of Film & Video Maker as editor/writer/graphic artist/page-layout etc. Just this morning “put-to-bed”. That train-driver is actually standing in a 1:19 scale garden railway. All clever smoke and mirrors stuff. And probably green screens.
I forgot to post this bit of nonsense film that I made last year in the IAC 48hr challenge. Featuring Shaaron Barafundle who happens to live next door. So here it is, 4 mins, 22 seconds of your life that I will have deprived you of. Sorry.
My 21st edition as editor, graphic designer and general putter-togetherer of this fine print magazine is now about to land on doormats across the UK and the world.
Congratulations to Peter F. from Wem, Shropshire for correctly identifying the deliberate error as the magazine rolled over from 2025 to 2026 but the year on the cover didn’t. As a test for our reader’s observation skills, we like to drop in at least one error, be it typo or factual with every issue. This is the first time we’ve taken this competition to the front cover.
Peter’s prize of a round of applause from the entire FVM editorial team will be issued this Thursday evening just after the Archers. Sorry, but entries for this issue are now closed
Sadly I couldn’t make it to this wonderful international festival of non-commercial film. I had to be in Ireland to fit some windows and catch covid and get a chest infection – these things just can’t wait. But here’s the cover of the brochure I made for it. UNICA hasn’t visited the UK since about the last Halley’s comet. Won’t be back until the next one either probably.
If proof were needed that I can and do scrub up occasionally… Another great weekend of films – four sessions per day, non stop Friday until Sunday evening. Gala dinner on the Saturday night and all in vibrant Brum. Oh and a load of very worthy winners. See you next year.
This is me, right. Or rather it’s my film “The Pole Liner”. So if you’re in Peckham on 14th May… Specifically, SET Peckham SE15 4NP. And in case you missed it, here’s the fillum itself: https://youtu.be/0LumR2QMd8g
*** STOP PRESS *** The Pole Liner was described as one of the stand out films of the festival. Just sayin’
My poster for a Palestine film evening in Ludlow, Sat 30th November 6 – 8.30pm
A week long event of the best of amateur film-making. Don’t read amateur as amateur here. Read it as non-commercial. Brilliant films, it’s just that nobody got paid. Films to make you laugh, cry and pull all those emotional stops in-between. Some 230 films entered, 101 of them shown during the week. Incl one of my own – The Litterator. Monday to Thursday was an online event and Friday through to Sunday evening was a the Crescent Theatre Brimingham. We stayed in the Hilton Garden Hotel right next door.
Friday night, 2 sessions of films, then four sessions per day Saturday and Sunday with the whole red-carpet Gala Dinner and prize giving done on the Saturday night at the Novotel also next door. Here I got to do the nominations and prize giving for “Best Editor” which went to Paul Merotto (France) for American Plague. A hard-hitter about the familial destruction caused by opiate drugs being pushed on to people in pain by an uncaring private health “care” system . Quite brilliant. Also at the Saturday awards I was presented with an award of my own – Fellowship of the IAC for services etc.. So in amateur film making circles I’m now Martin Evans FACI. So there.
See the online version of the brochure (made by me) here.
Produced simultaneously along with the BIAFF 24 brochure, (see previous post. 40 pages of great film-making interest. This was my 10th issue since taking the combined editor/layout artist/typesetter/producer’s job. All that artwork and with a column of my own in there it ticks a lot of the creative boxes for me.
Another year, another brochure produced for BIAFF. 40 pages full of listings, info, judge bios and screen grabs. A splendid job if I say so myself. Especially as time was so short as I was full-on producing the April edition of Film & Video Maker at the same time.
