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Reminiscing

 - Jim Beach on making Wind Beneath my Wings

Making From Rails to Sails

 - Margaret Chamberlain on making an AIFVF Certificate of Merit winner
New last month: Applauding the Cecilias  - Joyce Axelrod on making her NAMMA winner

Commitment

 - James Webber on making the AIFVF winner

Dave's Dawgs

 - David Fuller on making his NAMMA winner.

The Long Dark Way

 - Susan Sybenga on the creation of her NAMMA winner

Trading Wax for Gold

 - Jim Beach on his NAMMA winner

Guitars

 - Harry Ledermann on the AIFVF Certificate of Merit winner

Club Revival

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About AMPS
AIFVF festival
American Festivals
An audience of millions
Animation Software
Art & Craft of Subtitling
'Auto' is not enough
Blending stills and video
Brevity is the soul of wit
Brick Films
Camera Support
Carrying Kit
Changes
Club revival
Commentaries
Create a website
Don't Ape the Pro's
Family Films to Last
Festival Officers' Pet Hates
Festivals around the world
Filming in Egypt and Jordan
From Fast-Forward to Play
Get Going !
Going Tapeless
Home Movies
International Edition
Interviews are Inevitable
James Whiffin young filmer
Kiss, critical mass ...
Life after indie rejection?
Links
Love Filming - Hate Writing
Marking Movies - judging!
My Regretful Movie Scenes
NAMMA competition
NordFilm - the way ahead?
Oklahoma Movie Makers
Outreach
Perfect Public Show
Production for small clubs
Promote and publicize
President's Corner
Reading Critiques
Simple Slide Shows
So You Want to Make a Movie?
Sound Sense
Sound Thinking
Special Subjects in Comps
Start a Movie Club
Stuck With Publicity
To script or not to script...
Travelling with new technology
What's the Hook?
What we do wrong
Who we are
The making of ...
Agent 12
Ann and Celeste
Commitment
Hemianapsia
Overtime
The Long Dark Way
Trading Way for Gold
Will Ye Go to Flanders

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* sound editor
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Music/Sfx Sources
Specialist Organizations

Tech tips ...
* batteries
* close-up lenses
* FireWire
* lens cleaning
* marking cables
* microphone boom
* nd filters
* polarizing filter
* super-dolly

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