To all of those I met and became friends with through the FFF, I must say a heartfelt thanks. I learned more about film production through this forum than through any other source. It’s sad to see the forum come down, but it seemed past its glory days for sure. I shall always remember the kind individuals that read my scripts, offered feedback on my effects tests, gave me advice about all kinds of topics, and listened to my own ramblings as I tried to coach others on their way to success. To all of my friends on the “other side of the pond” I want to thank you for your friendship. You darn Yanks were good friends too, and this isn’t the end of such friendships, just a change of venue. I expect to hear from all of you when you make it big. Good luck to everyone in all that you do. If you ever need to get in touch with me, just google my name. It’s unique enough for you to find me. Take care all.

Mike aka ovjamaica

I’m guilty of drifting away in recent years but I always thought of the FFF as a great community of people. I’m still active in no-budget filmmaking and many of the skills and techniques that I use were learned from my friends on the board.

Jason, thanks for taking on the time and money burdens to host the board all these years. If anyone wants to keep in touch with me or collaborate on a project, please feel free to email me at kwkspectre@yahoo.com.

Though I was only a member for about five years, they were a crucial five years, and in them I became an adult. With you people’s companionship, I grew from a fanatic blathering idiot to a nihilistic, muttering idiot, and for that I am thankful. From Utah to London, and probably some others outside my limited geographical knowledge, I made many true friends that I would not otherwise have met. They have enriched me, and, I like to think, I have enriched them even more, as I think we can all agree I was the coolest of all of us, and also the sexiest.

Except, perhaps, for Wondernerd.

With everlasting love,
C******** Ninja
CN
Ben

Been here as MysticTrunks and NomAnor for.. geez, must be 9-10 years now. Always enjoyed you guys and gals and even the only crappy SW fan stuff i tried back then. An amazing ride and great place for info from the ever famous Wondernerd.

Take care everyone and as Roland of Gilead would say, “Long days and pleasant nights to ya.”

Mike

Wow I was shocked to come here and find this. I am saddend by the removal of the FFF and Hate to see it go. I remember the old ez board days when Japeth ran the place. I would be more than happy to take over the hosting and administration of the board as i have the bandwith and space to host it.

I was very sad to be redirected to this page when I typed fanfilmsforum.com into my browser. I’ve made some friends and received a lot of good advice and the small amount I was able to give back hopefully helped.

Palamedes, your forum became my go-to site when other forums lost the ideals of what fan films are all about. Thanks for all of the blood, sweat, tears and cash you’ve put into the site. It’s made my writing and filmmaking better.

To the friends I’ve made, It is my sincere wish to stay in touch and hopefully collaborate on projects. While I don’t get to make as many as I’d like, I got my son involved in filmmaking, and now I’m also the VP of a film festival, thanks to the info I learned from you.

I’d love to hear from you. Drop me a line at jp@stunodpictures.com

Just found out about this. Haven’t been here in a long time but made a lot of good real life friends in the process. This site helped us to learn a lot about film making. I don’t think we could have even started our first project without this site.
Pal – you did an amazing thing for a long time by keeping this going, but as you said, it’s time has come.
Green Jello – signing off.

(….ok. It´s true it was a bit dead but still, ((

I will miss you all guys. I moved into VFX and 3D because of this forums and now it´s my job.
Latest job —> http://www.vimeo.com/7311642

If anyone raises another similar thing please give me a heads up.

A million thanks to Pal. You are my hero, bud.

Sad to see it go…but it had become a shadow of it’s former self.

I started off with FanFilms here and on TFN….the Fan Films Golden Era. Met some people that stuck as (true) friends.

Peace out, everyone.

Oh my gosh! I hadn’t checked the forum in a long time. I first met up with all of you when I was just a young lad. I think I was 13 or 14. I learned a lot there, and everybody really helped me enjoy video, the internet, and my youth. Such a strong community back then.

I eventually drifted away as school took more of my time and I started running around with some kids in town. Right now, though, I am in my last semester of film school at Columbia College Chicago and I think I owe all of you at least a little bit of thanks for fanning the flame when I was just starting to light the fire. You all rock!

And Jason (Pal), I still remember when you took over as the forum’s chief custodian. What an undertaking.

Y’know, when I look around today at sites like Vimeo and Youtube – sites I use often – I think back on what we were all doing and I think, really, we were a step ahead. We needed the community back then because we didn’t have the tools. Now the distribution and collaborative tools are available and communities are forming around them! It is a truly exciting time for creativity.

I invite any of you who remember me, or even those who don’t but want to get to know me, to join me on Vimeo. My profile is linked above.

I wish you all the best! I have such fond memories of our time together apart.

-Chris

(cbales)

I too drifted away. I got busy with life.

But I miss many of the people on here. A big chunk of you were around when I was still high school – and that was a long time ago.

Hit me up on my facebook or send me an email and I’ll let you know what I’ve been up to!

-Jen
Zayn_angel@hotmail.com <—this is my spam email so it might take a bit for me to reply, I'll send you my real one then

At home I was able to have a look with web.archive.org and found a bunch of old names I’d forgotten:

Jedi_Rory, Saint Storyteller, Kreve Streak, Jedi Roara, goddess, Darth Brass, Tater, Han_Duet, Jareth Dakk and Tcheb.

Remember ScottMiddlebrook? and Dorkmanscott, and who can forget DMAN. KepowOb, and EdgeofNowhere. There was Anrev, and Bryan, and Crunchy, and sledgeweb.

I remeber Pszabo99, Xecuter666, Andrew Breecher, Jarn Tal and Khyron.

So many names. So many memories.

The FFF was the first message board I ever joined! I started reading back in the ezboard days when I was just beginning to explore the world of video. I was just a kid, and it was great to interact with a community of people who all had the same budding interest.

I ended up going to college for Digital Media, and had some great experiences working with video, animation, and compositing for class projects, and on an internship where I helped to start the video program at Philly.com/The Philadelphia Inquirer. I get to create a lot of multimedia at my current job (and do some corporate video, and even some animation).

I owe a lot of who I am as a content designer today to my infancy at the FFF. I don’t think I was ever huge poster, and didn’t really get too far with the projects I was working on at the time, but I certainly learned a lot of basic film making skills, terminology, and a lot about the film making process–and a lot of other knowledge I still use almost daily.

Jason, and everyone else from the old days: Thanks for helping to facilitate such an important part of my upbringing, and for building the foundation of my career!

Jeff Haines
(aka Galax –I was such a huge nerd!)