48 Hour Furious Film-making competitionWell, the 48 hours are up, and the screenings get underway in Auckland and Wellington tonight.

It sounds like this years 48 Hour Furious Film-making competition was even bigger and better than last years, and with more of the teams actually managing to complete their pieces within the allotted time. About half, I recall (probably wrongly), of last years entries didn't get a finished film in - this year (with over 100 teams involved) nearly 90% of teams have managed to get something in before the deadline. Nice work.

And busy work, by the sounds of it. My minor involvement was signing some permissions for some Debris and noizyboy music to get used in the film my mates Adam and Sam were producing/directing/writing (with help from other assorted friends). Sam came over with the music release forms (and to grab my latest noizyboy mixes - loath as I was to hand over the mixes without twiddling with them for another hour or two), and told us a few tales of the chaos so far. Painting his car black (so as to resemble an old-fashioned police car) with matte paint and plain old house paint-brushes was my favourite bit of sacrifice-for-the-cause.

The official deadline was 7pm on Sunday night (things got underway around 6pm on Friday night), and Perkins Productions had their entry in with time to burn. Well, a bit of time to burn. Enough time, anyway, to organise a decent cast-and-crew-and-helpers screening at 8pm on Robert's fantastic inhouse cinema screen (and soup, yum). I went along to watch, and totally missed the nuances of the film, listening out as I was for all the music I had contributed (which was pretty much playing for the entire nine minutes). I'll have to watch again when it comes out (as it will, surely!) on the Best Of DVD the competition organisers will be releasing after the heats and finals. It looked the business anyway - you'd have no idea it had been thrown together over a frenetic weekend by a bunch of enthusiasts and ring-ins. Marvelous!

And the whole thing got some good media coverage too - not surprising when a competition like this suddenly highlights the fact that Wellington and Auckland can, at the drop of hat, produce over 100 film and post-production crews for a weekend's work (and the infrastructure for them to be all filming and editing at the same time as well). My mate samflux got interviewed by TVNZ here, there's a good Manawatu Evening Standard article about a Palmy North team (who entered the Welly competition), and stories of trials and tribulations on the official 48 Hours discussion boards.
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