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by Michael Slowe
Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:40 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF Results 2022
Replies: 72
Views: 35167

Re: BIAFF Results 2022

Howard, I simply can't believe what I just read in your last post. When you submit a work, be it a painting, poem, piece of music or a film, to a panel of judges, you can't possibly complain when they don't rate it for a top prize. You may well disagree with them privately, but rather like a batsman...
by Michael Slowe
Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:26 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF Results 2022
Replies: 72
Views: 35167

Re: BIAFF Results 2022

Yes, but Dave, it is true that the Forum is hardly used. There is a big membership of the IAC and I'm amazed that they don't talk to each other. There is a small group (unconnected to the IAC), who communicate between themselves, of which I am a member, but where is the wider IAC membership. Perhaps...
by Michael Slowe
Mon Mar 28, 2022 11:06 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF Results 2022
Replies: 72
Views: 35167

Re: BIAFF Results 2022

No Howard, that is not the right way to think. In 1970 something I won a top thing (it was called International in those days) and didn't win another until around 2008, there is no peak, just an ongoing creative process. Enjoy it, that's what it's all about.
by Michael Slowe
Mon Mar 28, 2022 9:00 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF Results 2022
Replies: 72
Views: 35167

Re: BIAFF Results 2022

I mentioned before Howard, don't get too worked up, film judging is very subjective. Over the years, my first IAC Festival (LAFF) was in 1973, I have very rarely disagreed with a judgement, either on my own, or on other other people's films. This year my scores are 444, what will be will be. We are ...
by Michael Slowe
Fri Mar 25, 2022 8:37 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF Results 2022
Replies: 72
Views: 35167

Re: BIAFF Results 2022

Ah Howard, that's true! I can tell you that not even a Triple Diamond works wonders when you get old, things start to hurt, you'll see.
by Michael Slowe
Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:29 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF Results 2022
Replies: 72
Views: 35167

Re: BIAFF Results 2022

I'm not with Howard on this, I'm never (hardly ever, HMS Pinafore?)) surprised by my results so no anxiety whatsoever. Dave, cruel comments are all part of the aspect of art, we have to accept them, the same as we accept praise when forthcoming. Judges surely can write honestly and openly, otherwise...
by Michael Slowe
Sun Mar 06, 2022 10:47 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF Results 2022
Replies: 72
Views: 35167

Re: BIAFF Results 2022

Well, I achieved my aim, to wind young Howard up! Not too successfully though I admit.
by Michael Slowe
Sun Mar 06, 2022 1:25 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF Results 2022
Replies: 72
Views: 35167

Re: BIAFF Results 2022

Oh, so you haven't received your results yet then Howard?
by Michael Slowe
Fri Mar 04, 2022 1:47 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF Results 2022
Replies: 72
Views: 35167

BIAFF Results 2022

Very interesting selections this year.
by Michael Slowe
Sun Feb 13, 2022 9:09 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: UNICA
Replies: 19
Views: 14089

Re: UNICA

Well said Ned, film makers are a worldwide breed, no matter how much they spend or earn in the process. Another tooth grinding word is "hobbyist". To many of us, the making of films is a life consuming passion, the word hobby is generally taken to mean an activity undertaken by way of recr...
by Michael Slowe
Fri Feb 11, 2022 12:07 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: UNICA
Replies: 19
Views: 14089

Re: UNICA

As always, Dave has it spot on. The reason for entering the more open Festivals, has to be our desire to compare our work with films other than the IAC and Club output. As to judges comments, these are not often available, but having a wider audience certainly is, although the Covid restrictions hav...
by Michael Slowe
Mon Feb 07, 2022 10:51 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: UNICA
Replies: 19
Views: 14089

Re: UNICA

I think that there is too much talk about the size of budgets for film making. I don't think that it really helps all that much when there is money spent on a production. Obviously a James Bond film needs an enormous budget for all the travel, stunts and stars, but the documentary and short film gen...
by Michael Slowe
Sat Dec 25, 2021 8:36 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Film & Video Maker Magazine - Back Issues
Replies: 7
Views: 6679

Re: Film & Video Maker Magazine - Back Issues

Howard, I did have the whole lot, uninterrupted from about 1963 up to the demise of the magazine. I think that I have somewhere issues concerning my Ten Best successes and a few articles but otherwise all slung, at my age one starts to prepare for one's own demise!
by Michael Slowe
Wed Dec 22, 2021 1:16 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF 2022
Replies: 77
Views: 51209

Re: BIAFF 2022

This whole matter just has to be addressed with a sense of proportion. Of course you can die of Covid, as you can of many other ailments, and Covid, is spread incredibly easily. As Richard says, risks have to be assessed, but I do believe that the risks with Covid are fairly remote and decreasing as...
by Michael Slowe
Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:39 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: BIAFF 2022
Replies: 77
Views: 51209

Re: BIAFF 2022

I'd completely forgotten that I did book a hotel for BIAFF and I've just found the confirmation. I'm at the Novotel for the two nights in a standard room with "a double bed with convertible sofa", whatever that might entail. So there is room for a pretty local girl if I could find one, alt...