Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
This week’s club meeting is the third round of the annual Top Ten Competition. For the results of the first two rounds please click HERE. We’ve had a total of eight films thus far across the first two rounds so once again the challenge is to top that total, although we do understand the …
KENT FILM FESTIVAL 2015 The annual Kent Film Festival will soon be upon us, taking place on Saturday 26th September 2015 at Canterbury Christ Church University, with doors opening at 10:30am. OVFM has had a far amount of success at the KFF over the years, our last big win occurring in 2013 while we had a good showing …
OVFM Top 10 Competition 2015 Results Here are the ongoing results of the 2015 Top Ten Competition! Round One – Held June 9th 2015 1. “30 Years of Caring” by John & Ann Epton 55.40 2. “Leaf Cutter Ants” by David Laker 53.00 3. “Central Park New York” by Jim Morton Robertson …
We may not have been at our usual venue and we may have been down on numbers due to health reasons but were we downhearted? Take a look at the photos and you can decide as in a departure from the norm club members were asked to take their own presentation photos – or ‘Selfies’ …
Last night, March 17th, OVFM held their annual Oscars awards ceremony at the All Saints Church in Orpington. A capacity crowd filled another venue while some of the OVFM faithful showed up to receive their awards and see their peers be rewarded for their creativity and hard work over the past year. As ever our …
2015 is starting to pick up steam which means the annual Top Ten competition aka the “Barbara Darby Hands Off That’s Mine” award is about to begin! As ever the names of all OVFM club members have been put into the hat belonging to our competitions organiser Brenda Wheatley and drawn in random to make up the …
Those American impostors may have got there first but our annual film awards show is still the best. Tuesday March 17th sees the biggest event in the OVFM calendar in which the hard work and creativity of OVFM club members are rewarded with polished up bits of shrapnel with the names of previous winners carved into them. As …
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One evening, two teams, a brace of video cameras, a heap of props, and a bunch of ideas. Your challenge, should you accept it, is to…make a short film! With a maximum of two hours available and the clock already ticking the pressure was on and there was no time for the normal club niceties…except …
As we welcome the New Year here at OVFM we kick off as always by taking care of some unfinished business vis-a-vis our annual Top Ten competition! The qualifying rounds have taken place and the results can be found HERE with the ten highest scoring films from those individual rounds having now earned their spot in …
2014 NORTH v SOUTH GRAND FINAL REPORT An audience of 62 people represented by 12 different clubs turned up at Farnborough Village Hall for the 2014 North v South Grand Final. We were especially pleased to welcome members from Sutton Coldfield Movie Makers and Lowestoft Movie Makers who made the several hours journey to be …