Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
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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 …
OVFM Annual Dinner Friday 28th February 2014 – 7pm for 7.30pm It’s time to break out your glad rags as OVFM hits the local eateries for the Annual Dinner! Once again the venue is the Change of Horses, 87 HighStreet, Farnborough Village, BR6 7BB. The price will be £20 for three courses …
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 …
Hello again! One of the more popular and fruitful facets of our club calendar is the club project, where we set a theme and see what short films you clever folk can come up with pertaining to that theme. To kick off 2014 we give you the topic “Silent”. What does that mean? Do …
What ho fellow filmmakers and I hope you are geared up for the festive season! On that note we have received this request from Tom Carrell of RSA Films: “Dear members of Orpington Video And Film Makers, Ridley Scott Associates (www.rsafilms.com), and director Toby Dye are making a documentary film project celebrating the rich and …
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 …
OVFM ARCHIVE NIGHT Once again we give you the OVFM club members the opportunity to look back on the fifty years of films in the club archive and relive some of those moments from yesteryear. With such a time span of material to behold there is a wealth of footage not been seen by …
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 …