Most Recent 50 Kisses Updates

Small City Canada, Big Screen Premiere
Canada is a large, beautiful country. If you haven’t been I highly suggest you someday pay a visit. When people think about Canada, the cities most likely to pop up in an Internet search are Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. Though those cities are fantastic, I

Why 50 Kisses has given my music career a boost, by Fuzzy Jones
50 Kisses has given me the boost and confidence I needed to launch my music out into the world of film. A track I sing on and wrote the lyrics for, ‘Swans’, is being used in the end credits of 50 Kisses (track below). After

Welcome to 50 Kisses Training Day, Feb 1st 2014
Do you want a free one day training course of distribution and marketing? Do you want to support 50 Kisses? Date: Feb 1st 2014 (9.30am to 4.30pm) Venue: Ealing Film Studios Price: FREE This one day event will train you in marketing and PR so

Help! I can’t make it all the way to the premiere for 50 Kisses!
I get it, for many it’s too far to come to London. While we will miss you on the red carpet, we REALLY want you to stay part of the process. Do you want to hold your own local premiere on the 13th or 14th

50 Kisses FINAL Films Revealed
I am delighted to announce that we have locked the 50 Kisses feature film – and it’s running to 90 minutes almost to the second! The team and our post production volunteers have been working through the holidays to overcome some technical challenges and get

50 Kisses… run up to the premiere
First of all, my apologies for not making the final announcement before Christmas as promised, we had some technical issues that are now resolved, and I got hammered by the flu and am only just recovering. So here’s what you need to know about what’s

Final Mastering for 50 Kisses
We are completing the final mastering of 50 Kisses right now and have hit a whole pile of technical niggles, but we have time to work through these before the premiere on Feb 13th 2014. I can also announce that ALL films that all films

Save the date! The World Premiere of 50 Kisses will be February 13th 2014
The 50 Kisses team just spent theday working out all of the logistics for getting the final movie out there in 2014. So save the date for a swanky London Premiere on February 13th 2014 – posh frocks and dickie bows! February 13th will

Rhys Howell on writing his 50 Kisses script ‘Boxes’ – interview by Michelle Goode
Then someone said, again on Twitter I think but not directed at me, that if you weren’t able to complete a 2 page script which could be made and released theatrically, how serious, really, were you about this writing malarkey? This hit a nerve with

’50 Kisses’ UK Cinema release strategy and plan…
We now have a fine cut of the movie with around 26 films included. This is still in slight flux for a few reasons, but essentially we are there. The running time is around 90 minutes. I can confirm that all filmmakers that responded to

The end titles for 50 Kisses are running at fifteen minutes!
Editor and VFX master Ricky Milling has been working hard on the end credits – and they are running at 15 minutes, complete with clips from films. It’s been quite a challenge to corral writers and filmmakers into sending their stuff, but I think we

Dream Date Cannes, Poster and Festival Update
We’ve been very busy with Dream Date over the last few months. We had this poster designed by talented Kaya Simson using the fantastic photo taken by stills photographer Veronica Trickett. We are really pleased with how it has turned out. We also took Dream

What is the REAL value in entering 50 Kisses?
When 50 Kisses offered the opportunity to be included in the making of a feature, and particularly one with a theatre release, I jumped at the chance. The concept was that Chris called for 2 page scripts loosely based on ‘a kiss’. From over 2000

50 Kisses WILL be released in the Cinema in the UK
Today we reached an exciting agreement with a UK distributor. I am not going to reveal any details just yet, for reasons that will become apparent later, and we will be contacting 50 Kissers over the coming weeks to explain ‘in secret’ what our plan

A Kiss In Cannes by Kulvinder Gill
As our registration was completed so close to the deadline, finding accommodation – let alone reasonably priced accommodation – proved to be a challenge with most hotels rooms and apartments already spoken for. In the end, we booked rooms at the first place we found

Creating the 50 Kisses end title sequence
Over the last few days, our fabulous editor Ricky has been wading through what feels like a zillion credits, and has spent days building and rendering in After Effects in order to create the end title sequence for 50 Kisses. To be clear, every one

50 Kisses Promo Released
TO LEAVE A COMMENT: CLICK ON COMMENTS BELOW We are delighted to release the 50 Kisses promo today. Please share with everyone you know on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest – everywhere! Embed on your site and get it out there for the world to see.

