2 Days Later

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THE '2 DAYS LATER' 48HR HORROR SHORTS COMPETITION & FESTIVAL 2007

ENTER IF YOU DARE...

**New Website**

The premise is simple: download the entry form from www.2dayslater.co.uk, then grab a camera, some friends, and a bottle of ketchup, and go out and produce a mini horror masterpiece in just 48 hours (2 Days Later - geddit? Danny Boyle would be so proud!) Of course, we have a cunning plan to make sure you do just that, but that's all part of the fun - we'll keep it mysterious and let you find out for yourselves when you download the brief. Oh, and you do need to be over 16 to enter.

12 films will be shortlisted.

Judging is by both a panel of film industry professionals and also by audience vote.

2 Days Later was concocted in 2003 over a social drink between Mick and Chris of Beeping Bush Productions, a community arts and digital media company based in Thanet, and Jean from Close-Up Film, a national film website, based in canterbury. Their mutual interest in grassroots filmmaking, encouragement of new and emergent filmmakers, and a healthy sense of fun resulted in 2 Days Later. Now, five years later, the competition attracts entries from all over the world.

In the June 2007 edition of Digital Video Magazine, 2 Days Later was ranked in the top five events for new filmmakers in the UK.

In 2006, 2 Days Later became a fully-fledged film festival when a series of filmmaking workshops was introduced to the event.

2007 saw a series of four workshops taking place, plus a lecture on horror, and horror screenings.

The Screenings & Awards 2007 took place on Saturday 27th October at the Theatre Royal, Margate, the second oldest theatre in the country and one of the most haunted!

This year's winners were the first recipients of the HorrOscars, each a unique, individual trophy designed and created by BA Fine Art students at Canterbury Christ Church University...

THE JUDGING PANEL FOR 2007:

Barry Bassett - VMI, Digital Production Facilities

Geoff Bell - Actor, 'The Business', 'Green Street'

Gina Fegan - producer, 'The Tournament' (starring Robert Carlyle and Ving Rhames); CEO, South East Media Network; founder, www.digitaldeli.co.uk

Philip Ilson - Halloween Festival; short film programmer, Curzon Soho

James Moran - screenwriter, 'Severance', 'Dr Who','Torchwood'

Kim Newman - horror author & critic; contributing editor 'Empire' and 'Sight & Sound' magazines

John Offord - Acquisitions Manager, Propeller TV

Mike Shaw - Film Correspondent, Kent Messenger & What's On; Editor of www.the-void.co.uk

Prizes included two places on the Raindance Lo-to-No Budget Filmmaking course, a week's hire of Shooting Equipment, courtesy of VMI, a private screening of the winners work at VMI's Soho Preview Theatre in London, and copies of the Netribution Film Financing Handbook.

We are starting work on 2 Days Later 2008 NOW!!! As we look to develop and expand the event we are interested in hearing from filmmakers, sponsors, advertisers, film professionals, film lovers, volunteers and other interested parties, so please get in touch, either through MySpace or email jean.lynch@2dayslater.co.uk

2007 WINNERS

BEST FILM
The Soldier (dir. Robert Shaun Smith)
Jack T
Do Not Eject (dir. Bob Haslam)

BEST FILM (AUDIENCE VOTE) - SHORTLISTED PERFORMANCE
Jack T (dir. Dominic Currie)

BEST FILM (AUDIENCE VOTE) - MATINEE PERFORMANCE
Maggraffiti (dir. Sharon Harper)



BEST STUDENT FILM
Maggraffiti

BEST SCREENPLAY
Jack T
Do Not Eject
Noises (dir. Sam Rogers)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Soldier
Presence (dir. Russell Gomm)
Dollface (dir. Katian Witchger)

BEST SOUND
Jack T
The Soldier
No Escape (dir. Steve Shaw)

BEST EDITOR
The Soldier
Presence
Sunday (dir. Thomas Guerrier)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Soldier
Jack T
Do Cyborgs Fantasize Over Anchovy Double Pepperoni (dir. Nicholas Silk)

BEST ACTOR MALE
Bob Haslam (Do Not Eject)

BEST ACTOR FEMALE
Vickie Hobbs (Presence)

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