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Another year, another Kent Film Festival, and another lot of great entries, that I feel sure the audience at the Powell Theatre greatly appreciated and certainly warranted a big thank you to the many people who entered this year. Congratulations, I think are in order to the prize winners who helped to make the day so memorable, though looking at some of the other movies shown to the judges, both pre and final they certainly had a hard job on their hands. I always think judges deserve more praise. It is a hard and thankless task with more brickbats than applause and the fact of life is, without them, we would have no Festival.

The committee will shortly be meeting to see if we can make the Festival even better next year. In my opinion, complacency is, in any set up, arrogant, and we should always strive to improve our annual event and continue to help the film makers of Kent to have their movies projected onto the large screen, in the wonderful surroundings provided by Christ Church University College.

Putting aside the films, I always think these events, like the Kent Film Festival, also provide an opportunity for people with the love of film to meet and enjoy the company of enthusiasts just like yourselves. If you missed this year, or have never attended the Festival, make sure you keep an eye open for the date of the 2007 Kent Film Festival and come and join the party.

If, for whatever reason, you have never entered the Festival and feel perhaps your work is not good enough, do have a go next year. You will at least get words of encouragement from the judges, or you may see your film on a big screen. Who knows, you may win a trophy, like someone did this year at her very first attempt.

Kent Film Festival 2006 Awards

Barclays Trophy (best movie)
Remember by Reg Lancaster

Acorn Trophy (IAC club)
Bromley’s Best Kept Secret by Spring Park Cine & Video Society

Charlesworth Trophy (photography)
Rushes from Tunisia by Mike Graham

Animation Trophy
One Small Step by Colin Jones & Dick Horn

Open Trophy
Not awarded

Cornwallis Trophy (1 min.)
Animated Letters by Mike Shaw

Les Holtum Cup (documentary)
Ringing the Changes by Gerald Peckson

Les Paine Trophy (travel)
Sailathon Experience by John & Ann Epton

Vic Currie Comedy Plate
The Treat by Rita & Pip Hayes

Johnson Trophy (drama)
The Drama Room by B. Partleton & Dan Rhodes

Canterbury Cup (sound)
Car Park by Vine & Webb (Borderline)

Dennis Minett Plate
Sailathon Experience by John & Ann Epton

Best Acting Trophy
Adam Newman in The Drama Room

Maiden Trophy
Meet the Natives by Pat Palmer

Kent Film Festival Trophy
Hello by Vine & Webb (Bordeline)

Lazer Rush Kent Award
Bromley’s Best Kept Secret by Spring park Cine & Video Society

Student Certificate
Play Back by Joseph Morris

Youth Certificate
No Entries, not awarded

Junior Certificate
Kung Fu Fighting Trailer by Jake Jones

Highly Commended for Documentary
Magic Bus by Graham Evans

Highly Commended for Drama
Car Park by Vine & Webb (Borderline)

Commended
2006 – A Dry Summer by Cherie Hamlet-Smith
The Village that Died for England by Rita & Pip Hayes
The Wishing stone by Ron Jarrett
A Reassuring Light by Harold Trill

And you can check out previous results here:

2005 Results | 2004 Results | 2003 Report

Charlie Caseley

Page updated on 14 February 2008

Authors' views are not necessarily those of The Institute of Amateur Cinematographers

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