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Press Release – Vista Foundation
Vista Foundation 48Hours have some winners to announce! The
Vista Foundation Grand Finals honoured the creative ingenuity and awesome tenacity of 2021’s entrants, with some incredible entries from around Aotearoa lighting up the big screen in the heart of Tāmaki Makaurau.
Vista Foundation 48Hours Competition is thrilled to announce that the
2021 Grand National Champion Award goes to:
Good Girl by
Traces of Nut (Wellington)
A professional dog walker (Emma Draper) becomes immersed in a self-help podcast and finds herself treading dangerous territory.
The team also took home
Best Director and
Best Script on the night for their suspenseful and canine-filled entry. This marks the second time the team has won the top prize, last taking home the
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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