Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival 2020 by Northwest Film Forum

Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival 2020 by Northwest Film Forum

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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

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