Home Movie Day with A/V Geeks

Aurora Picture Show presents Home Movie Day with A/V Geeks June 18-20. Skip Elsheimer in Attendance.

Home Movie Day is an international celebration of amateur films, designed to both provide a showcase for home movies, student films, and other forms of amateur media, and to provide a gathering to discuss best practices for film and digital media preservation.

Look through your attics, dig through your closets, call up Grandma, and search out your family's home movies and bring an 8mm, Super8, 16mm film (sorry, no video or slides) to see it projected.

Or just show up and watch the films of others. It's not just historically significant – it's fun!

Bring your own films and A/V Geeks will transfer film to digital formats on-site for a very low fee of $25 for Aurora Picture Show members or $35 for non-members for up to four small reels or about 15 minutes of film.

Skip Elsheimer will be available throughout the three days (Thursday, Friday & Saturday, June 18, 19 & 20, 11:00AM – 2:00PM) for anyone who would like advice on how to preserve their own films, photographs, and digitized and born-digital documents.

You may also drop off your films ahead of time from Monday, June 15th through Wednesday, June 17th between 11am and 4pm and the A/V Geeks will digitize them when they land in Houston.

Then on Saturday, June 20 at 7PM, join Aurora and A/V Geeks for the final night of the program with Home Movie Day Screening and Bingo with A/V Geeks where a selection of the films that the A/V Geeks digitized for Houstonians during Home Movie Day. Audiences will play

Bingo and win prizes as they find birthday cakes or cowboy hats in the home movies.