GATE TO GATE

Gate to Gate is a 1-minute promo in development: an engaging and digestible moment, which aims to pique its audience interest in celluloid film as a medium.

Set across generations, G2G explores the importance of handing down the knowledge and joy of making and watching film on film, conveying its timeless relevance without reducing it to a nostalgic relic of cinema-past.

This is a project that will be close to the hearts of film-lovers everywhere. It’s an opportunity to enliven the modern audience’s engagement with this beautiful format.

Ultimately, G2G will be a 1-minute trailer shot and distributed on 35mm film to every cinema around the world still projecting film. A true celebration of celluloid and the magic of the moving image.

In a nutshell:

We follow a filmmaker as she discover’s her father’s 8mm camera, onto experimenting with 16mm film as a teen, and finally with her as her first 35mm feature film premieres. Alongside the unfolding of a life, we watch the story of the celluloid film she uses in parallel as well as the precious & precise work that goes into printing film, showing the technicians and projectionists that work so carefully and lovingly behind the scenes. In turn, we see how, in so many ways, celluloid film mirrors an individual human life in its physical nature and its unique story. No two prints, nor two lives, are identical.

MEET THE MAKERS

SOPHIE LIPSEY PRODUCER

Sophie Lipsey is a producer and the head of creative development at New Sparta Productions.

Sophie joined New Sparta in 2021. Since then, she has been part of the production team on several international productions across the UK, USA, Italy and the middle-east. She co-produced the upcoming feature film Lone Star Bull and was an associate producer on this year’s action-comedy Mafia Mamma as well as the upcoming Saudi-British drama To My Son.

Sophie has the ongoing pleasure of working with some of the most exciting established and emerging talent (both on and off screen) across the world.

At the age of 17 Joe’s passion for analogue film led him to start Slindon Cinema - an initiative to reinstall celluloid projectors into his local 1930’s village hall. The Cinema project has continued to run purely 35 and 16mm films for nearly 5 years, going from strength to strength and gaining support across the film and cinema industry.

The cinema is remarkably one of the only remaining cinemas in the world to exclusively screen films on film: monthly weekend screenings over the autumn/winter months.