Key Dates for 2025
1 May 2025
The Vista Foundation 48Hours, New Zealand's premier guerrilla filmmaking competition, is set to return in 2025 with its highly anticipated shoot weekend scheduled from Friday, August 15, to Sunday, August 17.
🎬 What Is 48Hours?
The Vista Foundation 48Hours is New Zealand’s largest guerrilla filmmaking competition. Each year, over…
Read moreFrom 48Hours HQ
30 Jul 2024
This year has been one of the strongest years of 48Hours! It has been so incredible to see teams continually evolving and impressing us with their films, both long-time competitors and newcomers. We are proud of the calibre of films that are being produced, and we want to congratulate all…
Read moreOPPO48 Winner
30 Jul 2024
The 2024 OPPO48 winner is 'Under My Skin' by Wooah!
This inventive film was made as part of the OPPO48 challenge which had 100 competitors make a 1 minute film in 5 hours, shot on an OPPO phone.
You may have seen Sealami's film 'Safe Streets, No Crime' in the…
Grand National Champion and National Winners 2024
26 Jul 2024
And the WINNER of the 2024 Vista Foundation 48Hours is...
CHICKEN by NUGGETS!
After a well-attended Grand Finals Event at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington, we are thrilled to present the 2024 Grand National Champion Award to ‘Chicken’ by Nuggets (Kirikiriroa / Hamilton)
Landing the splatter genre, it is an…
Grand Finals Livestream 2024
23 Jul 2024
The Grand Final for the Vista Foundation 48Hours is nearly upon us!
If you can't make it to the big event on Saturday, we will be live streaming the Grand Finals from our YouTube channel.
Click notify me to be reminded when we go live on Saturday night!
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