Most Recent 50 Kisses Updates

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How to Crowdsource a Film: Chris Jones on the Omnibus Movie, 50 Kisses

By Randy Astle, first published on www.filmmakermagazine.com The Internet and digital filmmaking tools have opened up new possibilities of crowdsourcing material–Life in a Day, Declaration of Interdependence, One Day on Earth, even the interactive Star Wars Uncut–and given new life to the omnibus/anthology film format. The

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50 Kisses World Premeire video goes live!

On February 13th 2014, crowdcreated feature film ‘50 Kisses’ was simultaneously premiered and released in the UK. At a capacity screening at the Genesis Cinema, cast, crew, friends and family gathered to celebrate in style. ‘50 Kisses’ took just under two years from concept to

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The ‘50 Kisses’ Audience Award Goes To…

I am delighted to announce the winner of the 50 Kisses Audience Award. At the premiere, we handed out voting slips and the results are below… So BIG congratulations to screenwriter Sarah Page for her script for Beryl, and team CapitalCity for their film. We

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’50 Kisses’ Plays Gallup, New Mexico

On the evening of February 13th, here in Gallup, New Mexico, we held a pot-luck dinner and screened “50 Kisses” in the private showing room at the El Morro Theatre in downtown Gallup. A number of local filmmakers and film enthusiasts were in attendance. Twenty

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’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.

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’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

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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

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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

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50 Kisses on BBC Midlands Tonight

Today I went to BBC Broadcasting house to record a piece for the BBC Midlands article on 50 Kisses ahead of the screening this weekend on the Giant Screen in Birmingham. The interview was short, maybe three minutes. And they used only 25 seconds or so, which is all pretty standard. What it did remind

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50 Kisses in Digital Filmmaker Magazine

50 Kisses director Sebastian Solberg knows the value of PR, and has managed to secure a fantastic four page spread in this months Digital Filmmaker magazine. You can read the whole article HERE Well done Seb for keeping going – and we hope you and all the other writers and filmmakers will make it the MASSIVE

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50 Kisses Review by everyfilm.co.uk

50 KISSES / Cert 15 / 89 mins BBFC advice: Contains strong language, sex references, violence and bloody images Overall rating: 8.5/10 I have never seen such an effective collage of short films. 50 Kisses made me jump, laugh and very nearly provoked a tear and yet none of its parts amount to much more

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Chatting 50 Kisses on Colourful Radio with Pip Henderson and Jacqui Grant

[embedded content] I have just returned from a splendid conversation on Colourful Radio with actress from 50 Kisses, Pip Henderson and presenter Jacqui Grant who I met at the world premiere. Lively conversation ensued! Chris Jones www.50KissesFilm.com Another Kiss? Here’s some related posts 50 Kisses has all been about “Taking Chances” Fillmmaker Simon Foster on

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London Film Review gives 50 Kisses 5 stars at LIFF ’14 screening

To call the film groundbreaking is (really) something of an understatement, given that it was a crowd sourced film initiated by the London Screen Writers Festival in 2012, and has since entered the Guiness Book of World Records for most co-writers on a film.  After setting up the project (which was created as a non-commercial

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50 Kisses at BAFTA for Guinness World Records, the video

Just over a week ago, the writers of 50 Kisses gathered at BAFTA to celebrate the news that they had collectively entered the Guinness Book Of Records for the most co-writers on a feature film. Here’s the video of the event! Another Kiss? Here’s some related posts PRESS RELEASE: 50 Kisses enters Guinness Book Of

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Sweet Home Films Take On California for 50 Kisses

Sweet Home Films in LA have confirmed they are playing the field for the 50 Kisses community. I just got this message from Kerry… ‘We have submitted 50 Kisses to Santa Monica FF, San Diego FF, AFI and Hollywood Reel Independent FF. We will submit to Sundance too when the deadline opens in August as

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Sarah Page’s mum, came to BAFTA and wrote us a blog

Sarah Page, writer of ‘Beryl’ and winner of the Audience Award for 50 Kisses, brought her mum to the BAFTA screening. And she wrote us a blog about her experience. Here it is… At the ‘50 Kisses’ showing at BAFTA Chris Jones asked me to do a blog about the film. I admit I have

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Meet some of the writers and filmmakers behind 50 Kisses

  Candid short interviews with some of the filmmakers and writers behind 50 Kisses. Filmed at the BAFTA screening to celebrate the Guinness World Record we secured on April 4th 2014. Another Kiss? Here’s some related posts 50 Kisses ~ The Contest ~ The Feature ~ The Premiere in Houston, Texas by Laura Koons PRESS

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50 Kisses Film Festivals Update: Good news and bad news

So the bad news first. We didn’t get into Cannes. Well that was to be expected as it was really a long shot, but we had to try. Here’s what they mailed us yesterday… I have the regret to let you know that your film “50 Kisses” has not been selected for the Festival de

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50 Kisses – Together we are strong! By Tom Kerevan

50 Kisses is the first of the Create50 projects from LSWF headed up by Chris Jones and Judy Goldberg. Select 50 short scripts from almost 2000 entries, ask directors from around the world to turn them into films, then select the best finished products and create a feature out of them. 50 Kisses really is

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