I obviously had too much time on my hands back in August because I volunteered to run a 48-hour film competition. From humble origins Film Dash (as I called it) it gathered pace, got bundled into Hello Digital and culminated in 11 films being produced over a single weekend with one being shown at the Odeon on Sunday night.
I was more than chuffed with how it all went. Three times as many teams entered than I had cautiously hoped for and the quality of the films was astounding.
I’ve rounded up links to all the films on the Film Dash website and I really do recommend checking them out, they’re all under 5 minutes so it won’t take that long.
The judging panel (which didn’t include myself, thankfully) picked a winner and that is the excellent ‘Dunkirk’ by Team TTV:
Dunkirk from Pete Ashton on Vimeo.
There’s a very good chance I’ll be organising something again next year. Details to be confirmed/dreamt up later, but it was too fun not to do again. If you want to get on the Film Dash mailing list just email ‘SUBSCRIBE’ to filmdash@gmail.com.
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