Most Recent 50 Kisses Updates

Listen to the filmmakers and screenwriters ‘chat track’ for ‘50 Kisses’ and find out how they did it
We released ’50 Kisses’ online last week and today we are releasing the official DVD chat track for the movie. On this version of the film, over 30 of the filmmakers and writers discuss their experiences of ’50 Kisses’ and just how it all came

50 Kisses Will Premiere Online on Xmas Day 2014
Following the news that 50 Kisses has been rejected from Sundance (thanks LA based Marlowes for chasing it), we can announce that there is no reason to hold back the movie from the internet. On Xmas day, you will be able to watch 50 Kisses

50 Kisses Success Story from Nick Grills
The other day I was at work doing my boring supermarket job when I looked across to the book section and saw The Guinness Book of World Records 2015. It gave me a surge of excitement to know that I had some small part of

50 Kisses in the Guinness Book Of Records
I just got my copy of the 2015 Guinness Book Of Records and can confirm that yes, 50 Kisses is listed on the bottom right of page 165 in the movie makers section. We are in very good company sharing the page with Steve Spielberg,

50 Kisses on London Live with the World Record
As with most media exposure, you get a call, jump in a cab and 30 minutes later you are on TV – and it happened again just now, with 50 Kisses being featured on London Live to help publicise the launch of the new Guinness

Phil Peel takes 50 Kisses to the Rhode Island Film Festival
50 Kisses with extra Love wows America Well that was quite a journey.. From filming our short film Love in London …to Edinburgh, New York, Genesis Cinema, and finally Rhode Island International Film Festival. …and being applauded by 3000 people. 50 Kisses – the Directors

50 Kisses wins the Rhode Island Film Festival
Great news, 50 Kisses has won the Rhode Island Film Festival in Providence, RI. Filmmaker Phil Peel and actress Holly Jacobson (from the segment ‘Love’) were there to collect the award on all our behalf’s. We actually created a ‘directors cut’ of 50 Kisses reinstating

Closed Captions and subtitles in 35 degree heat for 50 Kisses
We have been working hard for the last few days creating subtitles / closed captions for VoD platforms. Hannah Mark who is working with us right now has been stuck in a tiny office, diligently working through the film with a program called Subtitle Workshop.

50 Kisses selected for the Bay Street Film Festival, Ontario
We just got this email about the Bay Street Film Festival in Thunder Bay, Ontario! Congratulations! Your film 50 Kisses has been officially selected for this year’s 10th annual Bay Street Film Festival in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The festival runs from September 3th to September

50 Kisses Gets North American Premiere at Rhode Island Film Festival
GREAT NEWS! We have a North American Premiere for 50 Kisses at the prestigious Rhode Island Film Festival! Site HERE. Dates: August 5th to 10th 2014 This is a GREAT festival, I went about five years ago (video blog here) – the venue and audiences

50 Kisses on Turkish TRT TV
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50 Kisses on BBC WM with Noreen Khan
Tracey Flynn, screenwriter of Poster Boy and Anil Rao, filmmaker of Neil, both joined me for a chat on BBC West Midlands Saturday Radio show with Noreen Khan ahead of the screening tonight on the Giant Screen here in Birmingham. It’s still quite amazing that

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

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

10 Things I gained from from writing ‘Nothing Ventured’ for 50 Kisses By Nina Haerland
When I entered the 50 Kisses script competition, I hadn’t written anything for quite a while. I wasn’t even sure if I would again – but when I saw the competition mentioned on Twitter, something sparked. I looked up the details, and came up with

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

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

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

’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. Everyone was punctual and from the moment I hit Play

’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 figured we could comfortably seat about 30 people and with

Fillmmaker Simon Foster on BBC Radio London discussing 50 Kisses
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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 £9,435 at east London’s Genesis cinema. Billed as the world’s

How Making ‘Romantic Hideaway’ and 50 Kisses Fuelled my Filmmaking Ambitions by Kawita Sareen
All my life I thought about making this film or that film and never actually did anything. Since being a part of 50 Kisses I have been inspired by your passion, dedication and hard work. Having completed my 2nd short I have a few more projects in the pipeline now and this is all thanks

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 one at that, a quirky one that makes you laugh,

The 50 Kisses World Premiere and Awards: A night I will never forget
Over 500 people attended the world premiere of 50 Kisses on February 13th 2014. It was a knockout event with red carpet, WamBam burlesque performers, awards, an after party and of course a movie premiere! First was the red carpet and the opportunity to get your photo taken by our professional photographers. I knew it

A Valentines Love Letter Video to Everyone Involved in 50 Kisses
Ahead of the premiere, I thought we should share a short photo montage from the 50 Kisses journey, featuring lots of the 127 films and filmmakers involved, plus music from the 50 Kisses soundtrack challenge. It’s a reminder of the scale and ambition of 50 Kisses, the global reach and just how remarkable it has

Yes We Made The Lesbian Film: What 50 Kisses Means to Us at MakeLight Productions
Over a year ago, my partner, Andromeda Godfrey, said that we should do this 50 Kisses competition. She has an uncanny intuition about these kinds of things so I always listen to her. Now we have a remarkable little film that is taking us places we always wanted to go and we have our first

Our 50 Kisses journey and one Dream Date at the Valentines premiere
Our script, ‘Dream Date’ was our first ever film script – short or otherwise. Which is why, when we found out it had been chosen as one of the fifty winners of the 50 Kisses competition, we were surprised and thrilled! The initial online feedback seemed positive enough, though we were slightly perturbed by the

How 50 Kisses has led directly to my first feature film in under 18 months by Andrew T Wright
I produced and directed one of the versions of Kulvinder Gill’s ‘Romantic Hideaway’. Our journey in making this short film, both within and outside of 50 Kisses has been extraordinary and exhilarating to say the least. With two film crews and the male lead bailing out at the eleventh hour and then our two

How 50 Kisses got me writing… and I now have a Manager in Hollywood, by Rob Burke
With the premiere of the feature length film coming up, I found myself thinking about what has transpired since that day in July, over a year and a half ago, when I found out my script, LOVE, was one of the final fifty short screenplays chosen to be part of the 50 Kisses project. Actually,