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The Screening Room is the digital home of the Vista Foundation 48Hours. Here you can watch the latest entries, read reviews, and see awards. Updates and help.

Regional Winner National Finalist Regional Finalist

Gutted

Couch Kumara

National Runner Up National Finalist Regional Finalist

Sweets

Disqualified Tim

Regional Runner Up National Finalist

Nightlight

Videoshop

National Finalist Regional Finalist

Lover's Got the Runs

Pixel Pixies

National Finalist Regional Finalist

The Lurhman Brothers

Berger King

Regional Finalist

After the Flare

NITRO

Regional Finalist

At the Hampers of Madness

ScAvengers

Regional Finalist

CATASTROPHIC

Kettle of Fish

Regional Finalist

Front Yard

Twotors

Regional Finalist

HEARTH

Silver Noodle Soup

Regional Finalist

Keepsake

Bus Stop Productions

Regional Finalist

S(p)lash

Underwater Dreams

Regional Finalist

The Bureau

Infinity Pup

Regional Finalist

The Crowning

Cinetrance

Regional Finalist

Walcom to New Zillund

Ugly Fruit

*#@

Raumati Antisocial Club

All It Takes

Stringy Thing Productions

Artfool

B42

Beaky Friday

Sweet Rat Media

Beginner's Luck??

Two Things

BooTooth

Levin The Dream

Bullseye

Just Us

Carecrow

Hairy Stool

Catastrophe

The Bros

Chasing the Horizon

TW99

Clowning around

The Other Side

Creature Comforts

PuppyGuts

Danger éstrange

Mooning the Sun

Demetri's Law

Squint Eastwood

Dog Boy

Neon Moon

Doom Scroller

Chowder on the Rocks

Double Dip Recession

The Accidents

Eternal Bond

Crowded Shower

Forbidden Fruit

The old metal thing in the backyard

Gestalt des Saturn

Gottkomplex

Girl Dinner

Just the Crust

Happy CamperZ

Return of the Swamp King

Heartfelt

Nutbar Films

Imagine That

The Tin Whistle Collective

In & Out

Bag of Rats

In the Trout of Madness

Dangerzone Films

Insider

Vandals in Jandals

Jig's Up

AuroraVision

Jimm.

Daiso Ran

Katastrophe

HD PLAY

Kaylor

steelpotato

Keeps the Doctor Away

Son of TEAM!

Long Day on the Line

Hell for Leather

Lost boy

British Tea Party

Lost in Transmission

Lakeside Productions

Magic Mic

Goo Productions

Make-A-Man

Talking in Timecodes

Me, Myself and AI

JEFF HAM

Disqualified

Meat the Artist

Windy TV

Memoirs of a Teddy Bear

Break the Mould Films

Michael & the Vegan

Animal Rights

Monsters Sync

My Dog Has Alopecia

My Heart Beeps For You

Meese Hunters

Disqualified

Neko's Neighbour

1st Nine Primes

New Phone Who Dis?

