2024 Winners

2024 Winners

2024 competition was the 21st year of the Vista Foundation 48Hours competition. It culminated in the top 18 films screening at the Grand Final at the Embassy Theatre in Te Whanganui-a-Tara on July 27th.

Below are all the nominees and winners. You can view and review them on our Screening Room LINK.

2024 Grand National Champion

Chicken by Nuggets (Kirikiriroa / Hamilton) Sir Peter Jackson Wildcard

2024 Grand National Runner Up

Sweets by Disqualified Tim (Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington)

2024 Grand National Second Runner Up

Loose End by Great Lake Film Society (Te Moana-a-Toi / Bay of Plenty) Sir Peter Jackson Wildcard

2024 Grand Finalists

Grand National Award Winners

Dame Gaylene Preston and Wift Best Female / Gender Diverse Director

Julie Zhu - Sad Jackie - Monster State

Nominees:

  • Isla Macleod - Thicker than Water - Jovial Entertainment
  • Sophie Black & Keely Meechan - Dead of the Day - The Good Bits
  • Molly Doyle - Kākāpō - YES, AND?
  • Hweiling Ow - Permanently Confused - Chef's Kiss
  • Anna Brajkovich - Glowtime - Man Hand
  • Waitahi Aniwaniwa McGee - Underwater Dreams - S(p)lash
  • Jade Sheppard - Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth

Ant's Solo/Duo Award

Twotors - Front Yard

Nominees:

  • Awkward Animations - The secret life of a sloth
  • Turncoats - Bonnie & Boney
  • Fox Emoji Wolf Emoji - Slán Go Fóill
  • Pastafarian Productions - Stella and the Blarg at Large
  • Disqualified Tim - Sweets

Viva La Dirt League Comedy Award

Nuggets - Chicken

Nominees:

  • Pixel Pixies - Lover's Got the Runs
  • An Evening With - Zero Mum Game
  • Couch Kumara - Gutted
  • Thicker than Water - Jovial Entertainment
  • Kratos - The Long Neck Job
  • Sports Team - Beware The Kraken

OPPO48 Award

Wooah - Under My Skin

Nominees:

  • An Evening With - Something Fishy
  • Breakfast Battalion - April Fools
  • Great Lake Film Society - Dis
  • Pipstars - Walkie Talkie
  • Take Ten - Pull My Heart Strings
  • The Flarm - An Unheard Joke
  • Traces of Nut - Opportunity

Best Director

Julie Zhu - Monster State - Sad Jackie

Nominees:

  • Joel Corbett and Denise Edmond - Great Lake Film Society - Loose End
  • Jade Sheppard - Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth
  • Chris Williams, Joe Alexander, Ben Emms - Hot Lunch - E.T.R.
  • Nopera Watene - Nuggets - Chicken
  • Esteban Jaramillo, Crosby Allen-Jennings, Louis Joblin - Berger King - The Lurhman Brothers
  • Chester Travis - An Evening With - Zero Mum Game

Best School

Evil Cutlery - We Scream (Onslow College)

Nominees:

  • TSŌ - Run With Me (Otumoetai College)
  • SOHS 1 - Ghost Summoning Vlog #23 (South Otago High School)
  • Yorkshire Tea - The Clap (Havelock North High School)
  • Leftovers - Birthday Party Productions (New Plymouth Girls High)
  • Naycol Weevils - The Light (Nayland College)
  • Love Bomb - Les Petit Cons (Western Springs College)

Best Performer

Jordan Mooney & Stephen Lovatt - chips cheese cats etc - Tender

Nominees:

  • Cameron Walton - Great Lake Film Society - Loose End
  • Amalia Remus - Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
  • AJ Bradley - Hot Lunch - E.T.R.
  • Tyla Tuala - Nuggets - Chicken
  • Jane Nye - Videoshop - Nightlight
  • Monique Clementson - An Evening With - Zero Mum Game

Best Script

Thicker than Water - Jovial Entertainment

Nominees: 

  • Great Lake Film Society - Loose End
  • Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth
  • Kratos - The Long Neck Job
  • The Anti Possession Centre - RS Productions
  • Couch Kumara - Gutted
  • An Evening With - Zero Mum Game

Best Cinematography supported by Rubber Monkey

Man Hand - Glowtime

Nominees: 

  • Great Lake Film Society - Loose End
  • Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
  • Kratos - The Long Neck Job
  • Slate 48 - Double Dip
  • Cinetrance - The Crowning
  • An Evening With - Zero Mum Game

Best Production Design

Disqualified Tim - Sweets

Nominees: 

  • Eddie Page Productions - Petrified
  • Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
  • Kratos - The Long Neck Job
  • Temporary Citizens - Last Light
  • Herms Heroes - The Adventures of Shart Boy and Larvae Girl: 3D
  • Sealami - Safe Streets, No Crime

Best Animation

Awkward Animations - The secret life of a sloth

Nominees: 

  • Whack Crizard - The Cheesening
  • Discombobulated Pistachios - Targeted
  • Pastafarian Productions - Stella and the Blarg at Large
  • Swan Ronson - Licky Business
  • Oomen Nature - Cold Feet

Best Editing

Videoshop - Nightlight

Nominees:

  • Great Lake Film Society - Loose End
  • Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
  • Hot Lunch - E.T.R.
  • Nuggets - Chicken
  • Dragon V Mouse - Gloria al Bravo Pueblo
  • Act of Service - Hardly Working

Best Sound Design

Dead of the Day - The Good Bits

Nominees:

  • Great Lake Film Society - Loose End
  • Discombobulated Pistachios - Targeted
  • Hot Lunch - E.T.R.
  • Muse Crew - Cup of Comfort
  • Underwater Dreams - S(p)lash
  • Moose Ninja Studios - The Good Man

Best Original Score/Song

Pixel Pixies - Lover's Got the Runs

Nominees:

  • Eddie Page Productions - Petrified
  • 48 hours of Musical Theatre - It's About Time
  • Hot Lunch - E.T.R.
  • NPGHS 3 - Eat or Be Eaten
  • rip focus - What Was That?
  • Sealami - Safe Streets, No Crime

Incredibly Strange supported by L'affare

Tie!

chips cheese cats etc - Tender

Disqualified Tim - Sweets

Nominees:

  • TheUltimateSuspendedFlat9Chord - Retrovertigo
  • the castle st couch burners - The Goat
  • Suki and the Disappointments - Dear Householder
  • NPGHS 3 - Eat or Be Eaten
  • Boomtown Bandits - Warp Speed Courier

NZ Film-Makers Collective Best Disqualified Film

Mahi Dogs - Redbelt

Nominees:

  • Highview - Misinformation
  • Brown Rabbit - Light headed
  • Filmanui - Dipstick
  • Breadstick - Carp Diem
  • UNE - Make Like A Tree