Most Recent 50 Kisses Updates

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Dream date filled with unforgettable memories.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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50kKisses - a video featuring the phrase "50k kisses".

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.

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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

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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 latest project to adopt the form is 50 Kisses, a

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What I learned producing 50 Kisses by Gail Hackston

I can’t even begin to tell you how much producing 50 Kisses has enriched my life. But I also must tell you how much a pain in the arse it has been too! Like all film projects the buzz of the start quickly fades when you are knee deep in contracts at 2am and find

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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 completion with nearly two thousand scripts submitted, one hundred and

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50 Kisses Audience Awards Arrive: Reflecting on ‘Beryl’

As we package up the audience awards for 50 Kisses, it has caused me to reflect on the strengths of the winner, ‘Beryl’, written by Sarah Page and made by Capital City. What struck me at the premiere was just how much the audience loved the film. I knew it was good, but I wasn’t

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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 have lovely trophies for you both and we will be

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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 people turned out for our little premiere, which was perfect

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