Today we had a good meeting! We had an update about money for Oska Bright 2011 – good news – we’ve only got to get another £2,300 and our Festival is fully funded. I think that’s really good news in these difficult times! Stephen fedback about his work with the Picture This Film Festival in Canada during February – it looked like it was really cold there! Whilst he was there he picked up some awards for our film “The Beach Hut Film”, and for our friends at Earthbeat who made the great film, “The Piano”.  He presented a screening of the Oska Bright Films from 2009 – he had some really good things to say about the Festival – and he looked dapper in his smart suit!

Then we talked about Australia and we looked at our blog on Tumblr. This has been an easy and accessible way of keeping people informed about what is happening with Oska Bright – and we’re going to keep going with it. The address is www.oska123.tumblr.com  - please have a look and see what we are up to.

The really exciting thing about today was that we started to look at all of the films that have been entered into Oska Bright 2011 – there are 154 of them all together – and we began to judge them. It was hard work – but it’ll be worth it when we put the Festival on. It’s very rewarding!

We are going to do a screening of Australian films at Oska Bright 2011, and a screening of films by young people and a screening of digital media films. We have decided that there will be a total of 11 screenings at Oska Bright 2011, that will be a lot of films!

I’ll come back to you with another blog next week – so you can see how we are doing!

Matthew Hellett