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Audio Visual National AV Championship
NAVC 22nd Championship Key Information
Welcome to the National Audio Visual Championship (NAVC). This year marks the 22nd NAVC and this will take place at Leeds Trinity University on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September 2022. The 22nd in 2022 has a nice ring about it doesn’t it.
In addition, there will be a Special NAVC AV Show on Friday 9th September. “The Magical Mystery Tour” is an evening of Beatles themed AVs from a selection of AV producers and featuring “The Fab Four”.
On this page you will find all of the key information about the Championship including key calendar dates you need to remember. We very much look forward to receiving your entries and seeing you in Leeds in September. After a three year wait, we hope that you are as excited as us at the prospect of a live AV event where we will see and hear AV Productions as they are supposed to be seen and heard.
Calendar
Entries can be received from: Monday 18th July 2022
Closing date for entries: Midnight on Sunday 21st August 2022
You can book to attend the event from: Monday 18th July 2022
Closing date for booking to attend the event: Midnight on Sunday 4th September 2022
Dates of NAVC: Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September 2022
Results emailed and published on website: Week Commencing 12th September 2022
Rules
Please read and digest the Rules by clicking on Rules Link below.
Entry Form
The Entry Form is available in Word format and PDF format - click on links below
Attending the NAVC
To attend the NAVC, the Booking Form is available in Word format and PDF format - click on links below
Contact the NAVC Organisers
If you have any questions, please email the NAVC Organisers at: rpsavgroup@gmail.com
Medals
1st - RPS Gold Medal
2nd - RPS Silver Medal
3rd - RPS Bronze Medal
Photo Harmony – Specialist Interest Group (SIG) Medal
Judges Choice – Specialist Interest Group (SIG) Medal
Judges Choice – Specialist Interest Group (SIG) Medal
Pollock Medal for the Best New Entrant
Ribbons
Highly Commended – 3 awarded RPS Ribbons
Commended – 3 awarded – RPS Ribbons
Judges’ Mention – 3 Certificates
Audience Vote
The Best New Entrant is defined as someone who has never won an award in a National or International AV Competition, and does not hold an AV distinction from the RPS, PAGB, FIAP, IPF or APS or other national photographic association.
Judges
Ian Bateman FRPS MPAGB AV-AFIAP APAGB
Ian retired to Exmouth in 2015, and in recent years has been both Chairman of Exmouth Photo Group and President of the Western Counties Photographic Federation. He started making AV sequences in the mid-1980s, initially with slide/tape before pioneering digital methods in the late 1990s. In 2002 he was the first person to be awarded a Fellowship in AV with a digitally-projected panel. He has lectured and judged AV events all over the country and abroad, and was Chairman of the RPS International AV Festival from 2009 to 2014. He is currently on the RPS Film, Digital and Multimedia Panel as AV Specialist.
Sheila Haycox ARPS MPAGB/AV EFIAP
Photography has been my main hobby since 1986 and belong to a couple of clubs in Devon plus AV Groups. I am a past Chairman and also past Secretary of Exmouth Photo Group and now their webmaster. Over the years I have gained distinctions in both prints and AVs. I have two ARPS Distinctions, one in prints and one in AV and was very pleased to be awarded an MPAGB for my AVs in 2016 and now find that I am doing more and more in the AV world and am pleased to have gained several awards with some of my AVs. I thoroughly enjoy making AV sequences and doing presentations to clubs which are usually a variety of different genres, as I like to offer something for everyone, which could be documentaries, humour, photo harmony and nature.
Alan Tyrer ARPS DPAGB/AV
I have had success at many regional, national and international competitions. I have also enjoyed judging at all levels and giving AV presentations to interested groups. I have been successful in achieving distinction awards from the RPS, PAGB and FIAP. I also served as Secretary of the RPS AV Group for six years. I believe that photography and AV should be valued as an art form and that the job of a judge is to encourage everyone to develop their best work. This is a great hobby and an entertaining spectacle.

NAVC Archive
List of NAVC Champions from 1980 onwards
1983 Results
1989 Programme
1991 Programme
1993 Programme
1995 Programme
1997 Programme
2003 Results
2005 Results
2007 Results and Programme
2009 Results and Programme
2011 Results
2013 Results
2015 Results & Programme
2015 Venue & Accommodation
2015 Images & Comments
2017 Results
2017 Programme
2017 Rules
2017 Images
2019 Projection Programme
2019 Results
2019 Rules
2019 Information
A History of the RPS National AV Championship produced by Malcolm Imhoff for the 2015 event can be viewed by clicking on the photo below.