South Downs Film Makers 2010 Results SUSSEX FILM FESTIVAL      FanFare - The Comedy Trophy THE ALBANY                         Safe and Secure  - The Albany Editing Trophy and the Syd Mitchell Trophy BIAFF                                     The Missing Peace - 3 Star Award SERIAC  FESTIVAL               The Missing Peace -  Highly Commended Certificate. GUERNSEY LILY                   Safe and Secure - Commended 2009 SUSSEX FILM FESTIVAL      The Missing Peace received a Highly Commended Certificate. GUERNSEY LILY                   The Missing Peace was awarded a Highly Commended certificate.   Competitions The Missing Peace Many congaratulations to Howard Johnson for his well deserved sucess in the Sussex Film Festival with his films "Land of the Schuttig" which won the Sussex Challenge Cup for Best Film of the Festival and also the Travelogue Trophy and "Fat Elvis" which won the Pathfinders Sound Trophy. Well done Howard! Kind Regards, Judith and Chris.      What a successful festival South Downs Film Makers enjoyed on the 9^th October.. Ten club members were at Wivelsfield Village Hall to see a much improved programme of films.      The club was awarded a Highly Commended Certificate for our entry “Brotherly Love”, and won The One Minute Trophy for “Mutual Satisfaction”.  Congratulations to everyone working on these productions.      The real winner was our very own Howard Johnson who was awarded The Travelogue Trophy for his film “Land of the Schuttig”.  He also won The Pathfinders Sound Trophy for “Fat Elvis”.  However, his greatest achievement was to win The Sussex Challenge Cup, for the best film of the festival for “Land of the Schuttig”.  Many many congratulations to Howard on winning these awards.      South Downs members also won three of the raffle prizes.  I felt that the standard of the films shown was better than last year overall.  It was good to see so many entries from young people.  Their brains obviously work differently to ours, but their imagination knows on bounds and bodes well for the future of amateur film making.             Fred Clarke The Club won 4 trophies and 5 certificates. Each of the trophies came with a certificiate and the extra certificate was a Highly Commended award for 'Brotherly Love'  - An SDFM Production The remaining Trophies and certificates were 'Mutual Satisfaction' One Minute Comedy  - An SDFM Production 'Fat Elvis' The Path Finders Sound Trophy  - An HJ Production 'Land of the Schuttig' The Festival Travelogue / Holiday Trophy  - An HJ Production 'Land of the Schuttig' The Sussex Challenge Cup  - An HJ Production The Sussex Film Festival 2011 Ferring Cup  2012 1st Prize   “Life`s a Circus” by Chris Hodson 2nd Prize “Florence” by David Porter 3rd Prize “Millenium” Child by David Porter Hot Shorts 2 minutes 1st Prize “At the end of the day” by Judith Webster 2nd prize “Words” by Fed Clarke 3rd Prize “Mince Pies Anyone?” by Richard Godfrey Hot Shorts 1 minute 1st Prize “Back to Front” by Howard Johnson 2nd Prize” At the Doctors” by Brian Meetens 3rd Prize “Missing Donations” by Bryan Cox Competition Rules General Competitions Click here Hot Shorts Click here SDFM SERIAC 2012 results The Club was awarded the Orpington Comedy Cup for “Mutual Satisfaction” Congratulations to all those involved. Having previously won the One Minute at the Sussex Film Festival this short film has done very well in competition this last year. BIAFF 2012 Results Congratulations to:- Eileen & Richard Godfrey for gaining 2 stars for their film “ The Roman Shoe” Howard Johnson with 3 stars for “Land of the Shuttig” and 4 stars for “Fat Elvis” Chris Hodson, John Guile and David Porter for their film “Life`s a Circus” which was entered in the name of SDFM. To win any stars in this British & International competition is no mean feat, so well done to all the above film makers. Their certificates will be presented at the BIAFF festival being held in Weymouth over the weekend 13th to 15th April. Judith Kenny SDFM Competitions The Club Competition Results  2011 The Ferring Cup                                 Winner  Stella Colter for “ The Passion Play” 1 Minute Shot                                     Winner Fred Clarke  for “ Beneath the Waves s”  2 Minute Shot                                      Winner  Bryan Cox  For “ The Poker Game” Holiday Competition 2011 1. The Land of the Schuttig                 Howard Johnson 2. Florence                                          David Porter 3. Venice                                             Stellar Coulter Theme to a Poem 2011 1. Wedding Poem                                David Porter & John Guile ( I cant believe I`m marrying my Grandma`s Paper Boy) 2. A Soldier`s Lament                           Howard Johnson 3. Words                                               Fred Clarke   For comments on Chichester Challenge 2011 Christmas Competition 2010 Chichester Challenge 2010 The Albany 2010                             Click here The Albany 2012 Results The club film “Ding Dong Well”made by John Guile won the Albany Editing Trophy. See Club Talk for more comment Themed Competition 2012 1st Prize “Bloomsbury Byways” by Judith Kenny Holiday Competition 2012 1st Prize “Cyprus” by Richard Stockwell The Christmas Competition 2011 This year`s winner was David Skertchly with his film “EXCELSIOR” Here are the judges` comments:- We were quite intrigued by this story and initially were not sure if it was a serious documentary or a tongue-in- cheekspoof. We all enjoyed this film with its mix of old documents, photos and cine together with modern video showing the model 'Excelsior' in action. The story had a beginning, middle and end with good shots of the model railway all nicely put together by good editing technique. The commentary was clear and we thought the Welsh music suitable, with the levels of voice, music, effects and live sound being well balanced, except for one burst of music and the opening fanfare which started rather loudly and this can make the operator reach for the volume control. This video definitely has replay value and we note that it has also been uploaded to YouTube if anyone wants to see it again.