Welcoming Video and Spreading its Wings... The Surrey Film
Festival 1987.
The fifth SURREY FILM FESTIVAL was the frst to actively seek
out video entries. The problems in the past with this relatively new
medium for amateurs, was the lack of effective editing equipment and
the means to show the end result on a big screen to a large audience.
Other festivals had used large TV monitors but these were far too small
for a theatre presentation..
The theme this year was Surrey Spreads its Wings.
The organisers decided to treat the festival title quite loosely and
open up entries to all amateurs, not just those in Surrey and the
London Boroughs previously in Surrey. This created an enormous entry
and a correspondingly difficult task of judging the entries and showing
as many of the movies as possible.
Two auditoria were used for the shows, each with video
projectors and a big screen.
The story goes that one prizewinner was presented with an
empty cardboard box, as the organisers didnt have the trophy at the
time. When the trophy eventually became available, the prizewinner
never collected it!
The Festival Awards....
| 1st - Surrey Challenge Shield & Best Senior Entry |
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| Dont Mess With Werewolves | Royal Free Hospital |
| 2nd - Croydon Trophy (Best Movie). |
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| Video Nasty (video) | Warwick Davies |
| The Pilot's Tale (video) | Children's Film Unit |
| Once Upon A Time | Paul Covela |
| Video Nasty (video) | Warwick Davies |
| George Sewell Trophy for an Individual IAC Member |
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| Video Nasty | Warwick Davies |
| Derrick Seagrave Trophy for Animation. |
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| Once Upon A Time | Paul Covela |
| Mollie Butler Award (Encouragement 0f film making) |
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Into The Night - (video) | Raymond Pratt & T Curtis |
| 2nd - Best Junior Entry & TSB Junior Individual Award. |
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| Video Nasty (video) | Warwick Davies |
The Sound of Silence - (video) | Children's Film Unit
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Matchmakers
| Stephen Hargrave
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Land That Never Melts
| Tim Jones
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TV Dinners
| Tony Upjohn & Tony James
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They Say Travel Broadens the Mind- (video) | D Soulsby & S Little
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New Years Resolution -
(video) | David Tulley
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Entrants
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Of the 102 entries....
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41 were shown at the Festival
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49 were on film and 53 on video
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Last revised: 11 July 2010 © Surrey Film-Video
Festival