\'V\' 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking 2008Regis­tra­tion for this year’s ‘V’ 48 Hours Furi­ous Film­mak­ing com­pet­i­tion closes in only 8 days and organ­isers are once again look­ing (some­what appre­hens­ively) at a record-break­ing num­ber of entries. 2007 saw more than 120 teams take part in the Wel­ling­ton region alone, and this year extra capa­city has been made avail­able so no one will get turned away.

There are over $100,000 of prizes up for grabs includ­ing a spe­cial Wel­ling­ton-only prize for Best Film Writ­ten or Dir­ec­ted by a Woman, donated by WIFT (thanks to the efforts of the won­der­ful Gaylene Pre­ston). While the attrac­tions of cam­era-gear, facil­it­ies vouch­ers, travel, movie tick­ets and guar­ana-infused fizzy drinks are obvi­ous, most teams enter for the sheer joy of film­mak­ing and return again and again.

Teams will shoot their films on the week­end of 16–18 May and the Heat screen­ings (this year free of charge) take place at the Para­mount from 20 May. The Wel­ling­ton Grand Final will be at The Embassy, once again, on Wed­nes­day 11 June.