Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
The nights are getting darker and colder which means another annual OVFM tradition must be around the corner and surprise surprise it is! This week’s club meeting will see three of our long standing annual competitions – The Mike Turner Plate, The Kath Jones Cup and The Vic Treen Trophy – being contested and with the …
You may recall that the original plan for this week’s club meeting was to have a guest speaker in Graham Kirkman but unfortunately, due to work commitments Graham had to pull out. So we’ve had to resort to “Plan B” but don’t worry as we have something rather fun line up for you. Because …
And so we come to round three of the annual Top Ten competition aka the “Barbara Darby Hands Off That’s Mine” award! In both Round One and Round Two we received just THREE entries each so we are still looking for an improvement on that front although the standard of the films has been high thus far! You can find the …
This week’s meeting sees us entering the second round of the annual Top Ten competition aka the “Barbara Darby Hands Off That’s Mine” award! In Round One we received just THREE entries so if anything one objective for this round is to see if we can beat that! You can find the results of that round HERE! As …
OVFM Top 10 Competition 2014 Results Here are the ongoing results of the 2014 Top Ten Competition! Round One – Held May 27th 2014 1. “The Bells Of St. Barthomolew’s” by Barbara Darby 53.63 2. “Anti-Gravity” by Hugh Darrington 49.26 3. “High Street Fun” by Ann & …
One of the many annual traditions for OVFM is the North vs South competition where film clubs from this side of the river do (friendly) battle with film clubs from the other side. While the organising of the event in the north is handled by Altrincham Movie Makers, OVFM are responsible for the south …
Hello all This BBC news story about how archived footage of Britain from the 30’s and 40’s has been updated for online use caught my eye along with the link to a competition being held by the British Film Council which you can read about HERE. The idea is to make a film (no more …
This week’s meeting sees the first round of the annual Top Ten competition aka the “Barbara Darby Hands Off That’s Mine” award! As ever you asked to bring in your best film to be judged by your peers in OVFM and the ten films that receives the highest votes over the course of the …
Congrats to our very own Professor Mike Shaw and his partners in Footprints Productions for their recent big win at this year’s SERIAC Film Festival . The film in question was Enid Blyton – The Beckenham Years , a seven year labour of love for Mike and his collaborators from Spring Park which received a record four …
This week’s meeting is a little different for OVFM as it has nothing to do with us! Okay that is a little glib but on this occasion we are playing host to the 2014 Triangle competition, while three other clubs will put their films up for judging while drinking our tea and eating our biscuits! …
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