International Center for 8mm Film & Video; Rhonda Vigeant of Pro 8mm; Barbara and Mike Poolin of PAC Lab; Aaton Cohen-Sitt of Jungle Software; The Bagel Dish; Bill Harris of Share and Harris; and The Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC friends, sponsors, donors, interns, and staff for making this festival possible.
We urge you to submit work to the 2011 U.S. Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival when we will celebrate the 23rd year of the Festival! Thank you for making this year's festival a huge success, and see you in 2011.
Albert Gabriel Nigrin
Executive Director/Curator & Founder
Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center + The U.S. Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival
The 2010 United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival, which is part of the New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2010, is funded and sponsored in part by The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; The Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies/School of Arts and Sciences; Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission/Board of Chosen Freeholders and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; Eastman Kodak; Johnson & Johnson; New Jersey Books; WCTC/WMGQ; The Home News Tribune ; Highland Park Mirror ; The Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences; the Rutgers University Office of Academic Engagement and Programming ; The Rutgers University Spanish Department; The Rutgers University American Studies Department; Writers Boot Camp; Rutgers University Zimmerli Art Museum; the Rutgers University Center for Middle Eastern Studies ; the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program; Pro 8mm; PAC Lab; ProductionHUB.com; Jungle Software; New Brunswick City Market; StockFootageForFREE.com; Rutgers University Libraries; The Rutgers University Office of Community Affairs; Rutgers University Presentation Services; The Rutgers University Enhanced Classroom Support Department; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.
2010 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Program
All screenings will take place on February 19- 21, 2010 beginning at 7PM, in Voorhees Hall #105 at 71 Hamilton Street on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Admission per evening: $10 General; $9 Students/Seniors; $8 Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC Friends
City of Noise - Mitch Barany (Calgary, Canada)
Follow a man as he competes against different realities of himself for a magic treasure chest. The Summerlads's City of Noise music video crosses portals that bridge space and time. 2009; 4 min.
Apart - Richard Martin (Vancouver, Canada)
Images captured through a rain-washed windshield at once peaceful and unsettling. 2010; 8 min.
Inside Out/Side One - Matt Meindl (Columbus, Ohio)
A short film exploring the texture and tangled-up nature of memory. The past comes alive collage-style through a shifting landscape of trees, shadows and tattered strips of wallpaper. 2009; 5 min.
Autumn in Flux - Jason Nardella (St.Joseph-du-Lac, Canada)
A dream-inspired skateboard ride down hills surrounded by autumn leaves. 2008; 5 min.
Making The City - Ruchi Mital, Brooklyn, New York)
This short documentary focuses on two artists working in different media who live and create in New York City. Charlene works with glass creating links for jewelry. Rebecca creates watercolors based on sound and architecture. The immediacy and handmade feeling of Super 8 film reflects the handcrafted, unique works of the artists featured in the film. 2009; 6 min.
Waste: Not In My Back Yard - Brad Yonghyun Cho (Brooklyn, New York)
A timely documentary about recycling as the key to reducing waste, preserving our health, environment and economy, comparing trash collection in Brooklyn, New York with Seoul, Korea. 2009; 30 min.
Gitchy - Thomas Norman (Brick, New Jersey)
Gitchy the killer tickling clown is in town. He'll make you laugh and laugh...till you die! 2009; 32 min.
No More - Ken Ochiai (Los Angeles, California)
In this music video, love and hate are the same emotion, just in reverse. 2009; 3 min.
The Reel Man - Kieran Heilbron (Toronto, Canada)
A short film about a man, a hat and a fishing rod. 2009; 3 min.
Fledgling - Tony Gault and Elizabeth Henry (Glenwood Springs, Colorado)
A deeply moving, tenderly realized film, Fledgling explores the bond between a man and the baby bird he finds on the street one stormy night. A backyard provides the rich setting for a story about our conflicted relationship to nature. 2009; 7 min.
Hiljaisuudesta toiseen (From One's Silence To Other's) - Panu Johansson and Annika Rapo (Hägersten, Sweden)
The traces of a life-story, that once was. The main narrative is lost but beautiful fragments remain. 2009; 8 min.
Who Shot Judge Roy Bean? - Jonathan Dodd (King George, Virginia)
Jonathan Dodd delves deep into his family history with the hope of finally putting to rest a 40-year long family feud. 2009; 9 min.
Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman - Matthew Mishory (West Hollywood, California)
Delphinium is a stylized and lyrical coming-of-age portrait of legendary Super 8mm filmmaker Derek Jarman and his artistic, sexual, and political awakening in post-War England. Part biographical narrative, part experimental collage, part personal meditation on Jarman as an artist and activist, the film finds the stirrings of creative epiphanies that inspired a remarkable life. 2009; 12 min.
Cherry Blossom Season - Jeff Moneo (New York, New York)
The course of a relationship is examined through the eyes of seven different women in six different countries. From the birth of an affair to its ultimate demise, Cherry Blossom Season looks at the ephemeral nature of love and life itself. Filmed on location in Japan, Russia, Egypt, Peru and Canada, this heartfelt elegy charts the anxiety, joy and pain of falling in and out of love. 2009; 23 min.
