The Impact Festival Run For 2023… What’s happening and can you represent the film?
8 February 2023 · 1 min read
Following the premiere of The Impact last summer, I entered the film into a schlew of top tier festivals. Sadly, none of the bit. This means I am now chasing big festivals, but not the huge ones like Sundance, Cannes etc.
I just got word that we have been accepted at the Melbourne Science Fiction Film Festival, you can see here that we are screening after The Last Starfighter’… EEEEK!
If you are in that part of the world and if you were involved in Impact50, and IF you would like to represent the film, drop me a line and I will see what I can do. It’s always nice if a real human can introduce the film and answer questions after in the bar.
So… If you were involved in The Impact and know of a local festival to you, or better, you know the organisers, can you let me know?
My aim is to show the f
ilm at festivals where we can announce that filmmakers, writers, actors, crew, anyone involved, will be there to represent the film.
This could be you.
This will really help with PR for the film and should also give you a little positive heat too.
OK, watch this space. We are now in a way less competitive arena for screen time so we should have a much higher success rate and hopefully some awards to collect!
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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
