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My second UNICA was the following year, in Tallinn, Estonia. The journey was fun. We flew to Stockholm via Copenhagen. Our hotel was the one used for Nobel dignitaries and winners - too expensive to eat in but very comfortable, We had a day to explore the city before catching an evening ferry to Hel...

Readers of the forum will know the name: UNICA. (It stands for Union Internationale du Cinéma d'Auteur'. The last letter used to stand for "amateur", but many countries have the same arguments about that word as we do in the UK. The idea now is that "auteur" - author - implies a ...

Tim and Michael - could you imagine members of Bradford Movie Makers having that debate?

I am sure you know, Albert, but for the curious:

There are two kinds of best boy: best boy electric and best boy grip. They are assistants to their department heads. These days they may be "best girls".

Who knows what pronouns they may wish to choose!

Thanks for the tip-off, Ken. At this time of year it was not always easy to get out to the few cinemas that were showing the film.
Hope you and Carol have a very happy Christmas and a merry New Year!

Follow-on - after IAC Council meeting on Wednesday: https://scontent.flhr2-4.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/316688317_581786390614934_316544487992481518_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=ImVw7SAn5s4AX9k4i9E&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr2-4.fna&oh=00_AfCHYK-_E5zYzrHlYzEoaaLGkBF...

Michael - I am nothing in the IAC now ... except perhaps a thorn in the side!

Simon Sumner should have the Zoom recording and I see no reason why he should not make it available.

Further news from the IAC AGM: BIAFF 2023 will last from Monday 1st to Monday 8th May ... most of that time online. It is likely that there will be live screenings in the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Friday 5th to Monday 7th May - with a break during the time of the coronation of King Charles III. ...

As a mere youngster in his mid-70s ... it seems to me that for a long time in the amateur film movement, people avoided controversial documentary themes - at least in Britain and the USA. In much the same way as they avoided swearing or nudity, they generally did not film poverty, gay sexuality, inj...

Still no news of change, so we can only assume BIAFF goes ahead as planned. It will now be in the middle of a three-day weekend with the extra bank-holiday being added on the Monday.

It was very difficult to get a weekend in the theatre ... so probably not much scope for change.

Keep an ear out for the sound quality - again using the best equipment you can get gold of. Now and then a film appears at a festival, and the sound is "thin" or has other problems. The film maker probably checked on his computer or home tv and found no problems.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Institute will be held on Saturday 12th November 2022 at 12 noon online via Zoom Meeting. You can see the detailed notice at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oIIb4GXAoYT174Y588pVgmPBj2RaNNHR/view All very formal, unheralded and anodyne. B...

Gosh I have not seen that one for ages!

It is a little long for today's tastes, but still charming.
Thanks

A professional cameraman once told me: "Ideally you should stick a reel of film in your head and blink 24 times a second."

But that doesn't help John ... we must have someone around who can answer him.