We Scream

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS Evil Cutlery on the best school team winner for Wellington.

We Scream is absolutely, absurdly hilarious. Paced perfectly and landed every single joke - the response from the crowd in the heats was evidence of this, and the team should also feel super proud of their tight edit, great camerawork and fantastic performances from the cast. The comic timing of We Scream out paced the comedy in most adult entries and I can't wait to see what's next from these rangatahi! So, so proud of you all!

As an Onslow alumni, I was super proud to see that Evil Cutlery took the prize for Best National School Team this year! I hadn't seen the film until now, and I was curious to see what the standard was for school teams in this very competitive year. If you're wondering what the answer is: it's bloody fantastic! This is very confident filmmaking from Rowan and crew, featuring a fun concept, great acting, bold editing and cinematography (great colour grading decisions too!) while keeping the most important thing about this competition at the forefront: simplicity. This team is setting the bar to a very high standard, and if this is what these rangatahi are creating now I think we've got some big laughs coming ahead over the next few years of this festival.