South Downs Film Makers

The Albany is a themed film-making competition, held annually since 1966, for film-making clubs across Sussex, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire.  This year’s competition was hosted by CFVM (last year’s winners) […]

I am pleased to report that South Downs received another successful batch of awards at this years British International Amateur Film Festival BIAFF, which was held in Birmingham between  25-28TH […]

Jump Start Productions from Brighton, visited the club on Wednesday 3rd April to show their award winning film Fractured. We were privileged to have the film producer Nathalie Grace, actress […]

Wednesday 6th February saw the clubs annual film competition – The Ferring Cup. All films entered in competitions spanning the previous 12 months are eligible and are automatically entered unless […]

The club was very saddened to learn of the death of long standing member David Porter at the end of January. He had been involved with amateur film making for […]

An evening of ‘camera bashing’ took place at the club meeting on Wednesday 16th January. No not literally but a chance to hear from the experts on the merits, special features and […]

Our good friend Mark Jones entertained us in his own inimitable way on the club evening of 21st November. Christmas Past, Present & Future was his theme for the evening […]

Wednesday 7th November saw the premiere of David Allen’s amazing biopic about Shirley Western, the legendary big band singer, who has been in the entertainment business for more than 60 […]