Cut - Matthew D'Abate (Brooklyn, New York)
A chilling, atmospheric film focusing on a woman who cuts herself. 2009; 18 min.
JSY - Marco Espirito Santo and Fred Fannon (Carcavelos, Portugal)
A modern-day call to arms to save the environment. 2009; 1 min.
Bird Names' Nature's Over - Alee Peoples (Providence, Rhode Island)
A playful music video by the Chicago band Bird Names . 2009; 3 min.
Can't Fight This Feelin' - James Christy (Princeton, New Jersey)
A parody of the Apple's MAC/PC commercials. MAC is smart, hip, cool and eminently sensible. PC is pudgy, stodgy, stiff, and laughably rigid. But today, after taking it on the chin again, PC decides not to play along, and MAC reveals a darker side. 2009; 8 min.
Maverick - Kyle Whitehead ( Calgary, Canada )
Part lucid dream, part manifesto and part autobiography; Maverick is an affirmation of the power of film flicker. Serendipity becomes the rule rather than the. The film, shot on super 8, was hand developed by the filmmaker to cultivate the potential of an indeterminate process. 2009; 7 min.
Fawn - Christoph Rainer (Klosterneuburg, Austria)
A dystopia of smashed images flicker gently over the screen, conveying the unarticulated movements of contours and shadows. And besides that, a girl is trying to reconstruct her relationship with the world as a silhouette. 2008; 6 min.
Elisabeth's Tuesday - Juan Ortiz (Bronx, New York)
Live for the moment. 2009; 5 min.
Apt. 44 - Richard Ventura (New York, New York)
Beware! Things are not necessarily what they seem; 2009; 5 min.
Free Land - Minda Martin (San Diego, California)
In Free Land , filmmaker Minda Martin examines her family's history of homelessness and displacement within a national and historical context. Pairing her personal archives with public record, Martin illustrates the social and psychological impact of constantly looking for opportunity in America. Free Land provides a fresh and incisive critique of the unfulfilled promise of "The Land Of The Free" by exposing the lies that have held the myth together and the country's long legacy of social inequality. 2010; 63 min.
2009 United States Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival Award Winners
Grand Prize Winners
Best Documentary=$400 of Film Processing Services from and sponsored by PAC Lab
Immokalee U.S.A. (Georg Koszulinski and Dan Gloeckner, New York, New York, 2008, 77 min.)
Best Experimental=Tie=$250 of film from and sponsored by Eastman Kodak
Die Schneider Krankheit (Javier Chillon, Madrid, Spain, 2008, 10 min.)
Out of the Blue (Alexandra Roxo, Brooklyn, New York, 2009, 7 min.)
The Night Gardener (Jennifer Hardacker, Portland, Oregon, 2008, 9 min.)
Best Short=Tie=$400 Gorilla Software from and sponsored by Jungle Software
Cochran (James P. Gannon, Brooklyn, New York, 2008, 8 min.)
October’s End (Patrick Boyton, Frederick, Maryland, 2009, 7 min.)
Fossil Light (Tony Gault, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 2009, 17 min.)
Best Animation=$400 Gorilla Software from and sponsored by Jungle Software
Trapped (Chota Takamine, Okinawa, Japan, 2008, 10 min.)
Best Jersey Film=$400 Gorilla Software from and sponsored by Jungle Software
Haunted Hayride (Warren F. Disbrow, Neptune, New Jersey, 2008, 94 min.)
Audience Choice Prize=$100 of film from and sponsored by Eastman Kodak
Cochran (James P. Gannon, Brooklyn, New York, 2008, 8 min.)
Honorable Mention Winners
Herb Garden (Noah Stout, Princeton, New Jersey, 2008; 5 min.)
T-shirt of Me (Matt Meindl, Gahanna, Ohio; 2008, 5 min.)
MJ12 (Rob Malone and Zach Strauss, Yardley, Pennsylvania, 2008, 21 min.)
The Night Janitor (Adam Harvanek, Brooklyn, New York, 2008, 10 min.)
Syntagma (Christina loakeimidi, Athens, Greece, 2008, 8 min.)
More Control (Steve Daniels, Columbia, South Carolina, 2008, 6 min.)
The Yellow Forest (Phillip Docken, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2009; 10 min.)
The Heart is What Remains (Alexandra Roxo, Brooklyn, New York, 2009, 13 min.)
Finalists
Joey and Jerome's Artistic Meaningful Independent Film (Josh Bass: Houston, Texas, 2007; 23 min.)
Show Me (Jessica Vogt, Hillside, New Jersey; 2008, 13 min.)
Gertel’s galore ..lore .. ore (Stephanie Gray, Flushing, NY, 2007, 7 min.)
Eve’s Apples (Mary Borrello, Astoria, New York, 2008, 5 min.)
The Art of Comedy (Jenniffer Dominguez, Bronx, New York, 2008, 5 min.)
For more information call the Rutgers Film Co-op/NJMAC at 732-932-8482 or go to our website at www.njfilmfest.com!