Con­grat­u­la­tions to team Puppy Guts who have only just gone and won the grand final of the 2008 48Hours film com­pet­i­tion with their dance short F*DANCE, mak­ing them the first Wel­ling­ton team to do so.

F*DANCE is the tale of a bad-ass fin­ger dan­cer (you know, when you make dance moves with your fin­gers) who loses his mojo and must learn the hard way how to fin­ger his way back to the top.

The film impressed the judges enough to make it to the Wel­ling­ton finals, and was a Peter Jack­son wild­card pick (oo-ooh!) for selec­tion in the nation­al finals.

So what impressed the inter­na­tion­al judges? Was it the humour? The fin­ger dan­cing? The spe­cial effects? Or was it the splen­did mont­age train­ing scene that fea­tured a gruelling fin­ger-run up the Civic Square steps?

Well, whatever it us, team Puppy Guts have done us proud.