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

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 entries he selected the top 50 and put them on-line

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 will be. But… HOORAH! More will follow soon. Chris Jones

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 that still had vacancies, namely a budget hotel in Mougins,

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 of the winning 50 screenwriters is credited, and every film

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. It is worth just noting what a promo reel is

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 soundtrack to a very cool indie movie than a competition

‘Never Forget’ by LCB Films enters festivals
Never Forget is a short, part of a british competition and if it wins will be part of the feature film “50 Kisses“. It is also the first film I directed and was a director of photography (yes both at the same time). As you may have realized by now, it is a big deal

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 dependent on when they can and can’t come into the

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 Lesbian Film: What 50 Kisses Means to Us at MakeLight

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 see who performed better as hitman and target. Back in

From 50 Kisses to 2 Pages a Week by Robert J. Lee
“It’s like not being able to enjoy your weekend because you have homework to do.” That’s how I described running my blog Two Pages a Week recently to a producer. A feeling I think most of us can relate to but one to which I willingly subject myself every week. Last year I wrote a

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 made the final cut.Each and every one of the films