Symi Film Festival
Or, the Symi International Film Festival to give it its proper title. Here’s a quick update:
SIFF update Saturday Noon. There have been 37 films entered so far.
Five Feature films
Three long-short movies (over 20 mins)
The rest are shorts.
There have been 10 entries from Greece (nine of them short films), five from Iran, plus others from around Europe, Benin, Algeria and Kazakhstan. The next deadline for entries is 14th August with entry fees ranging from $2.50 US to $15.00, depending on conditions as set out on the web page. The final deadline for submissions is 24th, August, with fees from $5 to $20.
If you know any filmmakers who might be interested in submitting, the Film Freeway page is here. https://filmfreeway.com/festival/SymiInternationalFilmFestival And you can reach the Festival’s Facebook page here.
Today’s photos are from Pedi on Saturday evening when we went down to have supper with some friends there. (Thank you!) We walked down and back, there was quite a breeze blowing in the early evening which calmed later, making for a pleasant walk, though still a hot one. Sunday dawned bright and clear, and I heard the soldiers singing the national anthem as they raised the flag at eight in the morning. If you are on Symi on a Sunday morning and up and about in Yialos, you will be able to see them perform this ceremony as they do it every week. You will no doubt hear them too.
I have a week ahead with nothing yet in the diary until Sunday. Marvellous. I have a new writing project to start on, and another one to finish, both will take me the next couple of months, so I shall be pretty busy. I am also planning some long morning walks, but as I am always planning them, I shouldn’t hold your breath.
Site may be hacked – it’s not!
If you have Norton security on your computer, you may get a message about
If you have Norton security on your computer, you may get a message about www.symidream.com saying something about the site being hacked. It’s not. I’ve checked twice with the server folk who, unlike me, know what they are doing and they have found nothing wrong. They say:
“Unfortunately there is very little you, or we can do to remedy something like this. Sadly we have no control over what Norton flags as bad or potentially bad, so we don’t have a way to ask them to “remove it” from their results if that makes sense. I do not see anything out of the ordinary with the site, nor does my browser warn me of anything malicious when visiting that link or the site itself. I personally would not worry about it, but of course, I understand where your concern is coming from.”
Thank you to everyone who has reported it to me. Apparently, there is nothing to fear. There is a link somewhere on the ancient Symi Dream site that needs to come off as it leads to a ‘page not found’ error, and that’s all the problem is. Finding that link and removing it is, however, something of a task. I’ll see if I can do it. Meanwhile, we’ve not been hacked, and there is nothing malicious here.
