South Downs Film Makers

David Allen’s film for the Albany competition, ‘Please Stay for the Raffle’, has completed post production and is scheduled for previewing to the club in early April. (Below: On set with director David Allen, actors Peter Cornwell and Jim Anderson, and cameraman Mike Spanton). Due to circumstances beyond our control, filming on Alan Cross’s production […]

2nd – 10th February Colonnade House – Creative Hub presents a new mini festival Films on the Gallery Wall. Showcasing projects and films by some of Worthing’s most exciting organisations, the season offers an opportunity to find out about the wonderful work these groups do as well as the opportunity to see some fantastic works […]

The recent stories and scripts evening at the club brought forth a superb response from members with a fascinating and varied array of scripts and story synopses being put forward. Some of the scripts may well be filmed by individuals, others will be made as club productions, but all films made will require the assistance […]

PRODUCTION NEWS by Brian Meetens, Film-making Co-ordinator November 2017   Lots of new club films are in various stages of production. Post production on Alan Eyles film ‘The Curse of McCarthy’ is nearing completion and the film will be ready for screening early in the New Year. David Allen’s version of Elephant in the Room is […]

Film festivals are definitely like buses, you wait ages for one then two come along together. This was certainly the case with the recent Inter-Club competition at Surrey Border Movie Makers at Farnham, and the Sussex Film Festival, at Wivelsfield Village Hall, Wivelsfield Green. The Surrey Border competition was held on the evening on Friday […]

MOVIES WE’VE MADE The forthcoming club evening on Wednesday 20th September is your opportunity to be transported back in time to a land of laughter and thrills; to a time when we used to make films on actual photographic film, and to the early days of South Downs Video Club, when we still had to […]

PRODUCTION NEWS by Brian Meetens – Film-Making Co-ordinator July 2017 David Allen has scripted a humorous club film suited to the Albany theme of ‘Elephant in the Room’ and is expecting to film it during a club evening in October. Ever busy David is also working on ‘Parlez Vous’ described as a saucy comedy for […]

Roy’s Reflections Another busy month has gone by. Alan Cross has been busy with our publicity and has attracted another potential member who hopefully will be joining our ranks, and Bob has been busy putting our name out there with external film shows. What an enjoyable club meeting we had with Mark Jones followed by […]