Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
THE RESULTS The annual OVFM Oscars were held on Tuesday March 21st 2017, honouring and recognising the hard work and output of club members over the past 12 months. In case you missed it or need a reminder here is the list of winners: ANNUAL COMPETITION Ian Dunbar Cup (Best film) – Reaching For …
Ladles and Jellyspoons It is that time of year again when we ask you to drag your best clobber from out of the mothballs, then put them on and bring yourselves down to the club meeting for the 2017 OVFM Oscars! Every year we celebrate and reward the efforts of our club members with a …
Happy New Year to you all! With the festive season now over with and the huge haemorrhoid that was 2016 now consigned to the dustbin of time, we welcome 2017 with open arms. However here at OVFM there is still some unfinished with last year, namely the annual Top Ten competition. The qualifying rounds …
Despite the weather plunging deeper into the coldness of winter this year;’s North vs South final at Farnborough Village Hall on Sunday December 4th welcomed a very healthy turn out (in fact two extra rows of chairs were needed) to find out which side of the river would prove victorious! An impressive count of …
As the year hurtles ever close towards it conclusion we still have some film business to take care of here at OVFM, in the form of three annual club competitions, created in tribute to past club members. These three very different contests give club members a chance to test their creativity under explicit criteria and …
The 2016 North vs South final is upon us, taking place on Sunday December 4th! OVFM has five films entered in to this year’s contest on the theme of “Out Of The Blue” and it has been a while since our name has been on the winner’s list so let’s hope 2016 is our …
We’ve now reached the last of the four qualifying rounds of the annual Top 10 Competition meaning this is the final opportunity club members have to enter their film ahead of the final on January 10th 2017. The remaining listed club invited to submit a film for this round are as follows: Charlie …
Another new film competition for IAC members (and non-IAC members) for the South has been created by Tim Stannard & Alan Colgrave but this one is slightly different. Instead of having to burn a disc buy a jiffy bag then toddle off to the post office to buy the correct stamps in order to send …
It’s round three of the Top Ten already and last time we had two entries so hopefully we don’t have a commensurate number of films for this session. Perhaps with the summer holidays now over club members will have something to share that documents what they got up to while the sun was out a …
And as quickly as that we move into the second round of the 2016 OVFM Top Ten competition! We had four entries for the first round (the results of which are HERE) and as ever we are looking to top that number in this round. The club members who have been drawn for this …