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British Success at UNICA 2008 - World Class Winners
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Phil Martin's haunting film In the National Interest received a UNICA gold medal. The film presents an account of the crucial meeting of the Joint Iintelligence Committee in 1942 that heard an eye-witness report of the extermination of the Jews in the concentration camps, yet decided to conceal it from ministers. You can read Phil's account of making the film here. |
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 | Alan Atkinson's comedy Heatwave received a UNICA silver medal. This Bond parody features Gordon Bullock as the wacky inventor Walter Ruddles battling to save the world yet again. You can read Alan's account of making the film here. |
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Changes coming up in BIAFF 2009
BIAFF Competition Manager
It is with regret that we have to announce that Brian Dunckley, who has done such a great job for so many years, is stepping down as BIAFF Competition Manager. Our thanks to Brian, and his wife Alice - who has also contributed a great deal - for all their work and now, perhaps, Brian will be able to enter some films himself.
Brian′s departure caused us a certain amount of panic; he would be a hard act to follow and we needed someone to take over in good time for next year′s BIAFF. Fortunately, David Newman immediately offered to take on the role. David has done an excellent job in recent years as CEMRIAC Competition Manager and will now do the job nationally / internationally. So, please look out for a new name and address on the BIAFF 2009 entry forms and keep him busy with a record number of films.
Alan Atkinson (Vice-Chairman)
BIAFF 60 Second Competition
The IAC has long been rightly proud of BIAFF, a competition and Festival that attracts films of the highest quality from around the World. In recent years, it has included a 60 Second competition, to give an opportunity to screen short, snappy films.
As many of you will realise, however, the standard of many entries has tended to fall far short of the films in the main competition and we risked compromising the status of the whole event. It seems that we are just not yet ready to make enough one-minute films of the quality achieved by their longer counterparts (or, for that matter, by those TV commercials that we admire so much.)
For this reason it has been decided to abandon the 60 Second Competition at BIAFF. It will still be possible to enter your short films, of course, but they will now be part of the main competition. In order to encourage this, the entry fee will be reduced to just £7 (£6 for IAC members) and producers will now receive the same full written comments from the judging panels as are provided for longer films.
And, in case you are feeling a sense of loss, we will, of course, continue with the Mini Mermaid 60 Second Competition at the IAC’s Autumn AGM events.
Alan Atkinson (Vice-Chairman)
Ready to enter your film? Download an entry form (in English, Dutch, French or German)
here.
I like to make films because I like to go into another world, I like to get lost in another world.
(David Lynch)
Shout From the Rooftops
Did you get an award at BIAFF or elsewhere? Have you done a story for your local
newspaper/s, radio and television news magazine? Looking round the web some
people have already made publicity out of getting 3 or 4 star awards, let
alone the higher and special prizes. Of course it is out of character for
reserved Brits to boast ... but think of it as helping promote your club,
your IAC, your hobby.
Don't waste words in a press-release, get straight to the point in the first
sentences: "Local team, XYZ Club have stars in their eyes. This weekend they
have just received a 4-star award from a major international festival for their
comedy 'ABC'. Shot in local parks and the quaint snug bar of the Lion and
Pilchard bouncy funnyman Jim Jones stars ... " Later on work in references
to the club's venue and meeting nights. Always give an email or telephone
contact so journalists can follow-up. Try to have ready for them one or two
anecdotes about the filming.
Latest News (Updated 21/7/2008)
Festivals and Competitions
- Entry form for BIAFF 2009. Deadline 31st January 2009.
- Full details and entry form for the Phase4 2008 Fiction Film Competition. Deadline 9th Oct 2008.
- News of this year's Kent Festival here.
- You have till 1st September to get your entry ready for AMPS (the American Motion Picture Society) Festival.
- We now have details of this year's Tallinn Festival here .
Events
- Don't wait to book - places at the SoCo Weekender at the end of October are selling fast.
Results
- Shooters Hill Box Office 2008: each month a new club showreel is viewed, and the film voted best is announced here.
Other
- Our Life Vice-President Gerald Mee has been awarded an M.B.E..
- Find out what happened at UNICA this year in Tunisia.
- Turner Prize winning artist Gillian Wearing is looking for people who would be interested in taking part in a film project. Find out more here.
- Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum is looking for film makers to show and discuss their work with an audience. More information.
- WildFilmHistory is launched - a website recording and celebrating 100 years of wildlife filmmaking. www.wildfilmhistory.org.
- ITV's 'The Way we Were' is back and looking for old 'home movies' from filmmakers in the South/South East. More information.
BIAFF 2008
Check what happened at the Festival in Harrogate.
The results . About the judges .
Read about the making of the top films.
M.B.E. for Gerald
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Gerald Mee, Life Vice-President of the I.A.C., has been awarded an M.B.E. for voluntary service to Heritage in Leek, Staffordshire.
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Miscellany
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