Artifact Small Format Film Festival – Night 3: $100 Film Challenge

Calgary’s only celluloid based film festival. Tonight is a group of analog short films projected digitally, plus the $100 Film Challenge.

Night 3 of the Artifact Small Format Film Festival will happen at Festival Hall. There will be a collection of short films shot on either Super 8 or 16mm, and projected digitally. Then, after the intermission the films from the $100 Film Challenge will be shown. These are local filmmakers who were given a roll of Super 8 and were able to make whatever they wanted.

Doors at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7:00pm.

Included films:

• Lich & Ton - Jan Rehwinkel (16mm, 6min, Germany)
• (for once I dreamed of you) - Kate Solar (16mm, 6min, Canada)
• Las Animas - Matt Feldman (16mm, 14min, USA)
• Softer, Softest - Olivia Norquay (Super 8, 5min, Canada)
• Objectionable Fruit - Hogan Seidel, Gabby Follet (16mm, 15min, USA)
• Letter From Blackhawk Island - Derek Jenkins (Super 8, 2min, Canada)
• Leaf Peeper - Vito A. Rowlands (Super 8, 3min, USA)
• The Wild Sheriff - Sarah Houle (16mm, 12min, Canada)

The $100 Film Challenge will feature new work from: Hernán Moreno, Evelina Groll & McKenna Killen, Denver Johnson, Natalia Cortes, Celine De Capite, Dharshan Abraham, Stephanie Ferrer, Samuel Lawrence, Damian Munoz, Connor Doyle, and Christian Kostyniuk.

The Artifact Small Format Film Festival (formerly the $100 Film Festival) is Calgary’s only celluloid-based film festival. When the $100 Film Festival was born in 1992, it showcased eight short films on Super 8. The name sprung from the challenge to shoot a short film on four rolls of Super 8 – which tallied to the cost of $100. In following years, the festival dropped the budgetary limit and allowed 16mm film, which shifted the focus from low budget to quality small-format films. Thus, the name was changed to the Artifact Small Format Film Festival in 2017 so as to better represent the festival's role as an international celebration of creative story telling on film.

This event is sponsored by the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers. CSIF was founded in 1978 by a collective of twelve filmmakers who saw the growing need for film resources and film equipment on the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), also known as Calgary, Alberta. Now over 40 years later we are an integral part of the growing cultural community in Calgary and are excited about new collaborations and opportunities.