straight 8 announces new partnership and entry extension

straight 8, the Super 8mm film competition, has announced Warner Chappell Production Music as a sponsor.

They come onboard as the deadline for the straight 8 Shootout competition extends its entry deadline to March 25.

“We’re really excited to be partnering with this competition," said Roberto Borzoni, Head of UK Production Music at Warner Chappell Production Music. "In such difficult times it is as important as ever to support the creative industries. We really like the punk aesthetic and creative spirit behind the straight 8 Shootout and just the full-on fun factor of it. It has real positivity and good vibes that match our ethos.”

"It’s so great that the team at WCPM should want to jump in and support straight 8 Shootout at a time like this," says Ed Sayers, Founder of straight 8. "That our scary-as-hell, raw filmmaking competition for the industry is something they want to align with. It’s unsurprising that we’re already enjoying working together."

This Shootout, the theme for which is Nature, pits advertising, film and TV companies against each other in a bid to create the best two-and-a-half minute Super 8mm film which is shot on just one roll of Super 8 with no retakes and no post production, and then submit an original soundtrack ‘blind’. 

Companies already signed up to this edition of Shootout include, among others, Dog Eat Dog, Iris Worldwide, Groundglass, Pitch & Sync, Thomas Thomas and VCCP. The competition is limited to 20 companies and, at the time of writing, only 10 places remain.

To find out more information about straight 8's 2021 Shootout, or to apply to enter, please click here.