Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
Frome Five Minute Festival 2014 Report by Mike Coad On Saturday, Jo and I went down to Somerset for the annual Frome Five Minute Festival organised by Frome Film & Video Makers. It is now almost as old as I am, being in its 23rd year and is an annual pilgrimage for us. It …
“Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends” A new year means a new start for the annual Top Ten competition aka the “Barbara Darby Hands Off That’s Mine” award! Once again the names of all OVFM club members have been put into the hat belonging to our competitions organiser Brenda Wheatley and …
THE RESULTS Hello and welcome to the annual OVFM Oscars Results report. The 2014 OVFM Oscars took place in front of a bored audience at the Barnard Room, St Augustine’s Church on a somewhat chilly night but that didn’t stop them dressing up in their best glad rags for the events. Actually it did stop …
“They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway” Well they have nothing compared to the luminescence of the OVFM Oscars, especially those Yanks who are trying to steal our thunder by hosting their thrupenny bit knockoff version two days before ours! The biggest event in the OVFM calendar arrives on March 4th where the …
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The annual SERIAC film festival is soon upon us with this year’s event taking place on April 5th 2014 at Oast Theatre Tonbridge! The closing date for entries is January 31st and the entry form can be downloaded from HERE! For further information on SERIAC and other film festivals visit their website : http://www.seriac.org.uk/festivals.html Good …
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you’ve all got the festive cheer and associated indulgences out of your systems as we get ready to kick off the New Year here at OVFM. Our first order of business is to settle some unfinished business from 2013 – namely the Top Ten competition. Our first club …
North vs South 2013 Grand Final Report by Mike Coad The Grand Final of the North v South Competition took place on Sunday 24th November in the South at its usual venue of the Village Hall in Farnborough, Kent. A 5 hour show which included all 25 films entered into the competition were shown to …
Hasn’t time flown by? It seems like only a year ago we were making this very same announcement about the impending Annual Competition! Yes folks it is that time again where we hand over the masterpieces we’ve slaved over this year to a panel of outsiders who will view and judge them en route …
This is it folks – the final qualifying round of the annual Top Ten competition! It has to be said that the response to this year’s competition has been disappointing with just twelve, yes TWELVE entries over the past four rounds. We know some people leave it to the last minute but we didn’t …
OVFM Conquers Kent Film Festival 2013!! by Mike Shaw Members of Orpington Video & Film Makers collected three major trophies and a commendation at the prestigious Kent Film Festival (held Saturday 28th September, in Canterbury). The winning films were ‘Steam and Smoke’ (Best Photography) by Sam Brown, ‘Village Mosaic’ (Kent Award) by Barbara Darby, ‘Enid …