2026 Heats Schedule
VOTE FOR AUDIENCE FAVOURITES HERE
All heats will be screened at live screenings, and online on our Youtube channel @48HOURSNZ at the same time. This means that you can watch all the entries from across the country.
Audience voting will be available for 30 mins at the end of each heat. Online heats will be available to view until the following day.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Please note that live heats screenings are trade screenings intended for cast and crew, and aren't public events. Some of the venues have limited numbers of seats so please consider how many people you bring along to the heats.
Ōtautahi / Christchurch
All heats will be held at the Little Andromeda Theatre as well as screened on our Youtube Channel.
Location - Little Andromeda Theatre - Level 1/134 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch.
Capacity - 100 seats.
Accessibility information -
Wheelchair accessible venue - you can let them know if you have specific requirements on their website.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Heat #1 -"LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES"
Rating - PG, School Teams
Date/time - Monday 10th August - 6:00PM
ONLINE LINK - tbc
2 Fast 2 Rolleston - Exploring an abandoned prison at 3am
2 Rolleston 2 Furious - Who is Mr Pickles?!
AV-engers - Not Just a Painting
Carmen Road Academy Films - Who wrote Shakespeare?
Downz Productions - Forever Mine
Evil Olive - Rumour
Gem With Two Silent H's - Escaping From My Sins
Lewton Bus Studios - Loose Ends
Port Hills Pictures - Wanted
The Not So Clueless Crew - Ain't It Grounded
The Reel Deal - we're doing fine.
Heat #2 -"KILLERS & CANVAS"
Rating - M, School Teams
Date/time - Monday 10th August - 7:15PM
ONLINE LINK - tbc
12Characters - Room of UR
4SFuzzKatNite - Extermi-Nate
BEERCAN - a tungtastrophe
Handsome Moustache Productions - Dead Colour
Kangwoo's Angels - The Host Unknown
Rabid Dog Productions - The Clock-work killer
Media Monkeys - Intent
Maglione Mob - High Stakes
Step On No Pets - Family Game Fight
The Expendaboys - The Deadumentary
TJB Digital - Solitaire
Heat #3 -"POLITICAL PUPPETRY"
Rating - Family Friendly PG
Date/time - Tuesday 11th August - 6:00PM
ONLINE LINK - tbc
Cactus? - A.I. Dream of Genie
Dennistribe - The Mob
George and people - unbearable
Inclusive Performance Academy - Hacked Off
Lamp Post - The Deadly Extinction
Lighthouse Productions - Portait
Magnificent B - Idle Vapourings of a Mind Diseased
Members of human race - Between Us
Pegasus Films - Mission Impuppetable
Pīrere and the WiFis - Unforgiven
Provocation Azadi - From Dad
Heat #4 -"WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN"
Rating - M
Date/time - Tuesday 11th August - 7:15PM
ONLINE LINK - tbc
An Evening With - A Product of My Imagination
Cherry Jam - A Picnic with Charlie
British Tea Party - Fools Gold
Breadstick - Finger Ring: The Proposal
Blue Goats of Yore - 404: Adrian Not Found
Bingo Bingo - Thee Evicted
Egors Ensemble - The Mis-Take
Everything Sticks - Murdered by a Bad Review
Five Musketeers - truER detective
Fruitstorm - Elijah's Ladder
Gremlin Mode - Where's Larry Scrapp?
Heat #5 -"WHERE THERE'S SMOKE"
Rating - R
Date/time - Wednesday 12th August - 6:00PM
ONLINE LINK - tbc
HOME FARM FILMS - Smoke and Mirrors
Imperials - MASHED
Little Frog Studio - Birthday Wish
Herms Heroes - ROAD 2 REVENGE
Mad Scientists - No Time To Die... Again
Megmo Productions - The Last Course
Meme Teme - What's yours is Mime
Maximum of 30 characters - I am Delta
Neato Productions - Blowing Smoke
PITCH SHIFTED - Nadir
Heat #6 -"GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE"
Rating - M
Date/time - Wednesday 12th August - 7:15PM
ONLINE LINK - tbc
Olax - Turpe
Out for Lunch - Cover Your Ears
PlanetFoxFilms - Back to the drawing board
Render Rebels - Asset Improvement
rip focus: Tokyo Drift - love you, baby
Rusted From The Back - EOD
Screen Qweens - Connection Lost
ScryptTeam - Спасибо
Shortsighted - Whoopies Daisy
Sonderers - The Girl with a Blindfold
Heat #7 -"WILLS GALORE & MATT DAMON"
Rating - M
Date/time - Wednesday 12th August - 8.30PM
ONLINE LINK - tbc
Staircase Nation - Eighties Action Movie
Sub-Par Cinema Society - Reputation
Sullivan Pictures - Charlie
The Accountants - Inheritance Blues
Team Abyssinian - Mon Amour
Team Diversity - The Odyssey
The Hedgehogs - Aliens at Heart
The Phoenixes - The Ransom
Wills Cinematic Catastrophes - Trip to Berlin
Toot Toot - Campaign
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
All heats will be held at the Covert Theatre as well as screened on our Youtube Channel.
