IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

Six 4 star films.
Two 3 star films.
One 2 star film.
I wonder if this is a record number of entries from a filmmaker in a single year?
I didn’t quite make it to 5 stars this year but not to worry there’s always next year!
Congratulations to all the top winners!

But Michael, I bet you didn’t predict or expect your 1 star award 2 years ago! I realise that I value the BIAFF awards more highly than many filmmakers. For me, BIAFF is the main incentive for making films as it provides goals to aim for. My Diamond award from last year means a lot to me and I’m hop...

The wait for the results is agonising. Hopefully we’ll receive them very soon…

Michael, I can’t afford the massive bribe that would be needed for that to happen!
I’m hoping the results will start to be sent out from Monday 21st March. Time will tell.

Go on Michael, spill the beans! What do you know?
I suspect you’re bluffing… unless you’ve hacked into the BIAFF organisers’ computers!

I think that a film less than a minute long is hardly worthwhile… though the shorter the running time the less appropriate it is to say that it’s a waste of time.

Suddenly I find that the forum has come out of hibernation! I don’t agree that the majority of filmmakers use other festivals as a stepping stone to get into the professional film industry. Yes, many do, but the hugely successful Birmingham Film Festival had around 900 entries, almost 30o of which w...

I was lucky enough to have a film selected for UNICA about 4 years ago, ‘Like a Bullet’ starring the late Simon Hawkins. This was awarded 4 stars at BIAFF but it didn’t win anything at UNICA and received a pretty harsh review. Nevertheless it was an honour to have had it included in the UNICA progra...

Thanks for posting this, Paul. I’ll choose at least one of my recent films to put in.

What a pity that most of us former subscribers to Movie Maker magazine disposed of them or lost them at some point. Somebody somewhere must have a complete set and maybe they would consider selling the collection. I’d love to read again all those Ivan Watson columns… and everything else. My first ed...

If BIAFF 2022 could be a live event for all who wish to attend AND also streamed live for all who wish to remain at home, we would have the best of both worlds. I maintain my view that it should definitely go ahead in Birmingham as a live event. I find it utterly depressing to envisage a future wher...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’d be gutted, devastated, if the live BIAFF event in Birmingham were to be cancelled and just held on Zoom again. It’s high time we got on with life and learned to live with the virus (as we have for years with the flu virus which can kill people) otherwis...

Very kind of you Geoff but what I want is a collection of Movie Maker magazines which ran from the 1960s to the 1980s, the magazine that ran the Ten Best Competition.

What I would personally love to obtain is as complete a collection as possible of Movie Maker magazine. My old copies regrettably were lost in a house move around 20 years ago.

John, I’d be devastated if BIAFF 2022 as a live event in Birmingham was cancelled! Zoom events are a pale shadow of physical events. If you’re still a paid-up member of the IAC it’s puzzling as to why you’re not receiving FVM in the post. The most recent edition (which included my article ‘The Makin...