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by Phil Martin
Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:02 am
Forum: Advice on Films
Topic: DROUGHT INTO DRINK
Replies: 15
Views: 34549

Re: DROUGHT INTO DRINK

A holiday film is a documentary and a documentary, just like a fictional film, must tell a story. Many holiday films simply showing a sequential record of the holiday – “first we went to Sydney, then Ayres Rock, then the Barrier Reef …and finally we flew back from Adelaide”. However, we have all see...
by Phil Martin
Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:09 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: How might BIAFF entries be judged?
Replies: 54
Views: 47376

Re: How might BIAFF entries be judged?

Thank you Peter for expressing so clearly what I have felt since I returned from BIAFF but have been too cowardly to say out loud. I cannot understand the enthusiasm with which the amateur film world embraces disgusting films. The 23rd of August at 0.17am, Propast , and Ich were all well made (the f...
by Phil Martin
Thu Apr 22, 2010 2:46 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: 2010 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION RESULTS
Replies: 40
Views: 32002

Re: 2010 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION RESULTS

I have just seen Michael Slowe’s post of 20 April. Like him I picked “Between” as the winner of the Daily Mail Cup, closely followed by “In the Grip of Khat”…until I watched “Rainbow Angel”. How can a film of this quality fail even to reach the final Panel?