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Hello all, I am hoping that someone can answer my questions here. I am planning on shooting a 20 min. narrative short on a BMPCC 4K Cinema Camera. I will be using the BRAW 3:1 at 2.6K in a 16:9 aspect ratio, at 24 FPS. Once it is edited and color corrected and sound design is applied, I will take a digital file and send it to either CineLab in Massachusetts, or Colorlab in Rockville, MD for a filmout negative and a 16mm print. I am thinking that the lab will be able to make a 4:3 squeezed print from the 16:9 image. Is this even possible?

I'm set to shoot a short film set in 1973 on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and my goal was to make it look as close to period as possible. I figured since shooting on film wasn't in the budget, I would see about using the film-out process. I've done some research and could only find FotoKem and ColorLab that do that sort of processing. ColorLab seems most promising at the moment, but is slightly pricy. Are there any other companies out there that do film-out that I've overlooked? Also, I do realize the film stock they would use wouldn't help very much at all to make the short look like it was shot in the 70s. What I was hoping for is, I'd love to send in my own film stock for it to be printed onto so it will achieve the right look. I just don't know if that's a possibility because I don't know much about the process. If anyone has advice on what I'm trying to achieve it would be much appreciated. I thought about shooting on 70s lenses, but film-out seemed like it would make the most difference without just slapping a filter on.