50 Kisses promo music winner announced…
Earlier this year we ran an initiative to find music tracks for 50 Kisses. Thank you to everyone who entered their songs. We had great fun listening to them, and were quickly able to make a shortlist. The shortlist ended up playing more like the

’50 Kisses’ Plays In Montreal, Canada
Here in Montreal we had a little get together of 18 people in my downstairs media room on Feb 16th. It was a fun evening of friends and fellow tech heads anxiously waiting to finally see the final product that was years in the making. Everyone was punctual and from the moment I hit Play

’50 Kisses’ Plays In Switzerland
I’d volunteered to host the Swiss showing, and although I couldn’t find a cinema to show the film at relatively short notice, I did manage to find an ideal space to show it, courtesy of Peter Stevens, developer/marketer of the EeBee iPad feedback app. We figured we could comfortably seat about 30 people and with

Fillmmaker Simon Foster on BBC Radio London discussing 50 Kisses
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50 Kisses HUGE Box Office Success… The numbers are in!
Charles Gant of the Guardian and first stop for all industry players looking for last weekends box office analysis just wrote in his piece on the UK box office figures… ‘Showing in a one-off screening the day before Valentine’s Day, 50 Kisses achieved a robust £9,435 at east London’s Genesis cinema. Billed as the world’s

How Making ‘Romantic Hideaway’ and 50 Kisses Fuelled my Filmmaking Ambitions by Kawita Sareen
All my life I thought about making this film or that film and never actually did anything. Since being a part of 50 Kisses I have been inspired by your passion, dedication and hard work. Having completed my 2nd short I have a few more projects in the pipeline now and this is all thanks

Video Postcard from the 50 Kisses Premiere
We are visual storytellers after all, so I thought I would create this video post card of some of the most extraordinary memories from the 50 Kisses World Premiere. For me, it’s really sinking in now – we made a feature film, a damn good one at that, a quirky one that makes you laugh,

The 50 Kisses World Premiere and Awards: A night I will never forget
Over 500 people attended the world premiere of 50 Kisses on February 13th 2014. It was a knockout event with red carpet, WamBam burlesque performers, awards, an after party and of course a movie premiere! First was the red carpet and the opportunity to get your photo taken by our professional photographers. I knew it

A Valentines Love Letter Video to Everyone Involved in 50 Kisses
Ahead of the premiere, I thought we should share a short photo montage from the 50 Kisses journey, featuring lots of the 127 films and filmmakers involved, plus music from the 50 Kisses soundtrack challenge. It’s a reminder of the scale and ambition of 50 Kisses, the global reach and just how remarkable it has

Yes We Made The Lesbian Film: What 50 Kisses Means to Us at MakeLight Productions
Over a year ago, my partner, Andromeda Godfrey, said that we should do this 50 Kisses competition. She has an uncanny intuition about these kinds of things so I always listen to her. Now we have a remarkable little film that is taking us places we always wanted to go and we have our first

Our 50 Kisses journey and one Dream Date at the Valentines premiere
Our script, ‘Dream Date’ was our first ever film script – short or otherwise. Which is why, when we found out it had been chosen as one of the fifty winners of the 50 Kisses competition, we were surprised and thrilled! The initial online feedback seemed positive enough, though we were slightly perturbed by the

How 50 Kisses has led directly to my first feature film in under 18 months by Andrew T Wright
I produced and directed one of the versions of Kulvinder Gill’s ‘Romantic Hideaway’. Our journey in making this short film, both within and outside of 50 Kisses has been extraordinary and exhilarating to say the least. With two film crews and the male lead bailing out at the eleventh hour and then our two

How 50 Kisses got me writing… and I now have a Manager in Hollywood, by Rob Burke
With the premiere of the feature length film coming up, I found myself thinking about what has transpired since that day in July, over a year and a half ago, when I found out my script, LOVE, was one of the final fifty short screenplays chosen to be part of the 50 Kisses project. Actually,