restriction breeds creativity’, and that’s what the
48Hours Competition has always been about. 2021 has seen this ring truer than ever, with lockdowns, earthquakes and tsunami warnings keeping filmmakers on their toes during filming, with safety front of, right alongside creative filmmaking and good old Kiwi ingenuity. 2021 saw filming happen over the weekend of 5 -7 March, with a second filming weekend on 12-14 March for Tāmaki Makaurau-based teams due to the Auckland COVID-19 lockdown.
Every year, Vista Foundation 48Hours HQ brews up a hearty challenge for our nation’s filmmaking teams and every year they are awestruck at the creativity and ingenuity of the films produced in only one weekend. To learn more about 2021’s genres and required elements and imagine the challenges they presented, check out the
restriction breeds creativity’, and that’s
what the
48Hours Competition has always
been about. 2021 has seen this ring truer than ever, with
lockdowns, earthquakes and tsunami warnings keeping
filmmakers on their toes during filming, with safety front
of, right alongside creative filmmaking and good old Kiwi
ingenuity. 2021 saw filming happen over the weekend of 5 -7
March, with a second filming weekend on 12-14 March for
Tāmaki Makaurau-based teams due to the Auckland COVID-19
lockdown.
Every year, Vista Foundation 48Hours HQ
brews up a hearty challenge for our nation s filmmaking
teams and every year they are awestruck at the creativity
Murder on Middle Beach There are moments watching this docuseries when you think perhaps you shouldn’t be watching. You become increasingly sceptical the narrator should be sharing his story, and it doesn’t feel like it will end well. It follows Madison Hamburg, an eager, earnest late-20s man trying to find out why his mother was murdered more than a decade ago. The brutal homicide shook his small town community, but when Madison begins to ask questions, his father warns him there are things he’s better off not knowing. Secrets and lies begin to arise, as does the feeling that no-one is going to enjoy the truth of this story.
Expecting something light-weight and knockabout, I came out completely charmed - and even a little moved.
Mama s Music Box sees Vaiaoga-Ioasa back on familiar ground, in the suburban streets and malls of Mangere, unfurling a simple, but happily watchable tale of two grown grandchildren trying to retrieve a much-loved music box from somewhere in the clutches of their grandmother’s much-divided family. Mama has had a falling out, the reasons for which are murky and labyrinthine, with all of her siblings. Now showing the first cracks of dementia, she is fixated on getting this family heirloom back on her mantelpiece for Christmas. So good-hearted Sam (Sieni Leo O olo) and her slightly less-than-willing brother Matai (Unaloto Funaki) set off on a trip around the neighbourhood to try and understand and repair the feud, while Matai pines for a new love and wonders how he s ever going to afford the expensive gifts he s promised her.