Sadly, we discovered of the passing of Keith Sayers earlier this month. A former movie buff and member of the Shoreham Film Club, Keith joined SDFM in 1989. A tv and sound engineer by commerce, he prefers the technical facet of filmmaking, usually working as a sound engineer behind the digicam, lighting or on movie. He was the cinematographer on SDFM’s first movie, the psychological thriller Night Encounters, which was produced within the fall of 1989 and gained the Albany Film Festival the next 12 months. In November 1989, he recorded dialogue for SDFM’s second characteristic movie comedy, The Laughing Stock.
When SDFM moved into the Ferring Village Hall membership room in 1991, a few years earlier than the membership had video projectors, they put a set of 22″ TV receivers (outdated sq. fashions) within the room, permitting extra and extra Members to observe screenings of video motion pictures.
Still a movie buff at coronary heart, Keith left SDFM a few months later with one other ex-Shoreham Film Club member, Ian Wingate, to start out a small movie membership in Brighton, though he recurrently serves as varied SDFM the judges. these years. Keith then turned lively with SERIAC (IAC’s Southeast area) and turned editor of SERIAC News. He can also be an lively member and committee member of the annual Sussex Film Festival and manages the sound and screenings of movies in competitors at each festivals.
When he died in hospital from pancreatic most cancers on February 15, he was dwelling alone in Brighton, however his cousin Carol was with him. He additionally has a niece.
Let’s hope the festivals he was a half of find yourself staying in his reminiscence. Bottom – Keith (third from left) on the 2022 SERIAC Film Festival final October, from left – Jonathan Wilde, Mike Wyman, Keith, David Finn.
