Nigel Barton
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:35 am
Hi all;
It was the Burnley Film Festival on Saturday. I was shocked to see in the programme that a film entered by Southport Movie Makers which was made by Nigel Barton had the brief note attached that he was recently deceased. At the interval I spoke with a Southport member who said it was recent and sudden and a shock to the club, but he knew little else.
So yesterday I did a search on Facebook and saw that there was a posting from his brother Phil that Nigel died of a massive heart attack on January 16th.
I only know Nigel Barton quite vaguely. He send films into our Phase 4 Film competitions and I had cause to ring him up when his film "Rent-A-Mate" won the best entry at one of them. He didn`t drive and so without a lift, he couldn`t come to our premiere show. So I had to speak to him to reveal that he was in fact the overall winner. He offered to send us a video message thanking us for the award, which we showed at the end of the evening. But I told Nigel about the IAC International competition and that he should enter "Rent-A-Mate" (even though it was likely he would be competing against us.) He did enter it and it won the comedy award.
Since then, I have seen his name on several Southport films.
I cannot add any more as I didn`t know him personally and I am surprised that his club haven`t announced it unless it appears in the next FVM.
So I thouhgt that I should post something so readers of the forum will know.
Ken
It was the Burnley Film Festival on Saturday. I was shocked to see in the programme that a film entered by Southport Movie Makers which was made by Nigel Barton had the brief note attached that he was recently deceased. At the interval I spoke with a Southport member who said it was recent and sudden and a shock to the club, but he knew little else.
So yesterday I did a search on Facebook and saw that there was a posting from his brother Phil that Nigel died of a massive heart attack on January 16th.
I only know Nigel Barton quite vaguely. He send films into our Phase 4 Film competitions and I had cause to ring him up when his film "Rent-A-Mate" won the best entry at one of them. He didn`t drive and so without a lift, he couldn`t come to our premiere show. So I had to speak to him to reveal that he was in fact the overall winner. He offered to send us a video message thanking us for the award, which we showed at the end of the evening. But I told Nigel about the IAC International competition and that he should enter "Rent-A-Mate" (even though it was likely he would be competing against us.) He did enter it and it won the comedy award.
Since then, I have seen his name on several Southport films.
I cannot add any more as I didn`t know him personally and I am surprised that his club haven`t announced it unless it appears in the next FVM.
So I thouhgt that I should post something so readers of the forum will know.
Ken