[Frameworks] Advice with screening format for festival. Help!

[Dana Duff]

Dear Frameworkers,
I have an 8-minute 16mm film scheduled to be screened in a few weeks in 
Europe and had I hoped to send it in film form.
The original was shot in 7266 Tri-X reversal on three 100' rolls and the 
festival selected it from a low quality transfer, where I cut the three 
rolls together digitally.

So in order to send a clean print, my plan was to re-shoot on negative, 
have the negative cut, and then print it seamlessly on one piece of film 
to send to the festival.

Which I did. But the print from the 7222 negative has crawly grain! It 
looks like it's being projected on a bed of squirming lice; the image is 
just too subtle to handle the grain and I can't sent it.

It only needs 2 splices, 4 with leader: should I try to splice the 
original with tape or cement splices (will a festival take tape splices 
and should they be both sides?)?

Or would I be better off to send the rolls out to be scanned in 2K, cut 
it together digitally, and send digital media files (how big is big 
enough to look like film?).
I only have three weeks before it must ship.

Thanks for any advice on this!
xo Dana



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