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

Unbearable…
“What was I thinking?” “Why did I think we could pull this off?” “I need to be at back work in 6 hours…” “I wonder if they’ll have bagels on set tomorrow morning? All these things were rattling through my head going into the 14th hour of the 2-day shoot. I was so exhausted from

Enough by Simon Straub
The first desicion we had to make was choosing a script. It was rather easy because we had certain limits, no money, not much time to prepare and the cast had to be easy available. “Enoungh” gave us all that. A simple but strong story, we did not have to change locations and the actors

Close Encounters at 1.15am…
So it’s 1.15am and I look over to see the shop manager looking sleepily at the clock. I had told him we’d be finished filming by 11pm and we’ve still got a couple of shots to do. I look at the crew but they’re working flat out – as they have been for eight straight

Shooting ‘A Ghetto Punk Romance’ on RED Epic
I heard about the 50 kisses competition through a friend and decided to read a couple of scripts out of curiosity. When I read Lloyd Morgan’s “Ghetto Punk Romance” I instantly felt inspired. It was one of those moments that you can’t quite descibe. To put it simply, I couldn’t let myself step away from

And the winnner is…
So the votes are in and we can now reveal the top ten scripts for 50 Kisses. The winner will be revealed at the London Screenwriters’ Festival next week. So to be clear, this is just the best screenplay award. There will still be awards for best film which could go to any of the

A German Dream Date
We chose Dream Date because we found the script charming and witty. We could relate as parents to the storyline, and as filmmakers, well, we are all about the humour. So far in our films, we tend to stretch ourselves and try new things. So of course we wanted to change an aspect or two

What Do Writers Do? By Peter Carruthers, writer and filmmaker for ‘Never Forget’
As soon as my girlfriend told me about 50 Kisses, I knew I was going to go for it. I’d never entered a writing competition before but this seemed like a no brainer to me. 2 pages? Anyone can write 2 pages in a month, right? My girlfriend keeps encouraging me to write more and

Standing with giants: Guest Blog by Shaun Bond
I have seen a worrying trend in some of the short film competitions I’ve seen over the last few years, where creativity loses out to high production values and polish. Often this is because the competition is held by a company looking to use the film for self-promotion and wouldn’t know creativity if it clubbed

Q and A with Sweet Home Films’ Evan and Kerry Marlowe
How did you hear about the 50 Kisses Competition? Kerry: I met Chris Jones back in 2004 at a barbeque at Ealing Studios. He was talking about his book ‘The Guerilla Film Maker’s Handbook’ and how to be an independent film-maker, this information has stayed with me and helped in every production I have worked

No Excuses
Maureen: For a filmmaker, I always find myself making up excuses not to make films. ‘I don’t have money’, ‘I have to work a full time job’, ‘I don’t have time’. I went to film school thinking: ‘I can write, but I can’t direct’. I came out thinking, ‘Ok, I get what directing is about,

Jo Buckman on her RomZom ‘You Used to Bring Me Flowers’
It’s this funny thing being known mostly as a Producer rather than a writer. Truth is I write a lot. I’ve got a drawer full of short film scripts ready to go, a TV pilot, a documentary and a feature outline. It’s just that while I’m creative, I’m also a born organizer: I’m very practical

The 50 Kisses competition changed my life by Nathan Gower
There. I said it. In all its seemingly hyperbolic glory, that first sentence is completely valid and one that I will stand by, regardless of whether or not I ever have the pleasure of seeing another of my scripts make it on the “big screen.” Let me give you some context. From my earliest memories