South Downs Film Makers

Our annual holiday competition was held on Wednesday 15th June with 6 entries being submitted by Irina Pitman, Alan Cross, Bob Summers, Mike Spanton, and 2 from Chris Morgan. There was a varied selection of locations and topics, including Irina’s excellent film about the controversial bronze statues ‘Children are the Victims of Adult Vices’, in […]

On 18 May 2022, members were invited to watch the screening of a feature length film made by Alan Cross and local musician, Kevin Haugh, followed by a Questions and Answers session.  Entitled For the Love of Noise, this 55 minute documentary explored Brighton’s experimental music scene. It featured numerous devotees of this little known […]

What a lot of trophies to be awarded at the SERIAC film festival held at the Oast Theatre in Tonbridge on Saturday 16th April, and we came home with quite a few of them! 6 SDFM members made their way to Tonbridge for the SERIAC Film Festival, the first ‘live’ festival for a couple of […]

Yes the BIAFF entries have been judged and SDFM’s 4 films have all won star awards as follows: Arundel – A Walk in Time – 4 Stars Tide of Light – 3 Stars Alice’s Amazing Arundel Adventure – 3 Stars Worthing Rowing Club – 3 Stars Congratulations to the ‘Walk in Time’ team – 4 […]

Roy Powell in the chair and 14 other members of South Downs Film Makers. Election of Officers: Once again, there were no nominations for any committee post.  Many of those on the committee have more than one role and this cannot continue. In view of this situation, Roy Powell suggested leaving vacant, any unfilled positions […]

On Friday 18th February 16 members made it to the Ardington Hotel in Worthing, for our Annual Lunch and Awards Ceremony. We enjoyed an excellent lunch in the Eden Room in a friendly atmosphere, and were able to present a few trophies to the worthy winners.  Several external competition trophies, won by club members during […]

The Ferring Cup competition was not held on 16th February, due to a lack of entries, but the Hot Shorts competitions were, and there was a good turn-out by members and guests. Instead of the Ferring Cup we watched 18 members films, some not seen before. The 1-minute Hot Short was won by Alan Cross […]

Yes the club has been extremely busy during December and January. Firstly we held our Christmas Social on Wednesday 15th December in Ferring Village Hall. It was a happy, sociable evening and included a fairly testing Christmas Quiz, but we all enjoyed the challenge. Our Social Secretary brought along a lovely varied buffet selection from a local […]