Time to get your creative on New Zealand   5 Jul 2016

48 Hours Film Competition

New Zealand’s largest and longest running short film competition is back for it’s 14th wildly successful year.

The newly named HP48HOURS is now back and stronger than ever. The renowned national guerrilla filmmaking competition continues to get entrants from far and wide, from school students to professionals, to teams of mates who just want to spend a mad weekend going ape together. Two of NZ’s most successful filmmakers have both previously endorsed the event with Taika Waititi (Hunt for The Wilderpeople) saying of his time participating in the event -

“You never have that amount of fun and freedom in any other filmmaking environment. It is really good for creativity”.

Sir Peter Jackson the competition’s Wildcard judge made note of the events ability to uncover great talent in the Ministerial review of the New Zealand Film Commission that

“The 48HOURS organisers, have the knowledge about who the passionate and skilled new filmmakers are.”

This year the event has formed a long-term partnership with HP, a company known as the real power behind the film industry. Event organiser Ant Timpson was over the moon about the new relationship with HP stating that –

“We are incredibly excited about working with HP and showcasing the next generation of filmmaking talent. HP are the power behind the scenes of the industry and it’s a major step forward for the competition to have them onboard”.

Maddy Simpson, Head of Marketing for HP NZ -

“We can’t wait to kick things off with Ant and the team at HP48HOURS. This home-grown competition is a wonderful example of New Zealand’s practical and creative spirit, which we want to continue to enable through our innovative technology and HP Workstations. The motion picture industry has transitioned to digital cinema with the help of HP Workstations. HP deploys rapidly to enable film-makers to capitalise on creative opportunities, and to shorten time-to-market for productions. HP48HOURS will offer the NZ film industry a behind-the-scenes look at the techniques for creating stunning visual effects including 4k production and discuss how they take full advantage of the performance and reliability of HP Z Workstations powered by the world’s leading processors and graphics cards.”

Early bird registrations for New Zealand’s largest filmmaking competition were open from July 1st but only last til July 30. The shoot weekend is set for Sept 16th, and when the clock strikes 7pm on the friday over 10,000 people nationwide will begin their 48 hour odyssey to write, shoot and edit a short film to put them in the running for becoming Grand National Champion. Thousands of dollars in cash and prizes are on the line for the best of the best.

As always, HP48HOURS is about unearthing the next great storytellers of NZ and igniting their passion for filmmaking. There is a good chance they are still likely to still be at school. To help encourage more than just 1 team to enter from a school, all school teams from around New Zealand get two team entries for the price of one.

- Early-bird registration, 10am, Friday, July 1 – July 30
- General registration, 10am, August 1 – September 12

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