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From Five Minutes to Five Cars… A Create50 Success Story by Mark Hampton

This is a follow-up to a earlier blogs about Life’s A Beach , my short film entry to The Impact, which had its world premiere on 31st May 2022. Other posts HERE and HERE . When I directed Life’s A Beach in 2018 I had…

Chris Jones·24 June 2022·2 min

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

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What writers will get from attending The Impact premiere? By Ben Marshall

I was a newbie writer when I entered 50 kisses – the first Create50 feature project. My script didn’t get picked (I wasn’t ready) but I watched the bold and diverse film it produced and read all 50 winning scripts to…

Chris Jones · 19 April 2022 · 2 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