The results are in https://unica.movie/2023
Gary Hewitt's "Dig", winner of BIAFF 2023, won a UNICA Gold medal and won Best in Competition. Well done Gary.
Congrats also to Suzi Topolska, whose inventive "Adventures of Cowboy Kale" was awarded a diploma.
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- Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:30 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: UNICA 2023
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17189
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 5:44 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Open Film Night Summer Chalenge
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4835
Re: Open Film Night Summer Chalenge
A benefit for me (and I gues there are others like me) is it forces me to make a film. No matter how good an idea I might think I have for a film, I get so bogged down considering potential problems with making it (or even deciding which is the best of several good ideas), I find it very difficult t...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 5:29 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: What is the difference between an AV and a film?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6718
Re: What is the difference between an AV and a film?
These discussions rear their ugly head from time to time and people can get all het up about it, often out of all proportion. But that's not surprising. We do become unreasonably irate about things about which we are passionate. Sometimes things change as a result, sometimes the same old arcuments c...
- Mon Jul 17, 2023 6:20 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: What is the difference between an AV and a film?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6718
Re: What is the difference between an AV and a film?
I think that's a fine line which an audiences might find it difficult to see! If it exists at all, I suspect it is subconscious. Certainly I think a film audience would expect to see high quality moving images.. I don't think that's necessarily true. A high quality historical documentary might comp...
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 3:42 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: Judging-FVM June
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6247
Re: Judging-FVM June
We may all have different opinions, but I also prefer those top two prizes to go to different films. But if, in the judges opinion, the Best in Festival happens to be made by a British entrant, we have no choice but to award it both. I have judged many a club/inter-club/regional festival where we h...
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?
- Replies: 86
- Views: 29472
Re: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?
Is it just we older hands who prefer a live event? I was going to say "No" when I realised I am one of those "older hands". Despite not attending myself this year (which turned out to be just as well as, for family reasons, I'd have had to travel back home Friday night anyway) I...
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: What is the difference between an AV and a film?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6718
Re: What is the difference between an AV and a film?
I suspect the distiction has blurred to have become meaningless and I wonder if it is today more relevant to the audience than the product itself. Here's a hypoythesis: Audiences for AV expect very high quality images and sound, used creatively to illustrate an interesting narrative (be that drama, ...
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 2:40 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: YouTube cut my video short
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5773
Re: YouTube cut my video short
Jill, much better to put stuff on Vimeo. Unless you want people to come across it when searching :wink: In the same way VHS won against the technically superior Betamax, YouTube beat Vimeo in popularity and therefore liklihood of your film being seen. I'm not sure the technical agruments hold water...
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 2:30 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: August FVM
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16615
Re: August FVM
I just returned home to discover two packages. One containing my usual copy of FVM and another containing a further TWO copies. I can only assume someone erroneously has my name as recipient for a club - though which club, I have no idea!
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 6:29 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21635
Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
it did make me think there's room for a + and - system to be put in place Tom, putting such a system in place for films where one panel sees every film and has time to analyse in detail (and possibly watch again) would make sense, but i'd suggest that even with the heroic attempts to standardize ju...
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:12 pm
- Forum: Equipment and Technical Issues
- Topic: YouTube cut my video short
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5773
Re: YouTube cut my video short
I'd start here, Jill: https://support.google.com/youtube/answ ... er-than-gb, Jill:
- Fri Mar 31, 2023 3:34 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21635
Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
Mustn't argue with the referees of course, but I did feel that for one film they didn't quite "get it" ( down to me as the maker I guess!) This is a potential problem with any viewer, not just judges. I could bore you with tales of a film I made several years ago with a pair of twins and ...
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:42 pm
- Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
- Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21635
Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
Though quite a lot of Shakespeare's and Beethoven's work required several others for it to be appreciated by the massesAlbert Noble wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 10:09 am Shakespeare, Constable, Beethoven, etc all worked alone too.
- Wed Feb 08, 2023 1:38 pm
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Who?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3800
Re: Who?
That site you mention is so out of date it isn't true! Just to be clear the "site" is not a repository of information. It uses artificial intelligence to create conversations but draws on lots of other resources. As these resources include books and sites such as reddit (but apparently no...
- Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:24 am
- Forum: Club and General Issues
- Topic: Who?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3800
Who?
AI Chatbots are hitting the headlines. I've just been playing with ChatGPT which is really impressive in many ways. Whilst it is not designed to be a search engine (indeed it's not designed to be anything except a research project) I thought I'd ask it about our world. It didn't know of any IAC in t...