Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
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Guest speaker – Christine Green – 18/06/2019 When Hugh first told me that Christine Green was an incredible speaker and her subject was fascinating, I didn’t believe that she would be that good. Was I in for a surprise. Wow, what a presentation. With a packed house, including 8 or so from Spring Park, she …
CHRISTINE GREEN For this week’s meeting we get to take the weight of our feet and lt someone else do all the hard work as we welcome another guest speaker to our humble club. This time we shall be hearing from artists and graphic designer Christine Green. Christine was born into a family …
SPRING PARK FILM MAKERS present SPITFIRE OVFM members are invited to join Spring Park Film Makers for a screening of their film Spitfire on June 13th. Here are the details of this event from Spring Park secretary Brenda Troughton: Spring Park are showing the film ‘Spitfire’ on 13th June which was made …
Here we go again with one of OVFM’s longest running and prominent annual competitions the Top Ten! As you know by now, the Top 10 is when we get serious with our filmmaking, as the gloves are off – there are no limitations on what the subject matter or style or genre of film …
The KFF is one of the longest running interclub competitions dating back to 1974 and returns for its 2019 iteration to be held on September 29th at Powell Theatre, Canterbury Christ Church University, North Holmes Road, Canterbury CT1 1QU. OVFM has been a regular contributor to this event although we haven’t had a winning film …
FAMILY We realise it hasn’t been that long since we first announced this Film To A Theme project but the topic is one that not only has universal possibilities but given most people’s first foray into filmmaking is home videos of their families. therefore we are confident there is a wealth of footage …
ANYTHING GOES! Whilst we are busy all year round here at OVFM with Film To A Theme projects and competitions that extend to certain categories, there are often films being made by our members that don’t really fit any of these remits. this might be because they are too adventurous for the Top 10, …
Celebrating innovation and excellence in filmmaking, the BAFTA-Qualifying Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF) is looking for emerging and established practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of filmmaking forward to showcase their talent and innovative work to wider audiences at the 2019 event. Filmmakers can submit their Short Films, Feature Films or VR & 360 works …
FAMILY There’s no stopping us here at OVFM. We may have just completed one Film To A Theme project and now we have another for you to get stuck into. As you can see, the theme is a universal one – Family! We all have one – it might be large or small, in close …
MAKE SENSE OF THIS Hopefully you’ve all had a chance to download the footage supplied by Sam Brown for this editing project we first announced last month and have been working away in taking these random clips and making a coherent film out of them. Admittedly, they seem like they don’t have any …