Most Recent Impact50 Updates
Why make Impact50? Interview with Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival
As part of the Sydney International Science Fiction Film Festival where The Impact is playing, the organisers asked me some questions, and I thought I would share them here too. You can get more info on the festival and tickets HERE. What have been the science-fiction works – books, films, art of any kind –
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 etc. I just got word that we have been accepted at the Melbourne Science Fiction
Dee Chilton And The Beginnings Of ‘The End Of The Line’
I’d never really thought about writing audio drama before the producer of ‘The End Of The Line’ asked me to write a navy-themed episode, which I knew to be a wonderfully crafted and thought provoking podcast series of: ‘Powerful stories about how we treat women who don’t have kids’. At that time, I’d already listened
Impact50: 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, including my own that was the final chapter, of the impact and devastation and final flourishing
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 of Liz McMullen and Steve Harcourt (Liz who I met through The Impact). It’s a true
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 feedback and here it is (edited to make it flow). I watched the movie
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 accounts on YouTube at the time! When we got the numbers back from Youtube we discoved 2,400
Listen to Milethia Thomas on BBC Radio Humberside with Fiona Mills
Milethia manages to capture the essence of Impact50 so brilliantly in this interview on the day of the online première! Well done for keeping the energy and momentum up Milethia! Want to get a little bit more Impact? Here’s some related posts… Taking The Impact out of Life’s A Beach by Mark Hampton ‘Prime Meridian’
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 a few short film credits as director and plans for features were
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… Want to get a little bit more Impact? Here’s some related posts… Where Are You? By Infinity Room Films ‘School’s Out’ by Schooldays Films
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 another feature film. After trying to break into screenwriting since I first turned professional with my
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 have changed the way they do things and it would cost somewhere between £5k and £10k to
Why make Impact50? Interview with Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival
As part of the Sydney International Science Fiction Film Festival where The Impact is playing, the organisers asked me some questions, and I thought I would share them here too. You can get more info on the festival and tickets HERE. What have been the science-fiction works – books, films, art of any kind –
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 etc. I just got word that we have been accepted at the Melbourne Science Fiction
Dee Chilton And The Beginnings Of ‘The End Of The Line’
I’d never really thought about writing audio drama before the producer of ‘The End Of The Line’ asked me to write a navy-themed episode, which I knew to be a wonderfully crafted and thought provoking podcast series of: ‘Powerful stories about how we treat women who don’t have kids’. At that time, I’d already listened
Impact50: 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, including my own that was the final chapter, of the impact and devastation and final flourishing
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 of Liz McMullen and Steve Harcourt (Liz who I met through The Impact). It’s a true
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 feedback and here it is (edited to make it flow). I watched the movie
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 accounts on YouTube at the time! When we got the numbers back from Youtube we discoved 2,400
Listen to Milethia Thomas on BBC Radio Humberside with Fiona Mills
Milethia manages to capture the essence of Impact50 so brilliantly in this interview on the day of the online première! Well done for keeping the energy and momentum up Milethia! Want to get a little bit more Impact? Here’s some related posts… Taking The Impact out of Life’s A Beach by Mark Hampton ‘Prime Meridian’
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 a few short film credits as director and plans for features were
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… Want to get a little bit more Impact? Here’s some related posts… Where Are You? By Infinity Room Films ‘School’s Out’ by Schooldays Films
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 another feature film. After trying to break into screenwriting since I first turned professional with my
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 have changed the way they do things and it would cost somewhere between £5k and £10k to