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Hurrah! Please - all readers - consider making two trips to Birmingham in 2025: BIAFF the weekend 25th - 27th April UNICA the week 17th - 22nd August The events are similar but different(!) You know the BIAFF format. UNICA begins on Sunday with an orientation day so that visitors can find their way ...

Can anyone come?

UNiCA, the international amateur film body, holds an annual festival in different member countries. 2025 it will be at The Crescent Theatre in Birmingham - where we usually hold BIAFF. Please note the dates: 17th to 22nd August Please plan to visit. Over 100 film enthusiasts from all over Europe and...

Dear Martin ... welcome to the ranks of "daft buggers" who have kept IAC afloat for so many decades!

Each of those tasks: magazine editor, webmaster and house mover is a full-time job-and-a-half!

Are you seeing sense and moving to Scotland?!?>!

The issue with site certificates has been resolved, thanks to Richard Palmer of Merula.

IT IS PERFECTLY SAFE TO BROWSE THE NEW IAC WEBSITE
AT THE SAME ADDRESS: WWW.THEIAC.ORG.UK

Hi John At present the members section is in "Lorem Ipsum" ... conventionally publishers use a standard piece of Latin text to give the impression of what a page would look like with words of different lengths. I don't think Martin plans to publish FVM in Latin ... though he might fancy do...

It was a great pleasure to meet Werner and An and to have time for a quick chat in the super cafe at the Cultural Centre in Poznan last week. We were also stewing in hot moist air with temperatures in the mid 30s. No ladies buried in sand, but lots of stylish people of both sexes (all sexes?) enjoyi...

Martin: One or more of the website's certificates is invalid. Everyone else: If your anti-virus software allows you to ignore such a warning, you can do so safely, at least so far as I know. In this case it is a clerical issue in keeping the paperwork up to date, not a nasty piece of code trying to ...

Reading this thread, I keep thinking about the number of music festivals around the UK and everywhere else. These seem to be packed with enthusiastic young people. Why are they willing to pay a lot of money to squash in with a crowd to hear bands playing? Yet they can hear the music better in their ...

Why should there be?

Who cares when a film was made, so long as it does its job?

My worst experience with editing software was some years ago. I was to be on the jury for a film festival in Austria and the organisers insisted that each jury member bring a film they had made, which would be evaluated by the audience! I don't make competition films as a rule, but decided to try. M...

Some of our younger readers may not recall the arguments for and against transitions at the time when it became possible to do them electronically and every manufacturer boasted of how many their system offered. Some of us lost sight of straight cuts or simple fades. Your film, Albert, pokes such ch...

Thanks for sharing, John. Bonus marks for the brave lady star!

Anyone else care to share their films?

I have not heard of this practice before ... but I can see it makes sense for a festival trying to grow.

That's the point!

Sometimes we get too obsessed with competitions, prizes and even possible commercial careers ...

there is nothing wrong with those things, but most of us make films for the fun, the satisfaction and the sense of personal achievement