The Wellington finals of the 48 hour film competition went much later than I'd thought they would. They started at 9, which was late anyway, then it had two breaks in it that could have been shorter. This is only a problem because it was Sunday night. On a Saturday it would have been fine.
The winner was Chip and Manny, a buddy film from out heat. It also won best use of "Please don't do that" and banana prop. I was pretty happy for them because I like the movie but the guy (director?) who stood up after they'd won the thing acted like a complete ass and then I was angry. He seemed unimpressed that they'd won and then during his thanking he said "the music was relaly good too, but you probably didn't hear it because you were all laughing like shitheads."
Real nice. The producer seemed nice though...
I was hoping for Rangimoana's Magical Mystery or Forbidden Fruit to win. Magical Mystery came second so that's great but Forbidden Fruit didn't get any recoginition despite getting the genre of mockumentary exactly right. (It was a 60 minutes style investigation into the growing B problem. B being a drug made from banana skins.) It was fantastic and some of the dialogue was hilarious. They even had a helicopter shot!
The kids with the pretentious art film got audience choice from our heat so their film was shown even though they weren't in the finals. It was great to see it again! I laughed just as hard, and nearly cried.
Other films I enjoyed were the splatter film Virgin Territory which was spot on and just fantastic. Great use of the red scarf, which started out white but after the herione writhed around in blood it was red. Genius.
Besy Lee the bogan musical was great to see again, and they won best original music which made me happy. There was a horror film called the Pool which starred Cliff Curtis and Danielle Cormack which was beautifully shot but made no sense and a very good Disney Family Movie which unfortunately had no story. They basically made the start of a family movie, but it was fun and silly and had a great song and dance number and some very impressive film tricks; the main conceit being a gun that made copies of things being turned on the friendly mad scientist who invented it.
It was a nice wee collection of films and I'm glad I saw them. I just wish I could've slept in today.
Posted by jenni at May 30, 2005 10:26 AM