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The Legacy - a film by Ann and Arthur Fletcher
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Latest Meeting
Thursday, 25th June, 2026
AGM
Our last meeting before the summer break took place in a hot meeting room on June 25th. Our AGM went off with the usual fun and reports on a bumper season for SCMM. Once the new committee were appointed we watched an exciting trailer for members Ian Reed and Paul Fielding’s latest film ‘In The Dark’, which will be shown next season at SCMM. We ended the evening with a Q&A after watching member Rik Langan’s ‘A Mile In My Shoes’, a romantic short filmed almost entirely in one shot.
Thanks to everyone that has attended meetings, got involved in making films and contributed to the season. Lots happening over the summer so looking forward to next season already, starting in September 2026.
Thursday, 11th June, 2026
Member Films of the Year
Thursday June 11th at SCMM saw our Films Of The Year Show, where members get to showcase their best films made over the past season. We had 14 films shown, with over 25 members being involved in the making of them. Some films were from this years challenges, some from members own projects and even some behind the scenes and AI creations. Overall a fantastic evening and a wonderful showcase of what SCMM members have created this year.
Thursday, 28th May, 2026
Ian Reed Lighting
SCMM member Ian Reed gave a very informative presentation on lighting. The content was wide ranging including technical aspects of light, explanations of on screen examples of how to light various scenes, and some demonstration of physical lights that he’d brought with him.
The second half of the evening was devoted to watching two films, with discussion. Those films were Steve Jakab’s ‘Replacement’ which uses AI, and so the discussion led on from Steve’s presentation on AI. The other film was ‘Cat and Curtains’ which was made by a crew of SCMM members for Phil Harvey. SCMM member Robin Slater explained some of his choices in the edit, providing members with very helpful principles of editing and including pace.
Thursday, 14th May, 2026
Steve Jakab’s AI Presentation 2026
SCMM member Steve Jakab brought his third annual presentation on Artificial Intelligence to our meeting on Thursday 14th May.
The strides that AI has made in just two short years, are quite astounding. Steve put on a very insightful talk exploring the capabilities of AI for script writing, formatting, storyboards, character looks, pictures and film. Whether you fear AI or embrace it, it’s here to stay and it’s just getting better and better, faster and faster.
Thursday, 23rd April, 2026
Black and White Challenge
A packed varied evening of members films at SCMM latest meeting. We had 9 ‘challenge’ films, then a ‘one shot movie’ from a previous challenge, a short documentary on the ‘Heath Bookshop’ and some promos made by SCMM for the Sutton Coldfield Royal Variety Show
Thursday, 9th April, 2026
BFF at SCMM
We had the pleasure of welcoming the Birmingham Film Festival founders Kevin McDonagh and Dean Williams to our SCMM meeting this week. Both seasoned filmmakers and with the festival heading into its 11th year, it was a great evening as they chatted and took questions on how they started out, created the festival and talked about the future. This years festival starts on November 6th and SCMM are hoping for its usual strong showing in the selected screened films
Thursday, 26th March, 2026
Belief Premiere
Last Thursday night was something of a different type of meeting as SCMM descended on Highbury Theatre in Sutton Coldfield for the Premiere event of member Julian Austwick’s latest film, Belief. The evening was filled with speeches, dancing girls, the films first showing and a Q & A with cast and crew.
Thursday, 12th March, 2026
Marion Chittenden and Patrick Woodcock
At our meeting on Thursday March 12th, we had two excellent presentations. First up was one of our newer members, Marion Chittenden, who showed a film about her filmmaking journey. Marion is an experienced producer, who talked us through University, her visits to the Cannes film festival and her year at SCMM, where she has produced three short films.
Second up was long time member Patrick Woodcock with a fascinating presentation about comedy including a look at the history of humour and he showed some clips from his own comedic short films. Patrick had his film ‘Beans On Toast’ selected for the Birmingham Film Festival in 2023.
Thanks to both for an entertaining evening.
Latest News
SUTTON COLDFIELD MOVIE MAKERS was presented with a "Life Time Contribution" Award at Birmingham Film Festival 2025
Latest Club/Member Film
A Mile In My Shoes
Script written by SCMM member Rik Langan. Produced by SCMM member Fiona Dunn. SCMM member Julian Austwick also part of the crew.
