“V” 48 Hours National Final – Live at The Establishment

Maori Detective posterFriends, sup­port­ers and oth­er inter­ested parties are invited to assemble at The Estab­lish­ment on the corner of Blair St and Cour­tenay Place on Sunday even­ing to watch a bit of telly, spe­cific­ally the C4 broad­cast of the “V” 48 Hours Nation­al Final.

Three Wel­ling­ton films are in con­ten­tion for the big prize (and the even big­ger prize for Best Cine­ma­to­graphy): Wel­ling­ton win­ner Maori Detect­ive and the Boo­gie Fever (Team Good Times) and Peter Jack­son-selec­ted wild­cards Shoot­ing Star (Will She Wait) and Whore­Cop 3: Night Justice (The Three Dicks).

View­ers around the coun­try will be vot­ing by text as soon as the show fin­ishes – come along and add your sup­port. The broad­cast starts at 8.30 but the entire Wel­ling­ton Final 12 (plus Taika Wai­titi’s ineligible but hil­ari­ous Arab Samurai) will be screened again from 7.30 to warm you up.

Coupled

It’s been a bit quiet up here at Wel­ling­tonista Towers over the last few days, mostly because our two most recent and pro­lif­ic con­trib­ut­ors – Haydn and Tom – have been work­ing flat out on their entry for this year’s 48 Hour Film Chal­lenge.

Their hard work has has res­ul­ted in ‘Coupled’ – co-writ­ten by Hadyn and star­ring Tom, and which will screen at 5.45pm tonight (Tus­day 30 May) at the Regent Cinema.

No doubt the claims of ‘cine­mat­ic bril­liance’ are well foun­ded, so get along to enjoy this, and the oth­er qual­ity and not-so-qual­ity pieces of film-mak­ing whipped up in your fair city over the week­end.

For a full list of screen­ing times head over to the offi­cial 48 Hours web­site.

(And for more Wel­ling­ton-based 48 hours blog­ging action, check out Talula and Che Tibby (the lat­ter being anoth­er mem­ber of the Coupled team.))

Psst… wanna be a movie star?

48 Hours – Offi­cially NZ’s largest film com­pet­i­tion. Hun­dreds of teams of film-makers kick off tonight all around the coun­try & fin­ish on Sunday night. Dami­an Christie sug­gests “if you’re approached by a bedraggled film crew (the chances are high, there’s a couple of hun­dred teams around the coun­try), be nice to them, do what […]