Most Recent 50 Kisses Updates

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50 Kisses – Where are we now?

So, we’ve been quiet. You cannot fail to notice this. Truth be told we grossly underestimated how much time and effort the post production and tie up process would take for 50 Kisses. Why? Well, for one we have a team of volunteers and are

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Dream Date BTS

Cool slideshow of BTS images from their shoot for Dream Date, from Makelight Productions in Germany. Very cool. Another Kiss? Here’s some related posts 50 Kisses ~ The Contest ~ The Feature ~ The Premiere in Houston, Texas by Laura Koons Yes We Made The

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Making ‘The Moment’ (twice) By Anthony Carpendale

Better late than never… Four months past the deadline, I’m wheezing to the finish line with my take on popular 50 Kisses script, ‘The Moment’. Actually, two Moments as we filmed two complete versions, our talented actors Noel Bateman and Terence Drew swapping guns to

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Make the most of your 50 Kisses film

The 50Kisses competition has entered a quiet period, as those in charge of creating a feature film consisting of many separate and, often, very different short films beaver away at the seemingly impossible task. Roughly 130 films sit idle, waiting to hear whether they have

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50 Kisses has all been about “Taking Chances”

The making of 50 Kisses has been a long road.We’ve learned a lot as we have travelled from script competition, to film competition to post production. One of the things we have been pleasantly surprised by is the amount of engagement and affection for the

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50 Kisses Edit Update

We have been working away on the edit of 50 Kisses and we have had to batten down the hatches in order to get it done. And we still have a long way to go. Sadly, we still cannot reveal the shortlist as that will

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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained, by Jonny Evers

Part 1: How It All Came About This whole thing started when I attended a scriptwriters event back in June. Props must go to Euroscript, who host them for free every couple of months, as an incentive to sign up to their courses (which, to

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50 Kisses Music Challenge

50 Kisses post production is in full swing and we are looking for some songs for both the end titles and the trailer. Are you a composer? A songwriter? A band? Do you know anyone whose work would fit in 50 Kisses? Or someone who

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Writing “That Good Night” by Kenneth Lemm

I am still dazed by the experience afforded by the 50 Kisses competition. I stumbled across the competition quite by accident, and immediately envisioned the story I would set out to tell. It was one of those moments when later asked ‘where did you get

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Editing 50 Kisses… The Team Assembles

After my post a few days ago about the future of 50 Kisses, and after much consultation, deliberation and thinking, we have some announcements to make. Many of you contributed to the blog post – and we were blown away by the passion, commitment to

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Writing Poster Boy by Tracey Flynn

It was said to me recently, “You’ve been at this a while; about time you saw some success.”  “This” being screenwriting, which I have been “at it a while,” but I realised, after stewing on this comment, that the writing is only part of it.

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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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