This year's winner of Wellington's 48HOURS film competition is Team Good Times with their grindhouse short Maori Detective and the Boogie Fever. Good Times have won for the second year in a row after last year taking the award with the horror short The Baby Farmer . Producer Bonnie Slater and Director Sam Kelly were thrilled to defend their title in an exciting final of excellent films screened at the Embassy Theatre. This year's winner of Wellington's 48HOURS film competition is Team Good Times with their grindhouse short Maori Detective and the Boogie Fever. Good Times have won for the second year in a row after last year taking the award with the horror short The Baby Farmer . Producer Bonnie Slater and Director Sam Kelly were thrilled to defend their title in an exciting final of excellent films screened at the Embassy Theatre.The winners hope that after two consecutive wins that the industry will take notice and hope to finally get the opportunity to make their own projects with the support of the funding bodies.

The 48HOURS filmmaking competition gives teams just 48 hours to make a film, from idea to completion. Each team are given a genre, a character, a line of dialogue, and a prop to include in their film. There were over 130 teams competing in Wellington this year. Judges include prominent filmmakers Jonathan King (Writer/Director of Black Sheep), Robert Sarkies (Writer/Director of Out of the Blue), and Vicky Pope (Producer).

Team Good Times were given grindhouse ('a 60's or 70's exploitation film') as their genre and made a blaxploition tribute film called Maori Detective and the Boogie Fever. The story features strippers, uncontrollable dancing, jive talking, and the coolest Maori Detective yet put to film.

Maori Detective and the Boogie Fever won Best Film, Best Script (David Brechin-Smith, Sam Kelly, Kelly Kilgour), Best Actor (Cohen Holloway), Best Actress (Darlene Mohekey), Best Cinematography (Mathew Knight), and Most Thrilling Moment. The Best Cinematography prize was a HD Panasonic camera valued at $10,000.

Now Maori Detective and Boogie Fever will represent Wellington at the national finals screening live on C4 on July 1st at 8:30pm. This screening features the best short films made from nearly 500 teams competing in six different cities. The Grand National Winner will be decided by home viewer text voting and will receive over $36,000 worth of prizes. www.48hours.co.nz

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