Resources, Documents, Downloads, Ideas

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 scored those films.

The downloadable Information Sheets below (all in tables in Word .doc format), have been prepared using information supplied by film societies and may help inspire some ideas for your programming.

If you have questions, please email:

admin@fvfs.org.au

Or visit the contact us page

Don’t have a StarBox?

Contact us and we’ll send your first one for free (Your second will be $20), but you must be affiliated with the FVFS.

How to calculate the StarBox score

At the end of the film, each member takes a plastic counter and places it in one of the 5 slots of the StarBox — according to their own overall score for the film (Slot #5 is the top score of 5 stars and slot #1 is just one star.)

The average is then calculated by …

• counting the “votes” cast in each slot,
• multiplying each count by the number of stars represented,
• totalling all calculations and
• dividing by the total of all votes cast.

The result should be emailed to starbox@fvfs.org.au as soon as possible after each screening.

Annual compilations of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
StarBox scores you can download.

The Constitution & “Supplementary Rules” of the FVFS