AV News 184 - May 2011
Lilian Webb AIPF
A First
No, it is not the first time, nor the last time, for me to attend the Northern Ireland
Photographic Association's Audio Visual Festival. I've been attending for more
years than I care to
remember! Eighteen of us
from south of the border
attended the festival, some
after a gap of many years.
We were delighted to
renew our acquaintance
with Colin Balls & Rhona,
who had judged the Irish
Photographic Federation's
AV Festival almost 4 years
ago - in appropriately enough - Collins' Barracks! Having attended the RPS
(Ireland) AV Group a fortnight earlier, it was interesting to see how the comments
that were made then affected the entries.
Some were not shown - deciding to hold off to next year - and another left out
the effect he was going to put in! However, it was great to see entries from a
couple of members who have attended the workshops for a long time and had
not put in an entry before and some other newcomers too.
As usual, at these events, we were taken in Ballyearl Theatre to various parts
of Northern Ireland - Rathlin, Donaghadee to other parts of the world from Rybnic
to Silverstone and Clonmel to New Zealand! As usual, the Northern Ireland forte
of story telling was in abundance. As the entries were down a bit, the IPF
members were delighted to show six of their sequences on a larger screen!
Colin gave very good words of advice to each of the sequences and declared
the following the winners:
Award
Sequence
Author
Novice 1st
Ocean to Ocean
Geoffrey Cross.
Open
3rd
A Place of Learning
Jack Thompson
2nd
Nine Millennia
Ross Mulholland
1st
A Letter from the front
Raymond Hughes
Best 1st time entrant
Ballycran
Shiela Fairon
Best Photography
Frozen
Malcolm Moorehead
Best Creative Sound
Nine Millennia
Ross Mulholland
Best N. Ireland Theme
A Letter from the front
Raymond Hughes
Best Original Script
A Place of Learning
Jack Thompson
Best without commentary
Sacrifice
Mollie McConaghy
Best overall
A Letter from the front
Raymond Hughes.
Audience Vote
A Letter from the front
Raymond Hughes
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