Ehmiy Studios

Night Whispers

The Beige Menace

No Strings Attached

Contrast

Out Of This World

Salad Dressing

P.B. & Jay

Those Guys

Disqualified

Piracy Police

Crew 36

Please Do Not Feed the Animals

Under Funded Thunder Films

Prank Monster

SPLITelevision Productions

Disqualified

Redbelt

Mahi Dogs

SPARE

WORMS

Disqualified

Something in the Water

Balsamic Vignette

Disqualified

Strings Attached

The Salad Dodgers

Strings Attached

Elves

THE BUSINESS

Budget Boy Films

THE CHALKER

Tripell Films

Tale of the Rolling Wanderer

Honey, I 8Ked the Kids

The Animal

Final Title Productions

The Cream Crusader

Stun Seed

The Hatchling

Outcasts

Disqualified

The Neighbour

Lamps and Plants

The One Body Problem

Sausage Fest

Disqualified

The Sum-it

Wellington Film Collaborators

The Winds de la Séance

Popecar

Thermal Warning

Ultimation Studios

Trash Talk

Scruffster and Cat

Trident

Trident

Tunnel Vision

Cinematic in Italics

Disqualified

Turbulence

The Menauteurs

Two Of A Mind

101 Productions

Unhinged

Nutty Mosquitoes

WOAH MUMMA

Marmalade Productions

We Scream

Evil Cutlery

Wildersong

Wetter Workshop

Recent reviews

This movie left me feeling anything but gutted! Great film. Great use of genre. Great lead performance. Great sfx. Great ending. I was thoroughly impressed with this devilishly delightful film. It was squeamish and gleeful at once. Well done to the art/props team for such convincing, comedic and coronary guts! Matter of fact, well done to the whole team’s guts! Very Olivia Rodrigo coded. Particularly the failed proposal - which was an excellent emotional centre to the film. Perfectly played in all its nuances by the star. Bravo!

Masters at work here! A fantastic story, it feels like a great anecdote you’d hear at a dinner party. The performance from the lead actress was fantastic. Completely convincing. The camera work is scrumptious and enhanced by a beautiful colour grade. The structure was perfect. The highlight of the film for me was the performance by the Pastor. Their use of profanity was like the climax to a spiritual conflict AND a great punchline. Well done!

I was hypnotised by this enigma of a film. It was resonant and strangely salient for a film that so tantalisingly dances away from comprehension. The thematic concern of the rising sea levels and humanity’s ability to destroy ourselves was sewn into the film. The documentarian aspects of it fuse with the narrative aspects of it to create an interesting kind of third space. I think it is an exciting thing to create something new or inventive or original so I praise this team. Well done!

Excellent style. Very well done.

Interesting film, all done on greenscreen I suspect adding a sort of charm to the film. I like the sense of humor and the costume was fantastic.

As an Onslow alumni, I was super proud to see that Evil Cutlery took the prize for Best National School Team this year! I hadn't seen the film until now, and I was curious to see what the standard was for school teams in this very competitive year. If you're wondering what the answer is: it's bloody fantastic! This is very confident filmmaking from Rowan and crew, featuring a fun concept, great acting, bold editing and cinematography (great colour grading decisions too!) while keeping the most important thing about this competition at the forefront: simplicity. This team is setting the bar to a very high standard, and if this is what these rangatahi are creating now I think we've got some big laughs coming ahead over the next few years of this festival.

The presentation of this film shows that this team knows what they are doing technically. The locations are well selected, and filmed at just the right time of day to convey the right emotion. The acting is also solid and engaging. The only thing I would say is that it wasn't clear to me what was happening with the story. You've got the lovers on the run, but I didn't feel like it had a solid emotional core.

I've been sitting and thinking about this film for months and months, umming and ahhing about the thoughts in my brain versus what comes out of my keyboard here. Because ultimately for me this does a number of things better than almost any film I've ever seen in the competition from a technical point of view, but the disjointed, conjoining stylised fairytale narrative genuinely had me scratching me head.

I'm not trying to make this a hot take but this might be the great trailer ever produced in 48 Hours.

The camerawork, direction, edit, grade, sound, music and performances are phenomenal. The coverage is out of this world and yet from a narrative point of view our central conceit is that twin flames will go any lengths for the other person?

Having said that yes it is delivered with nuanced tone and intensity to the point where we buy what you're selling as viewers. The onscreen journey is riveting, uptempo and engaging. There is also a heavy resolution of reality, more akin to BADLANDS than the structural nods to TRUE ROMANCE and NBK that one might expect here.

But honestly being technically so good I was frustrated by the lack of narrative depth to the plot, and felt that being so open ended in nature hurt the story because it made the tech wizardry overshadow the story. And story is king in 48.

I've watched this a few times now and I love the performances and the style. Definitely one of my favourite teams in Wellington