
So it’s official! Impact50 has broken TWO world records!
20 June 2022 · 3 min read
We have smashed our own pervious record on ‘50 Kisses’ with 67 screenwriters on The Impact, and beaten the film, The Owner, which had 25 directors. Impact50 has 40!

No we are not registered with Guinness as they have changed the way they do things and it would cost somewhere between £5k and £10k to have it authenticated and registered. It seems that new management has taken over and they wish to leverage their brand for big bucks. Roy Castle would be turning in his grave no doubt as this new financial structure means that normal folk can’t do crazy things to win a Guinness World Record like they could when I was a kid. Ah capitalism.
Nonetheless, we are collectively World Record holders and we don’t need a corporate brand to own that. BOOM!
So congratulations to everyone. We will be in touch soon with your official certificates that you can print out and hang on your wall. It will give the relatives, in-laws, neighbours and house guests something to coo over while we continue on our own epic journeys to excellence!
Drum roll… Here are our world record holders!
We have smashed our own pervious record on ‘50 Kisses’ with 67 screenwriters on The Impact, and beaten the film, The Owner, which had 25 directors. Impact50 has 40!
No we are not registered with Guinness as they have changed the way they do things and it would cost somewhere between £5k and £10k to have it authenticated and registered. It seems that new management has taken over and they wish to leverage their brand for big bucks. Roy Castle would be turning in his grave no doubt as this new financial structure means that normal folk can’t do crazy things to win a Guinness World Record like they could when I was a kid. Ah capitalism.
Nonetheless, we are collectively World Record holders and we don’t need a corporate brand to own that. BOOM!
So congratulations to everyone. We will be in touch soon with your official certificates that you can print out and hang on your wall. It will give the relatives, in-laws, neighbours and house guests something to coo over while we continue on our own epic journeys to excellence!
Drum roll… Here are our world record holders!
Directors
Evan Marlowe
James Lingwood
Nuru Mkali
Lee Crompton
Carrie Wachob
James Winters
James Skinner
Damien Beaton
Pieter Lombaard
Laurel Parker
Carlos Cardoso
Matt George Lovett
Milethia Thomas
Deb Richardson
David F. Jacobson
Andrew McGee
Mark Hampton
Peter Mimmack
Ben Mole
Deb Richardson
Kristjan Knigge
Zade Aerial
Emma Baggott
Tom Roderick
Natacha Simpson
Eleanor Horley
Hilla Sewell
Rudi Goodman
Rob Ayling
Rob Holder
Alisa Tritenko
Paul W Franklin
Vitaliy Zharkov-Galicev
Louise Clover
Julien Madelénat
Andy Sowerby
Adrian G. De La Pena
Richard Osborne
Chris Jones
Writers
Joe Eszterhas
Nicole Robb
Carole Parsons
Kim Wheeler
Keith Watson
Claire Yeowart
Rachael Howard
Carolyn Goodyear
John Bale
Cera Rose Pickering
Fiona Hunnisett
Vera Mark
Richard Flynn
Lynn Robertson Hay
Matt George Lovett
Steve Wrench
Dave Stevenson
Lisa Parry
Mondo Ghulam
Dee Chilton
Darren Barker
Tracey Parsons
Richard Anthony Dunford
Michael Montgomery
Jane Hamer
Ben Lacey
Ben Marshall
Gavin Boyter
Rachel Welch
Alex Beattie
Jacqueline Swift
Liz Holliday
KT Parker
David Toms
Phil Peel
Tyler Pierreson
Catherine Arton
Andrew Viner
Phil Charles
Simon Thomas
Stuart White
Zara Symes
Alan Evans
Sarah Newman
Roscoe Kleinloog
Kathy Barrilleaux
Matt Giannini
Kerry Dye
Scott Merrow
Michele Florea
Carrie Wachob
Chris Vanderhorst
Lloyd Morgan
Barry Hood
Milethia Thomas
Ben Mole
David F. Jacobson
Evan Marlowe
Stephanie Ginger
Tasbir Malle
Christian Smith
Kerry-Ann McGregor
Enni Red
Chris Mitchell
Alison Clapham
Richard Osborne
Written by
Chris JonesPassionate about all things film, I have spent my life watching movies, making movies and helping others make their movies too. Most recently I have been directing Splinter Unit on 'Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning', parts 1 and 2 for Paramount. I also executive-produced 'The Enfield Poltergeist' for Apple TV+. Deeper into my past, my early major projects include action thriller 'The Runner', serial killer thriller 'White Angel' and paranormal horror 'Urban Ghost Story'. I co-created and authored The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook series, published by Bloomsbury. There are now eight books in the series. More recently I have run a series of London-based festivals, kicking off with the London Screenwriters Festival which attracts over 1,000 professional screenwriters from around the globe annually. I also set up and run TEDxEaling, an annual TEDx conference on storytelling and human communication. In 2009, I made the multi-award-winning and Oscar-shortlisted 'Gone Fishing', the whole process being heavily documented on my blog. In 2014 I completed my fourth feature film, the crowd-created 50 Kisses which entered the Guinness Book Of Records for most screenwriters on a feature film. Following this success, I founded Create50 to continue the idea of crowd-created projects. Twisted50, our first book, was published on Halloween 2016 and immediately toppled Stephen King from the top spot on Amazon. Five books have followed in the Twisted50 series and we are working on the sixth now. During the summer of 2016 I trained to become a master Firewalk instructor and now regularly take people across the hot coals for charity. Late 2017 I directed the short film 'Seeing Him' which collected a ton of awards too. Over the following years I continued to make award-winning shorts, such as Meet The Nativity and Never Too Late. In the summer of 2022 I premiered Impact 50, the second feature-length movie from Create50. This time I directed the segment at the start of the film, with Olivia Williams as the President, and written by Joe Eszterhas. In the summer of 2022, I also joined the Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 productions as Splinter Unit director. At Halloween 2023, the Apple TV+ show that I co-executive-produced, 'The Enfield Poltergeist', premiered. I run regular filmmaking workshops for filmmakers both online and in person. Some people ask how I began making films? Like most filmmakers of my generation, it was with a Super 8mm camera, summertime and school friends, usually after watching a behind-the-scenes TV programme on a Hollywood movie like Star Wars. My first film was a zombie horror called Necronomicon, heavily influenced by John Carpenter's The Fog. And I was hooked for life. Contact me at Ealing Film Studios, Ealing Green, London, W5 5EP, UK




