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by Michael Slowe
Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:08 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
Replies: 48
Views: 15729

Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023

That's really interesting to hear. All the Festivals that I receive invitations from are with FilmFreeway and are quite expensive to enter and very few seem to feature convenient screenings. How do the Festivals that you mention publicise their event?
by Michael Slowe
Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:35 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
Replies: 48
Views: 15729

Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023

John, it's getting rarer I have to say. Even the humble club show has all but disappeared, BIAFF and some continental festivals are all that is available for the ambitious film maker. To be perfectly honest, I have taken to watching commercial films at home via streaming rather than in the cinema, t...
by Michael Slowe
Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:31 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
Replies: 48
Views: 15729

Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023

Howard, yes, we both can see the sense of what that judge was saying but I still maintain that he is not totally correct. A full blown complicated drama would of course benefit from all the professional assets, but not all 'one man' films would. I have been fortunate enough over many years to have h...
by Michael Slowe
Tue Mar 07, 2023 10:30 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF RESULTS 2023
Replies: 48
Views: 15729

Re: BIAFF RESULTS 2023

I strongly disagree with Howard that lone film makers are at a disadvantage as opposed to a team. Over the last fifty years or so I've only worked alone and find that I can go by instinct, both in shooting and editing and would find it impossible to discuss with others how I was feeling and thinking...
by Michael Slowe
Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:41 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Who?
Replies: 6
Views: 2030

Re: Who?

They certainly were John. Some of my proudest moments were going up on to the NFT stage to receive a Ten Best, I was lucky enough to do that six times, I think that Albert was also there a few times. I think the films are still in the BFI library, I know that a number of mine are anyway. The thing a...
by Michael Slowe
Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:09 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Who?
Replies: 6
Views: 2030

Re: Who?

Tim, if you google the IAC you can get them. That site you mention is so out of date it isn't true! I well remember Amateur Cine World and I seem to remember that it then morphed into Movie Maker. The demise of this magazine, along with the world's premier non commercial film competition, the Ten Be...
by Michael Slowe
Sun Dec 25, 2022 2:01 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: A Bunch of Amateurs
Replies: 37
Views: 9625

Re: A Bunch of Amateurs

For those that don't know and who are not as ancient as I am, Albert Noble was, in the 60s and 70s a wonderfully talented and successful film maker, all animations as I recall. He was on the stage at the NFT with a Ten Best on more than one occasion. I may have expressed myself badly because of cour...
by Michael Slowe
Sat Dec 24, 2022 4:49 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: A Bunch of Amateurs
Replies: 37
Views: 9625

Re: A Bunch of Amateurs

No difference in outlook Tim. Both want to satisfy an audience, both want to add to a portfolio of work (You Tube, Vimeo), both compete with fellow film makers to appeal to judges. As to the subject of the film, I can't see any difference between a personal choice or one suggested by others.
by Michael Slowe
Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:23 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: A Bunch of Amateurs
Replies: 37
Views: 9625

Re: A Bunch of Amateurs

No Tim, I don't think it is "a different outlook". We are film makers, whether we wish o make a career out of it or not. The aim of the activity is identical, to make good films. The old artists of the past didn't start painting to make money, they started because the were talented and the...
by Michael Slowe
Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:15 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: A Bunch of Amateurs
Replies: 37
Views: 9625

Re: A Bunch of Amateurs

Ned, by all means visit this topic again, what you write is what I am trying to say. We are all film makers and the word amateur is quite meaningless, the final product is what matters and we've seen rubbish from a 'professional' and genius from an 'amateur' and vice versa. The problem is in obtaini...
by Michael Slowe
Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:12 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: A Bunch of Amateurs
Replies: 37
Views: 9625

Re: A Bunch of Amateurs

John,your summary of the 'club' situation is spot on, as is your plotting of the course for serious film makers. The problem remains, how do us non commercial serious film makers proceed? Club, and even Regional, film festivals are disappearing, leaving BIAFF as our main forum. I think that I'm righ...
by Michael Slowe
Sat Nov 26, 2022 12:51 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: AGM 2022 - what should we aim for?
Replies: 4
Views: 6386

Re: AGM 2022 - what should we aim for?

I too would like access to a recording, it's always preferable to be able to watch things in our own time, it is often difficult to attend these meetings 'live' I find. Dave, I always regarded you as a 'big wig' in the IAC, one who was in the know and with influence. I go back to Menasseh and Gillha...
by Michael Slowe
Wed Nov 16, 2022 4:26 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: FVM October 2022 issue
Replies: 23
Views: 12133

Re: FVM October 2022 issue

The 'new' magazine is brilliant! Well done to all concerned, it is a credit to the IAC I believe. How on earth did we ever (not me) entertain the proposal to relegate it to merely on line? Even if we had to pay a basic cost it would still be an essential arm of the IAC in my opinion.
by Michael Slowe
Mon Nov 14, 2022 10:12 pm
Forum: Film Comments - a moderated forum
Topic: 50 plus year old film !
Replies: 10
Views: 22996

Re: 50 plus year old film !

Funnily enough Albert, some of my very early 'impressionistic' films do stand up today, rather better in some cases than my current stuff. I think that my creative juices have dried up somewhat and I'm finding it all more difficult. But you are right, much of the pre 21st century output does seem sl...
by Michael Slowe
Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:51 pm
Forum: Film Comments - a moderated forum
Topic: 50 plus year old film !
Replies: 10
Views: 22996

Re: 50 plus year old film !

Dave, I was alluding to that actually, the many festivals that I see, do seem to favour controversy, conflict, sexual orientation etc etc. They are usually very good films, no problem with that, but, in order to get noticed today I feel that a documentary has to be on those lines. You, being a very ...