To help you start your film society and make it a success, here is our extensive collection of Information Sheets, FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions), and various resources and documents.
Have a browse down this page and feel free to download any of the items on this page.
If you have questions or need assistance please contact us.
More: You may also like to check out further very helpful information sheets on the Australian Council of Film Societies (ACOFS) website.
FVFS Members can log in to the “members only” section of the website (go right to the bottom of the page for that) to find the FVFS newsletter, “ReelNews”, official documents such as minutes of meetings, and so on.
Film Lists — Ideas for Programming
Need some ideas on what films to programme for your film society?
One approach — just to get the ball rolling — is to have a look at what your fellow film societies have been screening and how they’ve rated those films.
The downloadable PDF’s, below, have been prepared using information supplied by film societies or relevant websites and may help inspire some ideas and possibilities.
We invite your film society to submit its list of programmed films for inclusion in these lists so that others may benefit from your experiences.
To submit your list or for information or if you have questions, please email: admin@fvfs.org.au or visit the contact page.
Where possible please let us know the …
- Country
- Year
- Source
- Rights owner (DVD) and the
- Star Rating
… for each film.
Don’t have a StarBox?
Contact us and we’ll send you one.
How to calculate the “Star Rating”?
Each film society member attending a screening gets a “counter” (a small round plastic thing).
At the end of the film, each member places their “counter” in one of the 5 slots of the Starbox — according to their own overall rating of the film (Slot #1 is the lowest rating. Slot #5 is the highest rating.)
The average is calculated by ….
- counting the “votes” in each slot
- multiplying each by the number of stars represented
- totalling all calculations and
- dividing by the total of all votes cast.
| FILM LISTS YOU CAN DOWNLOAD | ||
| # | Title | version |
| 17.1 | Films Screened by Member Film Societies in 2007 | v3 |
| 17.2 | Films Screened by Member Film Societies in 2008 | v5 |
| 17.3 | DVDs in ACMI Available for Film Society Screenings | v2 |
| 17.4 | DVDs listed on the BFFS Website 2007-09 | v4 |
| 17.5 | Films Programmed by Member Film Societies in 2009 | v10 |
| 17.6 | DVDs in the NTLC funded by ACOFS and WAFFS | v4 |
| 17.7 | Films Programmed by Member Film Societies in 2010 | v7 |
| 17.8 | Films programmed by member film societies in 2011 | v2 |
| 17.9 | Feature Films Programmed by Film Societies in 2012 | v2 |
| 17.10 | All DVD features programmed by members during 2013 | v1 |
| 17.11 | All Starbox Scores for 2014 | v1 |
| 17.12 | Starbox Scores for 2015 | v2 |
| 17.13 | Starbox Scores for 2016 | v2 |
| 17.14 | Starbox Scores for 2017 | v2 |
| 17.15 | Feature Films Programmed by Film Societies in 2018 |
v2 |
| 17.16 | Feature Films Programmed by Film Societies in 2019 (up to 1st of November 2019) |
v3 |
The Constitution & “Standing Resolutions” of the FVFS
FVFS Constitution
FVFS Standing Resolutions