DATE :
NOVEMBER 2nd PLACE : St Nicholas Church Hall, LANARK,3pm ITEM :
STRATHCLYDE FILM
EVENT
REPORT BY: BRIAN
SABERTON
The 2008 Strathclyde Film and
Video Event attracted
entries from Dundee Camcorder Club, Perth Camcorder Club,
Largs Videomakers and newly formed group, XDL
Films.
The films are judged by the members of the participating
clubs. Taking account of the scores of individual members, each
club has a maximum of ten points to divide among any or all of the
films other than their own.
The JOHN
COLEMAN TROPHY
This years’ theme was “Job Done” and strong similarities in the
story’s were evident with two movies even having much the same
opening sequence. This was quite by chance and very alarming for the
film-makers concerned as, for a time, each thought the other club
had done the same story. Three of the films featured garden sheds,
perhaps not surprising as the general theme seemed to be that of
hen-pecked husbands being “encouraged” to do jobs around the
house.
The standard of the films was relatively even this year so
marking was quite close but when the votes had been counted the
outright winner was recently formed group, XDL
films with their movie “The House Sitters”.
The total scores were as follows:
XDL Films:“The House Sitters”12
points
Dundee Camcorder Club: “Cutting Edge”10
points
Perth Camcorder Club:“A Bridge Too
Far”10 points
Largs Videomakers:“The
Fixer”8
points
After the break,
Scotland’s
entries in the IAC Mermaid and Mini Mermaid competitions were screened
followed by a final selection from the annual members competition. The
Mermaid entries were Molly’s
Miseries by Dundee Camcorder Club and Driving Parents Mad by Pat
Lawrence and although the films did not win the competition it was
reported that they had both been well received by the
audience.
To round off the day Norman Speirs screened “Heatwave” by Alan
Atkinson of Rugby. This imaginative film won an
IAC Diamond Award plus the award for humour in BIAFF 2008.
The theme for the 2009 Strathclyde event is “Blue”
