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PRESS RELEASE - AUGUST, 2006
First International Journal of Meteorology
Film Festival
The First International Severe Weather Film Festival, organised
by The International Journal of Meteorology
http://www.ijmet.org in association with TORRO
http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/index.php will take place at Oxford Brookes
University, Oxford, England in October 2006. It will be run in conjunction with
the TORRO Autumn conference. It has evolved from the Media Review section of the
IJMet which is put together by Paul Domaille. The Film Festival is intended to
be a biennial event featuring amateur severe weather films which include footage
of hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, hail and severe winds. This year there are
nine entrants, one from the UK, two from Australia and six from the US featuring
all of the above in their extreme from the years 2004 and 2005.
All the DVDs have been or will be reviewed in The Journal and entries for the
2008 event would be very welcome. Rules of entry are quite simple, an amateur
production featuring a severe weather event or events: it could be any of the
aforementioned or several of them. "Pre judging" has taken place and the
eventual winner out of the final three will be chosen by attendees at the TORRO
Autumn conference. The audience will see short clips from all entrants longer
clips of the top three for voting on. Hopefully, if there is time, the whole of
the winning entry will be screened.
Sponsorship for the event has kindly been provided by Generali Worldwide
http://www.generali-gw.com, a multi national insurance company. This has
enabled the purchase of a trophy to be awarded biennially and a prize this year
of photographic equipment to the value of approximately £750.
There are a small number of people who make films about severe weather,
sometimes putting themselves right in the firing line of the worst that nature
can throw at them, in most cases the producers also feed back information to the
authorities to assist in damage control and also to give advance warning of
potentially life threatening situations. Sometimes data collected is used for
research purposes and for live internet broadcasts to residents in threatened
areas. All the films are for sale to the general public with some producers
donating profits to charitable organisations. It is these achievements that both
The International Journal of Meteorology and TORRO would like to acknowledge
with the organisation and promotion of the first ever International Severe
Weather Film Festival.
Grateful thanks must go to all the film producers, the judges, who represent all
the major UK online weather forums along with some professional meteorologists.
Oxford Brookes University (in particular Prof. Derek Elsom) for hosting the
event and of course Generali Worldwide for their generous sponsorship.
Further Information is available from Paul Domaille at
paul@ijmet.org or
click here.
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