Welcome to IAC Online!
This website is packed with festival news, list of clubs, movie making tips, articles on amateur movie makers and their work, plus an active forum to keep you in touch with other enthusiasts.

We welcome your feedback and suggestions. If you have club news, articles on moviemaking, adverts for equipment sale, etc., just Email them to the Webmaster. We look forward to your contributions to make this website even better.

IAC AGM and Autumn Convention

Something for everyone in a packed weekend at Milton Keynes on 24th to 26th October - a guest speaker from television; technical forums; trips and even a couple of mermaids. More details .

North v South Competition

This year's theme is Be Prepared . The North has won for the last three years. Can the South turn the tide? Clubs, you have till the end of October to get your entries in. More details .

The Cotswold International Film Festival is no more

Nine years after founding the festival, Lee Prescott has announced his retirement. Attempts to find a successor for Lee have failed, and the festival will not continue. The sad news came at the end of the 2008 award winners show.
The festival website has more information.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. (Jean-Luc Godard)

Festivals and Competitions

• Entry forms for BIAFF 2009. Deadline 31st January 2009.
• Full details and entry form for the Phase4 2008 Fiction Film Competition. Deadline 9th Oct 2008.
• Competitions and big prizes at www.filmaka.com. If you want a challenge, take a look at 'Digital Cribs' (make a film about a home that uses Digital Technology) and the Feature Film contest (the September theme is 'The First Day').
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

• Do you have a home movie showing everyday life in Britain during World War II? Such movies are wanted for a series being made for the BBC. More information here.
• Our Life Vice-President Gerald Mee has been awarded an M.B.E.
• Find out what happened at UNICA this year in Tunisia.
• Our new sponsor for the BIAFF Acting award, StarNow.com, do not charge for a casting call to StarNow. However, if you request an actor you will need to give your IAC membership number. For more information see the StarNow website.

Results of the Cotswold and Guernsey Lily festivals

We have the results from the

• Cotswold Festival 2008
• Guernsey Lily Festival 2008

We've also produced a comparison of the results of the big 3 UK International festivals (BIAFF, Cotswold and Guernsey) to see how they rated the same films.

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

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.

• Public Liability Insurance - more cover available but for IAC clubs only.
• ITV Local arrives
• Alan Colegrave's IAC Tech / Video / Photography News
• IAC Goodies! - wear the logo with pride.
• Transferring cine to video - Colin Jones shares his experience
• The Guernsey Lily website has had a total revamp - worth a look.
• Why won't my DVD play on a TV? - Ray Williamson has some answers.
• How do I make DVDs that run every time? - Ray Williamson has some suggestions.
• How did they make that? - over 100 articles by film makers about specific movies.
• The Production Village - online resource for student film-making and drama.
• Trackline are ... er ... back on track. Their website now offers MP3s.

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