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The Festival Cut is done…

We are now running at 111 minutes, longer than the advice I was given, but WAY shorter than the 145 mins we were running at before. Almost every film has been trimmed and four films have been removed entirely, includi…

Chris Jones·18 July 2022·1 min

Listen to Filmmaker and Screenwriter Richard Osborne on BBC Three Counties Radio

I just got the file of the recording of Richard Osborne, one of the filmmakers whose film is in Impact50, of his radio interview from a few weeks ago. Listen below…

Chris Jones · 22 June 2022 · 1 min

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Looks like I might be getting more than one film premiere this year, by Lynn Robertson Hay

I fully expected that the first project I’d tell you about would be my film BRAVE THE DARK, starring Jared Harris, which shot in the States last year – but another project has leap-frogged over it. And amazingly, it’s…

Chris Jones · 21 June 2022 · 5 min

Behind The Scenes at the Impact50 Premier and Awards Photos

Finally I can share all the photos from the party and event around the Impact premiere, awards pix imminent. They are taken by Sarah Olivier and Phillip J Coleman . As ever feel free to download and use in your own so…

Chris Jones · 6 June 2022 · 1 min

Signing the Poster for Impact50

As we did with 50 Kisses, we brought a special mounted poster to be signed by EVERYONE involved. We managed to get a photo of most people signing, so have a look and feel free to share the ones of you. You can downloa…

Chris Jones · 5 June 2022 · 1 min

Impact50… The Premiere and Beyond…

The Impact was finally premiered on May 31st and what an evening it was! For me it was a personal milestone as I finally moved this mammoth project across the finish line. Eight years in the making, with thousands of…

Chris Jones · 4 June 2022 · 1 min

And… We are BBFC Certified at 12A

We just got notice that we are now BBFC Classified as 12A, meaning children under 12 can only watch if accompanied by an adult. He BBFC say it gets this rating because of moderate threat, sex references, injury detail…

Chris Jones · 26 May 2022 · 1 min

The Impact… Finally on the BIG Screen!

Today I visited the Genesis cinema to test the DCP (Digital Cinema Print) of the film on the big screen. It looked and sounded (now mixed in 5.1) totally sensational! Given the films were shot on everything ranging fr…

Chris Jones · 25 May 2022 · 1 min

Prepare for The Impact… Feature by filmink.com.au

by Dov Kornits May 18, 2022 The crowd-created feature was eight years in the making by sixty-seven writers and thirty-six directors (both world records), including Australians. If the premise of Don’t Look Up had you…

Chris Jones · 18 May 2022 · 4 min

Will you be signing the One Of A Kind Poster at the Premiere?

Will you be signing the One Of A Kind Poster at the Premiere? When we premiered 50 Kisses, we mounted a poster on foam board and asked everyone who is on the final film credits and who is present, to sign it. That pos…

Chris Jones · 13 May 2022 · 1 min

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The Impact DCP Goes To The BBFC For Classification

The final DCP* for The Impact is coming out just over 100GB, fitting nicely on an old SSD ripped from a dead laptop. And it’s now time to submit the film for BBFC classification. This is a legal requirement if we are…

Chris Jones·8 May 2022·2 min

Grab YOUR Movie Poster for Impact50

After a HUGE amount of debate within the team and community, we have decided to use the poster with the meteor for all online presence. It works really well in the fast-paced environment of social media, such as accou…

Chris Jones · 29 April 2022 · 1 min

Final Poster Poll… meteor or no meteor?

So it’s almost Impact day and we need to decide. The team is split. With the meteor, or without the meteor? You can cast your vote below and see live results. Note the credits are still temporary. I will share my thou…

Chris Jones · 21 April 2022 · 1 min

50 Kisses Blog and Posts Resurrected

Over the last week and helped by the fabulous Milethia Thomas, we have managed to bring back the 50 Kisses blog, literally hundreds of posts on the whole journey. It’s fascinating to read and also inspirational to see…

Chris Jones · 18 April 2022 · 1 min

SECOND EDIT… ‘The Survivalist’ by Oakhaven Films

‘The Survivalist’ was a collaboration between The Glitch Collective (‘Mariana 627’, ‘What’s Wrong With Morris?’), Period 8 Pictures (‘A Beautiful Death’, ‘Too Many Cooks’) and the newly-established Oakhaven Films, mem…

Chris Jones · 12 July 2019 · 1 min

‘Blood Sweat and Tears’ by Gingersnap Productions FINE CUT

Producer and writer Stephanie Ginger who divides her time between the Algarve and the UK, formed Gingersnap Productions specifically to make one of her own scripts Blood Sweat and Tears for Phase Two of the Impact50 i…

Chris Jones · 3 July 2019 · 1 min

Meet the 46th and Final President of the United States… Filming The Final Address

Last Friday we shot the opening scene of The Impact, written by Joe Eszterhas and starring Olivia Williams. We shot in an extraordinary White House Oval Office reconstruction in Norfolk at RAF Coltishall in the sets o…

Chris Jones · 8 May 2018 · 1 min

‘Francis of Fell End Farm’ – My Journey from Writer to Director

Amos Dewhurst as ‘Francis’ with Gwyn as ‘Moss’ As ‘Francis of Fell End Farm’ is now going through post-production, I think back over the past year since I decided to film the script. I knew that my script presented ch…

Milethia Thomas · 15 March 2018 · 8 min

First Russian Team Creating a FIlm for the Impact50!

By the moment I entered the international team of Impact50 I had produced three shorts. However, I have never produced a short film, which was not made from my own screenplay. This was my first try. I read all the win…

Enni Red · 26 February 2018 · 5 min