Most Recent Impact50 Updates
The Impact50 Formally Launches Today! Can you make a short film?
We officially launch the filmmaking leg of The Impact50 feature film today. Calling all filmmakers from around the world, can you make a short film from a two page script? Join hundreds of other filmmaking teams as we collectively produce an extraordinary feature film to be released in 2018. What do you do? Select
Lullaby written by Jane Hamer, Produced by Red Squares Kino
Directed by Natalia Filson under her Red Squares Kino production company, the film Lullaby written by Jane Hamer is now in post production. Pictures below: Director Natalia Filson on the set of Jane Hamer’s Lullaby the day before production begins. The short is part of the Impact for Create50. Lullaby stars Heidi Nagel
Write at the end by Ryan Harris
As the asteroid dust begins to settle, we can now look back at the impact50 competition that left a lot of us with a real emotional impact, some good some bad. For me personally the competition represented another lifeline after years of trial and error & error & error… With the impending feeling that maybe
Stills from one of the first Impact 50 films…
A number of filmmakers have begun making Impact 50 films to test the site. To be clear, we have not yet launched the filmmaking stage. But you may have also seen that a number of filmmakers have started making films for The Impact 50 ahead of the official launch. This is to help us test
Why I’m making a film for Create50 and you should too!
About two months ago, I began pre-production on my latest short film, which we aim to enter into the Impact50. Yes, I know the official filmmaking rules haven’t yet been announced, but if there’s one key piece of advice I’ve picked up from the Create50 and London Screenwriters’ Festival community it’s that you should be
A Look In The Spec Pile: @Create50, THE IMPACT
Following on from Wednesday’s brilliant post by @ShoreScripts on spec screenwriting clichés, here’s a look inside in the Create50 “lock-in” for LondonSWF’s second crowd-sourced feature film, THE IMPACT. Basically, Team LSF – and some very knowledgeable guests – locked themselves inside Ealing Studios during bank holiday weekend. Over the course of the two days, we re-read
Judging the Impact 50 Script Competition – or a little light reading over the weekend.
Last weekend I read nearly 300 scripts in two days and I learned… …Just how important the concept is. …Over and over again my notes were “needs tightening or cut dialogue” …The need to get into the story fast. Surprising how I could get bored even after one page. It was a lovely day, one
Impact50… The Countdown Has Begun… 100 days left to make your film
In just over 100 days, the Impact50 filmmaking challenge will close.Closing date is April 30th at midnight UK time. Can you make a short film from a two page script about the end of the world? If so, invest a weekend and become part of the Impact50 feature film challenge. Teams from around the world
5 Things I’ve Learned By Participating In Create50 ‘The Impact’
I’ve been part of the Create50 community for a little over a month now. There I was sitting in Paris with summer flu, feeling sorry for myself, looking for any excuse not to do housework, when I came across yet another exhortation on Facebook to join Create50. I watched the 50 Kisses film and lo
Create50: Mind Your Language by Dee Chilton
We’re not taking about *@<!%*# swear words here, We’re talking about effectively communicating feedback to other writers. Regardless of the final outcome of our submissions, taking part in the Create50 initiative is one of the best free* educational processes writers could wish for. The stories are short and the system allows us to see all
Top Tips
We asked some of the most active site members what were the most common notes they had seen, whether in feedback on others’ work or their own. These are collated and posted here as a handy reference guide and provide an invaluable tool to help you craft strong scripts. It’s interesting to note that these
Building a Jigsaw by Dee Chilton
Like me, you are no doubt on tenterhooks waiting the find out if your script is one of the selections for Create50 ‘The Impact’ filmmaking phase – and I purposely do not phrase that as a ‘winner’ or ‘loser’. To me, we are all winners because we submitted to the process, we created amazing stories,
The Impact50 Formally Launches Today! Can you make a short film?
We officially launch the filmmaking leg of The Impact50 feature film today. Calling all filmmakers from around the world, can you make a short film from a two page script? Join hundreds of other filmmaking teams as we collectively produce an extraordinary feature film to be released in 2018. What do you do? Select
Lullaby written by Jane Hamer, Produced by Red Squares Kino
Directed by Natalia Filson under her Red Squares Kino production company, the film Lullaby written by Jane Hamer is now in post production. Pictures below: Director Natalia Filson on the set of Jane Hamer’s Lullaby the day before production begins. The short is part of the Impact for Create50. Lullaby stars Heidi Nagel
Write at the end by Ryan Harris
As the asteroid dust begins to settle, we can now look back at the impact50 competition that left a lot of us with a real emotional impact, some good some bad. For me personally the competition represented another lifeline after years of trial and error & error & error… With the impending feeling that maybe
Stills from one of the first Impact 50 films…
A number of filmmakers have begun making Impact 50 films to test the site. To be clear, we have not yet launched the filmmaking stage. But you may have also seen that a number of filmmakers have started making films for The Impact 50 ahead of the official launch. This is to help us test
Why I’m making a film for Create50 and you should too!
About two months ago, I began pre-production on my latest short film, which we aim to enter into the Impact50. Yes, I know the official filmmaking rules haven’t yet been announced, but if there’s one key piece of advice I’ve picked up from the Create50 and London Screenwriters’ Festival community it’s that you should be
A Look In The Spec Pile: @Create50, THE IMPACT
Following on from Wednesday’s brilliant post by @ShoreScripts on spec screenwriting clichés, here’s a look inside in the Create50 “lock-in” for LondonSWF’s second crowd-sourced feature film, THE IMPACT. Basically, Team LSF – and some very knowledgeable guests – locked themselves inside Ealing Studios during bank holiday weekend. Over the course of the two days, we re-read
Judging the Impact 50 Script Competition – or a little light reading over the weekend.
Last weekend I read nearly 300 scripts in two days and I learned… …Just how important the concept is. …Over and over again my notes were “needs tightening or cut dialogue” …The need to get into the story fast. Surprising how I could get bored even after one page. It was a lovely day, one
Impact50… The Countdown Has Begun… 100 days left to make your film
In just over 100 days, the Impact50 filmmaking challenge will close.Closing date is April 30th at midnight UK time. Can you make a short film from a two page script about the end of the world? If so, invest a weekend and become part of the Impact50 feature film challenge. Teams from around the world
5 Things I’ve Learned By Participating In Create50 ‘The Impact’
I’ve been part of the Create50 community for a little over a month now. There I was sitting in Paris with summer flu, feeling sorry for myself, looking for any excuse not to do housework, when I came across yet another exhortation on Facebook to join Create50. I watched the 50 Kisses film and lo
Create50: Mind Your Language by Dee Chilton
We’re not taking about *@<!%*# swear words here, We’re talking about effectively communicating feedback to other writers. Regardless of the final outcome of our submissions, taking part in the Create50 initiative is one of the best free* educational processes writers could wish for. The stories are short and the system allows us to see all
Top Tips
We asked some of the most active site members what were the most common notes they had seen, whether in feedback on others’ work or their own. These are collated and posted here as a handy reference guide and provide an invaluable tool to help you craft strong scripts. It’s interesting to note that these
Building a Jigsaw by Dee Chilton
Like me, you are no doubt on tenterhooks waiting the find out if your script is one of the selections for Create50 ‘The Impact’ filmmaking phase – and I purposely do not phrase that as a ‘winner’ or ‘loser’. To me, we are all winners because we submitted to the process, we created amazing stories,