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- A sunny day at the park becomes a duel to the death when two lemonade sellers turn to guerrilla warfare in a battle for customers
- Ed Sayers and Ben Gregor came up with a novel idea for making films and engaging the film community. They bought a load of old super 8 film cartridges and sent them up to various filmmakers. The challenge to each was to make a 3-minute film without any edits or post-production and not to see that film until it is shown in front of a live audience and on television. Attracting well-known directors and students alike, the project spawned quite a following as well as this short television series, showcasing about 10 of the shorts over two episodes.
- A lonely mime takes desperate measures in order to find the audience he deserves.
- A couple's relationship has become meaningless and bitter. The wife plans to poison her husband by tampering with his food. But after a mix up, she is surprised by a usual turn of events. The husband is blissfully unaware of his wife's attempt to take his life. As the night progresses, things begin to spiral into a series of strange and unexpected occurrences for the couple. Will they and their marriage survive the night?
- An epic dark tale from the Mexican countryside. A strange eyeglass arrives in the village giving people a troubling snapshot of heaven.
- Cornish for 'Abduction', Denladrans is a found-footage style film made for the 2024 Straight8 competition. It follows a story of an alien sightings, pagan rituals and an occult abductions in far-west Cornwall, 1987.
- An obsolete house robot must come to terms with his new life when his elderly owner replaces him for a newer model.
- A young boy discovers that Super Heroes are just ordinary people when he sees them through his Super-Specs.
- A young woman messes with time travel.
- An innocent bystander witnesses something gruesome.
- A lost girl wandering around the city of Buenos Aires asks herself about the strange reasons that led humanity to live in squared spaces while we discover she's actually not human and that her out-of-the-box thinking comes from another planet.
- Earth to Earth follows the life and times of allotment 4a with it's owner describing how he came to terms with it's 'special' qualities.
- On a journey to Dungeness, Christopher Hughes reminisces his life, his career and his friendship with Derek Jarman. The film was made on 8mm film for Straight 8. It was shot on one single cartridge of super8 film and edited in-camera.
- Shot on Super 8 for the Straight 8 2020 Competition. Each of the films were made on one roll of Super 8 film, with only in-camera editing and no post production. The Straight 8 2020 Jury was made up of Jo Duncombe, Justine Wright, Katie Metcalfe, Robbie Ryan and Asif Kapadia. The selected films screen at The Cannes Film Festival and in London. Jinx premiered in London as part of the Best Films of 2020 Straight 8.