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
Acting in ‘Colton’s Big Night’ by Alex Williams
I’ve been interested in acting and filming for a while, and had been looking for roles and auditions for films,programs and anything that would help me with acting and give me a real experience of what being on set and performing on camera would be like, so i started getting some background extra roles and
50 Kisses.. join me at the crossroads of this feature film project
Nine months ago I had an idea for a competition to get screenwriters writing, filmmakers connecting with writers and making films. We had no budget and no sponsors, but it seemed like a good idea. So we did it. The result was 50 Kisses, which we have taken further and more openly than any script
Making ‘Colton’s Big Night’ by Camille Sainsbury
After reading all the scripts, I chose Nathan Gower’s ‘Colton’s Big Night’ because of its comedy factor and the interesting Colt character, which would give me another opportunity to direct a child actor. Also, its interesting to explore the perspective of children and how they interact with the world around them. For ‘Colton’s Big Night’ I
The Last Supper… SD Disaster! By James Cookson
As soon as I read the idea for the 50 Kisses filmmaking challenge I knew I wanted to be apart of it. Of all the scripts I read there was one that really stood out, Richard Greens “The Last Supper”. Unfortunately like most projects I work on in my spare time, I left the shooting
Writing A Ghetto Punk Romance by Llord Morgan
I’ve been putting off penning this blog post for a while. Self-reflection isn’t a skill which I exercise very often, but here goes. I first encountered Chris Jones at Bournemouth University during the Southern Screenwriting Festival. The lecture was framed around Chris’ experience with his short “Gone Fishing” and shooting for an Oscar. Afterwards, I
Writing ‘Other People’s Kisses’ by Gabriella Apicella
Late on a cold evening in March, I encountered the woman who inspired “Other People’s Kisses”. She was drunk, miserable, homeless and clearly in need of help, and in my semi-inebriated state I decided to try and help her. That night she slept on a bed made from spare blankets and cushions in a pair
50 Kisses The Feature Film Enters Post Production
Last night I worked into the wee hours with editor friend Simon Reglar, planning the post production process for 50 Kisses. Simon is an old pal who worked with me on Urban Ghost Story before pursuing a career as an editor – he is currently wrapping up on Merlin for the BBC after which he
Making Love Letters by Sue Whiting
A snog, Valentine’s night, a two minute script – easy. So what on earth made me think of setting it in an optician’s? No idea. Various stuff filters through the murky quagmire that is my brain: sunsets, violins, roses, impossibly handsome men… stop. The practicality button clicks on and all images are dumped in the
The making of ‘Smasheroo’ by Anne Misselbrook
I read all 50 scripts with my ‘Producer’ hat on knowing that due to my very limited budget, I could achieve a film at fairly short notice, with one location and with a minimal number of actors. In other words it was the accessible location, low number of actors and low financial cost which determined
Playing a Hitman by DJ Donnelley, in ‘The Moment’
Evan asks, “How’s your Irish accent, and would you kiss a guy no tongues?” The text came through on a sunny California Saturday morning. After working with Kerry and Evan Marlowe on their first feature project, “Blood Rush,” I have to admit, I wasn’t as surprised as I should have been at his request, or
‘The Nearness Of You’ – creating WW2 with NO budget by Sam Heydon
Why did I choose to make, “The Nearness of You?” Well, I was very impressed by its insightful, sensitively drawn script with a story that drew me into an authentic historical setting and kept me guessing until the end. I knew that the actresses could work wonders with the superbly crafted dialogue and well, the
Writing Smasharoo by James Howard
I found 50 Kisses via Twitter, where I usually just read and write jokes. (I once tried to write a comedy with another Twitter humorist, but didn’t get past page 30. Maybe two-pagers are more in line with the short attention span of social media mavens.) The concept of the contest intrigued me. I knew