Grace Chin

Are you familiar with the Crazy8s competition in British Columbia?

Thanks to today’s guest, executive director of the Crazy8s Film Society, Grace Chin, you are now.

The event is held in March annually and if you’re able to participate next year, go for it. But as Grace talks about, not everybody gets in. This conversation offers your best roadmap to get crazy in Vancouver next year. 

In this episode, Grace and I discuss:

• what is the Crazy8s? "it's still the eight crazy days -- they shoot for 3 days, the fourth day you deliver your rough cut, fifth day your fine cut, sixth day your locked cut, seventh is editing, and then you deliver on eight";
• how did she get involved as executive director of the festival?;
• how she got involved in filmmaking and running festivals, including the Asian Film Festival, before going over to Crazy8s;
• what does she see as the market for short films? "definitely festivals";
• why does Western Canada get a shorter shrift than the rest of the country in indie filmmaking?;
• how Crazy8s is helping filmmakers in British Columbia;
• what she told the people that got rejected from Crazy8s;
• what does Crazy8s look like in five years? is AI part of the plan?

Grace's Indie Film Highlight: DOUBLE HAPPINESS (1994), dir. by Mina Shum

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