5th July 2024
Wimbledon, Tour de France, European Soccer Championship, Ringwood Movie of the Year. What a
great time to be alive; yet another time when our club gets to shine forth.
Unfortunately, eleven of our members were unable to experience the atmosphere friends and relies
had built (I counted 34 – give or take a handful or two). But, hopefully, they didn’t completely miss
out as our talents were displayed to the world through zoom. Not all the world tuned in, but
apparently twelve did.
There was no messing about. As soon as Norm had welcomed out visitors and, for their benefit,
explained how our meetings run, Joe raised many laughs presenting examples of some of the shorts
that had entertained us during the year.
Then Elizabeth, our M.C. started presenting what we had all come to see.
Over four quarterly competitions, our members had decided they liked the following movies the
best: Visit to Bergen; Family; The Journey; Expectations; The Write Stuff; Architecture that Evokes
the Divine; The Southern Star; Taiwan; Dinnersaurs; and Miranda’s Tail. BUT! Which one had been
voted Movie of the Year by the external judges? Such a variety of topics makes judging extremely
difficult – some might say impossible – so Elizabeth explained how the committee had tried to
reduce this problem by recognizing different areas in the awards. She then called on our Guest of
Honour, Heidi Victoria, a noted photographer in her own right, to present the trophies.
1st quarterly competition; Philip, for Taiwan.
2nd quarterly competition; Gary D for The Journey.
3rd quarterly competition; for Write Stuff.
4th quarterly competition; for Architecture that Evokes the Divine
There were also trophies for The Best Fiction trophy, which was won by Matt and The Best Non
Fiction trophy, won by Philip.
BUT. Who was the Top Dog? Which one was The Movie of the Year?
Our Guest of Honour presented the trophy to Gary Hegedus for Mira’s Tail.
Congratulations to Gary.
And thanks too go to our Guest of Honour, Heidi Victoria, and the people behind the scenes who
organised the refreshments to finish off another successful Movie of the Year.
And, of course we mustn’t forget our judges without whom our Movie of the Year would not exist,
so, to Colin Paxman, Mark Ward, Colin Parrot, Aylee Sunstorm and Mike Reynolds many thanks for
a difficult job well done.
Here’s to the next Movie of the Year in 2025. Gee, doesn’t time fly?
John M.
great time to be alive; yet another time when our club gets to shine forth.
Unfortunately, eleven of our members were unable to experience the atmosphere friends and relies
had built (I counted 34 – give or take a handful or two). But, hopefully, they didn’t completely miss
out as our talents were displayed to the world through zoom. Not all the world tuned in, but
apparently twelve did.
There was no messing about. As soon as Norm had welcomed out visitors and, for their benefit,
explained how our meetings run, Joe raised many laughs presenting examples of some of the shorts
that had entertained us during the year.
Then Elizabeth, our M.C. started presenting what we had all come to see.
Over four quarterly competitions, our members had decided they liked the following movies the
best: Visit to Bergen; Family; The Journey; Expectations; The Write Stuff; Architecture that Evokes
the Divine; The Southern Star; Taiwan; Dinnersaurs; and Miranda’s Tail. BUT! Which one had been
voted Movie of the Year by the external judges? Such a variety of topics makes judging extremely
difficult – some might say impossible – so Elizabeth explained how the committee had tried to
reduce this problem by recognizing different areas in the awards. She then called on our Guest of
Honour, Heidi Victoria, a noted photographer in her own right, to present the trophies.
1st quarterly competition; Philip, for Taiwan.
2nd quarterly competition; Gary D for The Journey.
3rd quarterly competition; for Write Stuff.
4th quarterly competition; for Architecture that Evokes the Divine
There were also trophies for The Best Fiction trophy, which was won by Matt and The Best Non
Fiction trophy, won by Philip.
BUT. Who was the Top Dog? Which one was The Movie of the Year?
Our Guest of Honour presented the trophy to Gary Hegedus for Mira’s Tail.
Congratulations to Gary.
And thanks too go to our Guest of Honour, Heidi Victoria, and the people behind the scenes who
organised the refreshments to finish off another successful Movie of the Year.
And, of course we mustn’t forget our judges without whom our Movie of the Year would not exist,
so, to Colin Paxman, Mark Ward, Colin Parrot, Aylee Sunstorm and Mike Reynolds many thanks for
a difficult job well done.
Here’s to the next Movie of the Year in 2025. Gee, doesn’t time fly?
John M.
