IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

Ah yes Albert but AI won't lead you to an interesting documentary subject, nor will it shoot it for you.
The art world is becoming alarmed by the possible use of AI and who can trust videos and photographs now, bad times ahead, I'm glad to be 'very old'!

Oh dear, all this depressing chat from you guys, cheer up for heavens sake. Messrs Simpson and Evans need cheering up, maybe Dave, you and I should get them a few drinks at BIAFF in April? Mr Editor, I will write a piece for you not even mentioning the old STANDARD 8mm days, and certainly not how I ...

Reading this thread can be rather depressing in that it is obvious that community and communal shared experience is becoming less a part of our lives. Within our own sphere of non commercial film making the demise of local film clubs is having an enormous effect on middle aged and elderly people and...

Exactly Albert, and also because mine were better than yours!

Martin, the magazine that you refer to, Moviemaker, was the successor to Movie Maker which in the 60s and 70s was published by Fountain Press and edited by Tony Rose and Alan Cleave. It was the mainstay of non commercial film making and promoted and ran the wonderful competition called the Ten Best....

An on line mag would be the end of the IAC as far as I am concerned.

I totally agree that some of the modern editing systems do rather 'over egg' the process. When we edited on film, as I did in both 8mm and 16mm for over ten years, straight cuts and the occasional mix or fade, was all we needed. The range of digital tricks available today is mind blowing but, in my ...

Dave, I'm not so sure that there would be no objection to a film made, say, fifty years ago, especially if it had a wide circulation and even been entered in a previous long ago IAC competition.

Ned, you have put your finger on my problem. Getting your films actually seen is now much more difficult, apart of course, from the Vimeo, You Tube etc.

Strange certainly, and something I find difficult to manage. E Mails are a great benefit because if you can't phone someone you know they'll see your message. Text also is good, but the FaceBooks, Twitter etc etc are not for me. As to the film festivals, I only enter those that plan a screening, oth...

I get two or three of these mails daily. It followed my success in various festivals with my film Danny's Red Box. Some mails are quite persuasive and offer various inducements by way of discounts and if the festival sounds reasonably prominent I do enter the film. They are however, as has been sugg...

John, I think that the funding of fictional films does illustrate the difference between amateur and professional productions, but documentaries need not be expensive. We can compete with the professionals provided that the subject is interesting enough.

Ned, the Docutah site looks amazing. How can one see some of the films, they look really interesting?

Dave, in answer to your question "very little if any". Laurels are meaningless because they are not worth adding to a film if it's already "printed" and circulated. Attending a screening is very worthwhile if firstly, one has a film selected and secondly, if the event is in the UK.

Thanks Dave for this info.

Can I ask Ned, who is hopefully still 'listening', when is the next Docutah and what are the entry details?