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Great List Stu, lots of great films in there.

Here’s my List, with a totally differnt format haha

Winner
Hero by Blood and Bone

Could Still Win This Thing
Baby on Board by Dragon V Mouse
My Cousins Missus Carpooling partner and the Red Cards by Team Hindsight
Cushy: A Pull Story by South Jersey Ghost Research

Finalist’s
Erik & Leo by JAGBOG
Isolation by Little old Lady Productions
Dumb Cult by No Budget Ninjas
Utka by Poutine Wolf
PC High by Submission Impossible
The Spares by TBALC
The Wish (Hopefully nobody else picked that title) by Toot Toot

WILD CARD - Personal Hopefuls
Shank’d by Cactus
The 3 Undateables by M3 Merrin School Movie Makers
Stanley & Mildred by Foreign Objects

Rounding Out The Night’s Entertainment
Cooking with Sea Men: Monsters of Rock Special - Featuring Kitty Chow by Aron’s Anal Lube Vacation
Altar by COA: Rogue One
Close Encounters of the Bird Kind by CRAB CRAB CRAB
A Slice of You by Rip Focus
I’m Gonna by 11 Creative

Way to go Christchurch, Great stuff.

Nice list, Strange. I remembered not to reveal your true identity :)

I did notice that you excluded your own film. Always so modest.

I had the beginnings of a list like this and it was pretty much identical to Strang just with a couple of my personal hopefuls switched out (eg. PlanetFoxFilms "There was a way" and Moofestations "Natalie and Gregory"). Looking at these titles makes me glad I'm not gonna be in that room deciding which 15 are gonna make it. Exciting stuff!!

in reply to Mista Teas:

I probably could have included it under wildcard - personal hopefuls. ;)

Just want to thank you guys for your review output again. For me, you are one of the key benchmarks through which I compare our films to others, plus there's always nuggets of advice and observations that we carry forward year on year. I'm pretty disappointed we didn't get into the Top 25 and follow Strange's very welcome nod, but we'll be back next time ...

So we didn't make it, but had heaps of fun. Check it out:
https://youtu.be/n8QJ2Sy4pLY

in reply to BigRay:

You were in my 28. I really found it hard leaving it out.

I've long since given up hope of ever getting into the finals. Still, I would never make something I wouldn't be happy to watch again or show others. This year was a fun experiment to see what would happen. I really feel some of those veteran teams aren't pushing themselves hard enough
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in reply to Joel_Tempero:

Looking at these titles makes me glad I'm not gonna be in that room deciding which 15 are gonna make it.

Which you can now have a crack at. Don't be afraid...

in reply to mikedensem:

Mike. I just want to say I absolutely loved your film! I said so in my review that if you don't get a nod for best script I will be gutted. The concept was excellent and execution was great and the dialogue at the end would have given Neil de Grasse Tyson a run for his money ;) Well done.

in reply to Clayton Hiku:

Thanks for that.
We thoroughly enjoyed the weekend so we consider ourselves winners already.

Of Mr Teas' list, 14/15 of his top 15 and 5/10 of the top 25 (Total of 19/25) correct predictions. Even gave himself a cheeky nomination, well deserved! Congrats to everyone!

And for the record, Rowan had 13/19 correct. Interesting to see if all of those end up being the ones that make the finals when that's announced.

Quick show of hands, what does everyone think of the new shortlist thing?

in reply to Bloydd:

Quick show of hands, what does everyone think of the new shortlist thing?

While my initial response was "Huh?", right now I'm choosing to reserve any further judgement, until I get a better idea of how it's received by the competitors at large, especially those who make the top 25 but not the top 15.

(For example, for those 10 teams, is this going to be liked and helpful because they'll get a better sense of how close they came, to help them calibrate their efforts for next year? Or will they just feel a bit dejected coming off the tease of being a possible finalist that never eventuated?)

(And if I end up being one of those 10, I'll be sure to let you know the flavour of my ennui.)

I'm also curious to see how many of the not-top-25 teams upload their films for public viewing. If those numbers are markedly up on previous years, I guess that will be a decent tick in the PRO column for this new system.

Even gave himself a cheeky nomination, well deserved!

You haven't even seen my film, Seigan!

Quick show of hands, what does everyone think of the new shortlist thing?

Love it! Ask me again when the 15 finalists are announced.

I'm also curious to see how many of the not-top-25 teams upload their films for public viewing.

Last year in CHCH 43 films were uploaded to the Screening Room out of (according to the reviews site) 95 films, (excluding a few MIAs). So about 45%. Surely that can be beaten. Only 12/15 finalists are in the 2017 Screening Room.

what does everyone think of the new shortlist thing?

For teams outside the top 25: Keeps the momentum/hype of the 48Hours weekend, being able to watch films from heats which you couldn't attend or from other regions. Allows films to be uploaded earlier, more reviews can be written, get feedback for next year, etc.

For teams in 11~25: Gutting definitely once the finalists are announced, but as TheNimbleMarmoset said, it gives those teams a future goal for next year's competition. These are generally the teams who are active in the community through the forums, facebook, and review site. This is healthy for the competition, I think, on top of AJ's reviews (For Christchurch at least), the quality of films can only get better! slight bias maybe being in top 25

For teams in top 15: Not much of a change imo, the "tier 1" films from that year are mostly determined after heats presumably.

You haven't even seen my film, Seigan!

Its good to see an new up-and-coming team such as Everything Sticks in the competition! Exciting to see the growth of the team in future years! \s

I like the idea.
I don't think being amongst films 11-25 would be too gutting. It would suggest that you are close and being considered.

in reply to SempaiSquitny:

For teams in 11~25: Gutting definitely once the finalists are announced, but as

Huh? Do you mean 16~25? I don't understand.

in reply to Mista Teas:

Do you mean 16~25

Yes, my bad

in reply to Strange:

Rounding Out The Night’s Entertainment

The ol' gap filler Eh... :(