Martin McDowell's Blog

This was the third Slovene annual Skydiving Film Festival and it also coincided with the first freefall Skydive Photo Festival. It took place yesterday, December 8th 2006 at the KMŠ (Klub Mariborskih Študentov). I had the pleasure attending last year’s festival and this year it proved to be even better. The ambient was great and the program started albeit a bit late, with a performance by a Didgeridoo musician.
After that came the introduction from our local chechen father Christmas who was followed by our local Bovec “representative” widely known as Gams. He seemed to be sharing the similar voice characteristics as is stage predecessor.

Then came the projection of the films, 9 in all. They were shown in the same sequence as they registered with the organizational committee. The films were not to be longer than 10 minutes and what we saw way very very good so deciding on the best three was very tough. After registering point on special cards and counting the point after the projection the results we in.

1. Ni nam lahko, by Maja Šalamun and Petra Jerebic
2. the film by Boris Pečnik (don’t know the title, sorry Boris)
3. A je to… by Vesmin Kajtazovič

Unuch also organized a donation for the http://www.padalstvo.com/ (Slovene skydive portal). The winners from the Photo Festival were also announced however I think the award was given to all 5 finalists. Oh yes, I almost forgot the Film Festival awards. It was one year’s subscription to the Slovene Playboy. After that it was partying till morning – for me it was to about 2 AM.

Thanks to all who helped with the Festival, especially to Emil, Tomaž, Darja, Matej, Gams… (please forgive if I had forgotten anyone. Additional names can be added upon request – a nice cool difference the web has compared to printed stuff).

Na photo on top of the pages takem from the KMŠ website