Dates:
Saturday 22nd August
Sunday 23rd August
Tuesday 25th August
Thursday 27th August
Location - Covert Theatre - 51 Mackelvie Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland.
Capacity - 80 seats.
Accessibility information - This room will be wheelchair accessible, with ability to retract seats in front row to allow for wheelchair access.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Across Aotearoa
Ngāmotu / New Plymouth
Date: Wednesday 19th August: 5:45PM-8.30PM
Location - Len Lye Cinema - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery - 42 Queen Street, New Plymouth.
Capacity - 60 seats.
Accessibility Information - Ground floor or ramp/slight incline to enter cinema, 2 wheelchair spaces inside the cinema.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Ahuriri / Napier
Thursday 20th August: 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Location - Century Theatre - MTG Hawkeʻs Bay - 1 Tennyson Street, Napier South, Napier.
Capacity - 300 seats.
Accessibility information - Ground floor access. Wheelchair seating available inside cinema.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Whakatū / Nelson
Date: 24th August: 5:45PM
Location - State Cinemas - 91 Trafalgar Street, Nelson.
Capacity - 100 seats
Accessibility Information - Ground floor or ramp/slight incline to enter cinema, 2 wheelchair spaces inside the cinema
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Tauranga
Tuesday 25th August: 6:00PM - 8:30PM
Location - The Village Cinema is located in the Historic Village at 159, 17th Avenue, Tauranga South, Tauranga.
Capacity - 60 seats
Accessibility information - Wheelchair access and reserved seating on request in the cinema. For accessibility, feel free to email directly here: access@theincubator.co.nz or check out the website.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Ōtepoti / Dunedin
Wednesday 26th August: 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Location - Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, University of Otago, 75 Albany Street, Dunedin North, Dunedin 9016
Map to Castle 1 Lecture Theatre.
Capacity - 320 seats.
Accessibility information - Wheelchair accessible venue, spaces for wheelchairs at front of theatre.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Waihōpai / Invercargill
(Includes Queenstown teams)
Friday 28th August: 6:00PM
Location - Southern Institute of Technology.
SIT has two entrances and shows on Google Maps under the name: Te Rau O Te Huia / SIT Centre for Creative Industries - 133 Tay Street or 113 Esk Street, Hawthorndale, Invercargill
Capacity - 120 seats
Accessibility information - Wheelchair accessible.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Gisborne
Sunday 30th August: 6:30PM - 7:45PM
Location - Odeon Multiplex - 79 Gladstone Road, Gisborne.
Capacity - 290 seats.
Accessibility Information - Ground floor access, wheel chair friendly seating.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Kirikiriroa / Hamilton
Monday 31st August: 5:45PM - 8.30PM
Location - Lido Cinema Hamilton, Centre Place Level 1/501
Capacity - TBC
Accessibility Information -Ramp access and wheelchair seating.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.
Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington
All heats will be held at the Massey University National Academy of Screen Arts Cinema as well as screened on our Youtube Channel.
Dates:
Friday 4th September \\ 5:00PM - 9:00PM
Saturday 5th September \\ 2:00PM - 9:00PM
Sunday 6th September \\ 2:00PM - 7:30PM
Location - Massey University National Academy of Screen Arts Cinema - Block 10, Old Dominion Museum Building.
Capacity - 150 seats.
Accessability information - Wheelchair accessible, wheelchair seating in rear of cinema. Ramp access within the building. Stair entrance at front of building, but if you head south the ground rises to level of the building.
Doors will open 15 minutes before screening for all heats.