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The Impact Festival Run For 2023… What’s happening and can you represent the film?
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…
Chris Jones · 8 February 2023 · 1 min
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
Screen to Screen on Soho Radio with Chris Jones… A musical odyssey
Last week I recorded a fabulous Desert Island Disks inspired show for Screen To Screen on Soho Radio. It’s a great listen to play in the background with some personal favourite music to boot. Hosted by the dynamic duo…
Chris Jones · 18 July 2022 · 1 min
Impact50 and the inevitable recut for film festivals…
As we enter the festival stages for Impact50, we need to get real. The film is too long and in my view, most festivals will reject it on running time alone. I asked a couple of friendly festival programmers for some f…
Chris Jones · 4 July 2022 · 1 min
What did the audience think at the online premiere of Impact50?
Last Saturday we hosted the private online premiere of Impact50… At first I thought turnout was low as the softeware reported only 35 people were watching. That turned out to be 35 people who were logged into their ac…
Chris Jones · 27 June 2022 · 5 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
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
So it’s official! Impact50 has broken TWO world records!
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 hav…
Chris Jones · 20 June 2022 · 3 min
The Impact50 Posters Have Arrived! Grab Yours Now…
We are making the posters available for £20 (for two posters), including shipping (in a cardboard poster tube). You can grab yours below… I am closing thisoffer at the end of June 2022. Also, once we sell out that’s i…
Chris Jones · 12 June 2022 · 1 min
Photos from the Impact50 Awards
And finally, photos from the awards at the Impact50 world premiere. As ever, feel free to download and share on all socials. Over the weekend I will be sharing information about the official world record too! AMAZING!
Chris Jones · 9 June 2022 · 1 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
Can You Rank The Impact on IMDb?
If you were at the premiere, you have now seen the film. It would be HUGELY helpful if you can rate The Impact now on IMDb, and if you feel like it, leave a review too. Here’s the link https://www.imdb.com/title/tt184…
Chris Jones · 4 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
First Facebook Feedback from The Impact Premiere
So it happened. Impact50 was premiered and what a night. I will write more in the coming days, share more, including reviews and photos, bur for now I thought I would hare a few of the Facebook updates I was tagged in…
Chris Jones · 2 June 2022 · 7 min
Impact50 local Press Gathers Momentum…
Mark Hampton is currently winning the race for the most local press with two articles appearing over the last 24 hours. Well done Mark! Below are the links and also the link to an article from my local press where I g…
Chris Jones · 28 May 2022 · 1 min
A Crowd Created Feature Film Project by James Lingwood
Filmmaker James Lingwood who is attending the premiere just got some brilliant coverage and wrote an article for his film community below… A Crowd Created Feature Film Project Nearly a decade from conception to World…
James Lingwood · 28 May 2022 · 3 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
Celestial Contact at Impact50!
I am delighted to announce that Alex Barton, meteor expert, is joining us at the premiere. And he is bringing a MASSIVE 8kg meteorite – the fusion crust of an iron meteor that superheated when it began to burn in the…
Chris Jones · 20 May 2022 · 1 min
Twelve days from now… The Impact Finally Makes Contact In London
I want to invite you personally to an extraordinary evening. Walk red carpet. Enjoy the celebrations and awards. Watch the movie in a theatre, as it should be seen. And network with hundreds of other filmmakers, write…
Chris Jones · 19 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
Wonderful write up about Impact50 from Pamela Perry
Pamela Perry who was part of the screenwriting challenge for Impact50 just uploaded a lovely write up… here’s a bit of it… I had the opportunity to watch a screener of the film. The passion for storytelling and filmma…
Chris Jones · 17 May 2022 · 1 min
Indepth Interview with Impact50 Founder Chris Jones on Reviewmyscript.com
I recently did a lengthy interview for Reviewmyscript.com and it just went live… You can read the whole article HERE and below are the first few quesions and answer… What inspired the Impact50 movement and what kind o…
Chris Jones · 16 May 2022 · 1 min
Impact50 on film review site SplingMovies.com
Here are a few excerpts from the quite detailed and indepth review by Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling… While the coming apocalypse could lead to some dark places when it comes to rampant lawlessness, The Impact tends toward…
Chris Jones · 14 May 2022 · 1 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
Tragedy Strikes And Reminds Us All To Appreciate Life… Nothing Is Guaranteed
Given the Impact has taken eight years to make and involved thousands of people, and we also had a pandemic, it’s mathematical odds that we would lose someone. At the end of the film there is a title card to remember…
Chris Jones · 12 May 2022 · 1 min
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
