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by TimStannard
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:45 pm
Forum: Film Comments - a moderated forum
Topic: A trilogy of Skulls
Replies: 1
Views: 23

Re: A trilogy of Skulls

Totally and utterly mad!
Love the trombones
by TimStannard
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?
Replies: 52
Views: 3618

Re: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?

A BIAFF judge recently told me that they must judge a film on a first viewing only. Indeed. The star rating has to be awarded based on a seven minute discussion. There is some logic to this - most people will decide how "good" they think a film is whilst watching it. However, it also expl...
by TimStannard
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:45 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?
Replies: 52
Views: 3618

Re: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?

Willy wrote: Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:06 am Michael ... you are the best filmmaker in the world.
And there's you're epitaph, Michael. It doesn't get much better than that!
by TimStannard
Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:00 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?
Replies: 52
Views: 3618

Re: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?

the others, as I recall, just didn't like it. AT ALL. I hope they didn't mark it down just because they didn't like it. Whether we like a film or not shouldn't have anything to do with it (though I imagine we are all influenced by our likes and dislikes). Comedy has the biggest problem here. If you...
by TimStannard
Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:52 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Where next for the IAC?
Replies: 25
Views: 2367

Re: Where next for the IAC?

Looking at Geoff's point from another angle, in the past two or three years, IAC members have been given free entry, as have club films, before a certain date, so to a certain extent membership gives you free write-ups whereas non-members have to pay. The potential downside to this free submission -...
by TimStannard
Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?
Replies: 52
Views: 3618

Re: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?

BTW I've not seen any comments here on Paul Kittel's excellent promo for BIAFF
I sincerely hope he used some templates for this as it would take days to make all these edits manually:

https://youtu.be/i0xtAYtlmhs?si=H53J7NlLuZlpssIU
by TimStannard
Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:30 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?
Replies: 52
Views: 3618

Re: BIAFF 2024 - yes or no?

Having now got a proper job (I was made redundant when the school I worked at went into administration at Christmas), I shall be returning to BIAFF this year after a finacially induced absense last year. Boy, how I missed it! I'm so looking forward to seeing some excellent films. I hope Werner's &qu...
by TimStannard
Fri Dec 22, 2023 9:18 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Shock Horror!
Replies: 1
Views: 765

Shock Horror!

Surrey Border Movie Makers has a new member - but that's not the shock! Under the "How did you hear about us?" question he answered "IAC Search"!

Never assume no-one looks.
by TimStannard
Wed Dec 20, 2023 7:38 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Our friend Ron Prosser has passed away. We'll miss him!
Replies: 3
Views: 624

Re: Our friend Ron Prosser has passed away. We'll miss him!

Sad news indeed. My thoughts are with Joy.
by TimStannard
Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:48 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Where next for the IAC?
Replies: 25
Views: 2367

Re: Where next for the IAC?

I think it is probably still attractive to filmmaking enthusiasts to meet up with people who share their enthusiasm. But the fact that the numbers of people turning up to clubs, or to inter club events, or to festivals, would seem to suggest othewise. And I think it is still attractive to show film...
by TimStannard
Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:51 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Where next for the IAC?
Replies: 25
Views: 2367

Re: Where next for the IAC?

That could mean that the proportion of IAC members who are entering BIAFF is declining. Yes, it might make an interesting statistic. I wonder if anyone actually keeps these figures? Perhaps we need to make BIAFF entrants aware that the competition can only survive if more of them become IAC members...
by TimStannard
Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:30 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: UNICA 2023
Replies: 7
Views: 14641

Re: UNICA 2023

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.
by TimStannard
Tue Aug 08, 2023 5:44 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: Open Film Night Summer Chalenge
Replies: 9
Views: 1873

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...
by TimStannard
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: 2676

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...
by TimStannard
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: 2676

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...