Most Recent 50 Kisses Updates

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

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

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

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

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

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

How I Learned To Love Again by Baz Hodson
So, where are we at these days?! It’s 18 months down the line from the wrap on my short film ‘A Kiss Goodbye’ and we’re now on the final PR push for 50 Kisses, which after a long haul has got its BBFC 15 certification

Brazilian filmmaker Carolina Rodrigues shares her 50 Kisses Journey on Youtube – WATCH VIDEO BLOG
How one filmmaker made their first film, against all odds, and it was part of 50 Kisses! Carolina shared in an email ‘“50 Kisses” and “Never Forget” not only reminded me of how much I really love bringing images to life, but also taught me the

Do you as a filmmaker or writer involved in 50 Kisses want to see it play at festivals?
What Shall We Do With 50 Kisses AFTER the Premiere? An open question and a few words of tough love. We have a number of things we can do with 50 Kisses after the premiere. First, we could release it on the internet free. This

How 50 Kisses Gave Me My Filmmking Mojo Back
I had decided to give up. Movies. Filmmaking. Writing. The lot. I was spent – in every sense of the word after a feature film that I had been working on passionately for several years as the writer/director crashed and burned 3 weeks before shooting

50 kisses – The Moment… by screenwriter Stephen Cooper
I still find it crazy that ‘The Moment’ has created so many different opportunities and previews of life ahead. Through this little two minute script and the 50 kisses competition I have seen my idea come to life through a number of fantastic and exciting

50 Kisses on BBC London with Sunny and Shay
Last night I spent an hour on BBC London with Radio hosts Sunny and Shay, discussing film, music and of course 50 Kisses. This came right off the back of 50 Kisses Training Day on Saturday. Around 60 filmmakers and writers involved in 50 Kisses,

The Final Cinema Version of 50 Kisses Is AMAZING!
This afternoon I headed into Soho to watch the final DCP (Digital Cinema Package) at SDC for ‘50 Kisses’, alongside a journalist friend who writes for, and reviews films, for the broadsheets. His reaction? ‘50 Kisses significantly exceeded my expectations…’ I won’t say more till

Writing Love Songs by a Hopeless “Realist”
I wrote the song “Good” while living in NYC, with most of my thoughts and songs ranging from the love-lost scorn to the revengeful strong woman to the forever young anthem of taking on the world. When I wrote “Good”, however, I let myself wonder

50 Kisses: Making The DCP part 2
I have just retuned from a visit to the office of the lovely people at SDC who are making the DCP for 50 Kisses. I know a great deal more about the process of making one now and plan an extensive blog on the matter

From London to New York with 50 Kisses
I little expected, when filming Rob Burke’s LOVE script in the London Underground, that nine months later, I would be on the New York Subway on route to see our film screened at the Tribeca Film centre. Also our little film, shot guerrilla style in

50 Kisses Final Mastering: Making The DCP
To screen 50 Kisses in a cinema, we need to make a DCP. This is a specific file supplied on an industry standard drive. We could make our own DCP using OpenDCP (low budget and a little risky), but the lovely people at Soho Digital

Don’t miss out on the big publicity opportunity at the 50 Kisses premiere
Are you trying to build a reputation as an independent filmmaker, writer, actor? Are you on social media? If you are, then you’ll know the currency that photographs have – especially pictures of you and your friends/family at your premiere would have. We will have

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 together for them. The film is played in slow motion

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 online, download an MP4 (for your own device) and embed

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 page 165. My script Last Chance was one of those

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, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Junior and Stan Lee.

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 Book Of World Records today, now in its 60th edition.

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 Cut …or as I like to call it 50 Kisses

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 ‘Love’ for this North American premiere and by all accounts

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. You would think you could just use the scripts, but

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 7th 2014. We’d like to invite you to attend our

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 are outstanding and I am really amped that we have

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 is going to play on an iMax screen