48HOURS
Encyclopedia
48HOURS is a film-making competition held through 8 major cities in New Zealand
; Auckland
, Hamilton
, Gisborne
, Rotorua
, Taranaki, Wellington
, Christchurch
and Dunedin
. It involves teams of various sizes competing across New Zealand to write, shoot, edit and score the best short film, which must be between 1 and 7 minutes long, over a single 48 hour period (usually a weekend). Developed from the US-based 48 Hour Film Project
, which was run in Auckland in 2003, 48HOURS is now a New Zealand-only event and has been running since 2004.
The event is organised by New Zealand International Film Festivals
stalwart Anthony "Ant" Timpson filmhead. Teams attend a launch ceremony from 6-7pm on a Friday night where each team is given a randomly selected genre within which to base their film's theme. They are also given three compulsory features which are common to all teams. These are a line of dialogue, a prop and a character. A new "technical" element was also included in 2010 and 2011 (a Dolly Zoom
and Freeze Frame Ending
respectively).
All creative work required to produce the film must be undertaken and completed within the 48 hours of the competition. This includes storylining, scriptwriting, filming, editing and audio mixing. Teams must deliver their finished film to the competition organisers by 7pm on the Sunday evening to be eligible for prizes, although late deliveries will still be screened in the heats.
By 2011 the competition had grown to include more than 800 teams nationwide with at least 10,000 people believed to be involved.
The grand national prize is intended to encourage the winner to produce a film project of some sort.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
; Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
, Hamilton
Hamilton, New Zealand
Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's fourth largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato Region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland...
, Gisborne
Gisborne, New Zealand
-Economy:The harbour was host to many ships in the past and had developed as a river port to provide a more secure location for shipping compared with the open roadstead of Poverty Bay which can be exposed to southerly swells. A meat works was sited beside the harbour and meat and wool was shipped...
, Rotorua
Rotorua
Rotorua is a city on the southern shores of the lake of the same name, in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. The city is the seat of the Rotorua District, a territorial authority encompassing the city and several other nearby towns...
, Taranaki, Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
, Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
and Dunedin
Dunedin
Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...
. It involves teams of various sizes competing across New Zealand to write, shoot, edit and score the best short film, which must be between 1 and 7 minutes long, over a single 48 hour period (usually a weekend). Developed from the US-based 48 Hour Film Project
48 Hour Film Project
The 48 Hour Film Project is a contest in which teams of filmmakers are assigned a genre, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue, and have 48 hours to create a short film containing those elements. Shortly after the 48 hours of filmmaking, the films from each city are then screened at a theater...
, which was run in Auckland in 2003, 48HOURS is now a New Zealand-only event and has been running since 2004.
The event is organised by New Zealand International Film Festivals
New Zealand International Film Festivals
The New Zealand International Film Festival is a film festival held annually across New Zealand throughout the latter half of the year.In 2009 for the first time the Festival relinquished its various regional names to be called the New Zealand International Film Festival...
stalwart Anthony "Ant" Timpson filmhead. Teams attend a launch ceremony from 6-7pm on a Friday night where each team is given a randomly selected genre within which to base their film's theme. They are also given three compulsory features which are common to all teams. These are a line of dialogue, a prop and a character. A new "technical" element was also included in 2010 and 2011 (a Dolly Zoom
Dolly zoom
The dolly zoom is an unsettling in-camera effect that appears to undermine normal visual perception. It is part of many cinematic techniques used in filmmaking and television production....
and Freeze Frame Ending
Freeze frame shot
A freeze frame shot is used when one shot is printed in a single frame several times, in order to make an interesting illusion of a still photograph....
respectively).
All creative work required to produce the film must be undertaken and completed within the 48 hours of the competition. This includes storylining, scriptwriting, filming, editing and audio mixing. Teams must deliver their finished film to the competition organisers by 7pm on the Sunday evening to be eligible for prizes, although late deliveries will still be screened in the heats.
By 2011 the competition had grown to include more than 800 teams nationwide with at least 10,000 people believed to be involved.
48HOURS 2007 Trivia
- 500 Teams took part
- Attendance - 8,000+ cinema admissions
- Online Web Viewings - 45,000+
- 3G Viewings - 10,000+
- TV Audience - 100,000+
- Prizes Total - $100,000+
- Annual Wildcard Judge - Peter JacksonPeter JacksonSir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy , adapted from the novel by J. R. R...
Prizes
The 2008 competition offered a prize pool of more than $100,000 including:- Cash grants from New Zealand Film CommissionNew Zealand Film CommissionThe New Zealand Film Commission is a New Zealand government agency formed to assist with creating and promoting New Zealand films...
and WingNut Films. - Camera equipment from PanasonicPanasonicPanasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd...
. - Free equipment hire from Rocket Rentals.
- Post Production services from Park Road PostPark Road PostPark Road Post is a 10,200 m² motion picture post production facility, located in Miramar, New Zealand, a suburb of Wellington. Formerly the state-owned National Film Unit, the new facility was renamed Park Road Post upon completion in 2005...
, Images Post and Auckland Audio. - And much more - view the 48hours.co.nz prize page for details.
The grand national prize is intended to encourage the winner to produce a film project of some sort.
Past Grand National Winners
- 2011 - The Child Jumpers by Team Grand Cheval ProductionsGrand Cheval ProductionsGrand Cheval Productions is an Auckland, New Zealand based film and television production company. In 2011 Grand Cheval won the 48HOURS Film Competition for their film The Child Jumpers....
- 2010 - Only Son by Team The Down Low ConceptThe Down Low ConceptThe Down Low Concept is a radio, television, and film production company based in Auckland, New Zealand.It was formed in 2002 by three cultural entrepreneurs from the North Shore who may or may not be on the down low; Jarrod Holt, Ryan Hutchings and Nigel McCulloch. Prominent NZ comedian and actor...
- 2009 - Charlotte by Team Line Men
- 2008 - F*Dance by Team Puppy Guts
- 2007 - Lease by Team Lense Flare
- 2006 - Brown Peril: The Tim Porch Story by The Down Low Concept
- 2005 - A Fairly Good Tale by Crash Zoom
- 2004 (no Grand National Winner)
- Auckland Winner: Jessie McCloud: The Journey by CLASSIC
- Wellington Winner: Heinous Crime by The Circus