UPDATE - Find out who the winners were here.

Tonight the winning film will be revealed from one of the nine films competing in the V48 Hours challenge.

Six regional finalists from Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Gisborne, Christchurch and Dunedin and three wildcards, chosen by Peter Jackson, will compete for a Grand Prize package worth more than $100,000.UPDATE - Find out who the winners were here.

Tonight the winning film will be revealed from one of the nine films competing in the V48 Hours challenge.

Six regional finalists from Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Gisborne, Christchurch and Dunedin and three wildcards, chosen by Peter Jackson, will compete for a Grand Prize package worth more than $100,000.The films will be shown on July 3 at 8.30pm on C4 Television and www.c4tv.co.nz. The two-hour TV special was created by Two Heads and is jammed packed with all the cheers and tears of what 48HOURS entails. There are team profiles, behind the scenes action, spotlights on Animation, Maori and Teen Teams, Special awards and the nine competing short films.

The first wildcard is Team Lense Flare with their time travel short called BEYOND BELIEF. An apt title for the team who were chosen last year as a wildcard and ended up going on to be crowned Grand Champions. All eyes will be on the Grand Final to see if they can pull off the biggest back to back victory ever.

There is strong competition coming from three time Grand Finalists Smashing Pants, a Wellington team who could live the ultimate cliche and make it third time lucky. They'll have to get past six-year veterans of the competition, Fractured Radius, a team coined after their director broke his wrist in their debut short back in 2003. And then there are the sleeping giants, the unassuming Guerilla Monkeys from Hamilton and the soon-to-be-known but extremely assured Spooce Media:The Real McCoy from Christchurch. Dunedin has newcomers The Dangly Gruffnuts and Gisborne has Team Kaiti Hill, a husband and wife team who might just win on charm alone.

An international judging panel of film experts will decide just who will be the Grand Champion for 2008. The judges include Mimi Brody from UCLA Film Archive, Livia Bloom the curator of Moving Image Centre in NYC, Michael Koller from the Melbourne Cinematheque, Doug Jones from LA Film Festival, Tim League from Fantastic Fest and Mitch Davis from Fantasia Film Festival.

One of the nine shorts below only one will be crowned Grand National Champ 2008.

The End by Fractured Radius (Auckland)
A man tries to keep the script to his final moments just perfect

Sum Of All Parts by Guerilla Monkeys (Hamilton)
A creepy tale of obsessive love and body parts

le dernier jour de Tony (Tony's Last Day) by Kaiti Hill (Gisborne, Tairawhiti)
A wry look at a kiwi abroad

Darlene by Smashing Pants (Wellington)
A troubled youth, some stolen goods and love

The Real McCoy Agent Post:
Or How I Stopped Being Pretentious And Learned To Love Cliche by Spooce Media (Christchurch)
Ken & Barbie meet Michale Bay and things blow up

Two Bodies, One Night by Dangly Gruffnuts (Dunedin)
Nothing like an unwanted stiff to ruin your night

Beyond Belief by Lense Flare (Peter Jackson Wildcard)
Witness the unbelievable but true story of the backward man

F*Dance (Peter Jackson Wildcard)
Dance, by Puppy Guts (Wellington)

In Search of Bigfoot (Peter Jackson Wildcard)
Animal, by Goodfellas (Auckland)

The final two Wildcards were revealed in the Time Out section of the Herald today along with comments by Peter Jackson.

'V' 48HOURS - C4, JULY 3RD, 8.30pm - Rated M for aMazing

If home viewers don't agree with the esteemed Judges they can cast their votes after the Grand Final at www.c4tv.co.nz. The team that gets the most votes wins a thousand bucks.

Auckland Grand Final

Where : Belgium Beer Cafe, cnr Ponsonby and College Hill
When : Thur July 3rd, from 7pm, show starts 8.30pm
Come along and celebrate the 2-hour TV Grand FInal on C4 by watching it with 48 hour friends and fiends.

Everyone is welcome from 7pm onwards. The TV show starts 8.30pm. Be great to see a good sized crowd there. Come along and support the teams in the Grand Final... as well as all the nominees for the other awards... Teen, Cinematography, Sexiest, Spicy, All Girl etc

Wellington

The Wellington Sports Cafe are putting the Grand Final on the big screen! So please join us to watch the 2008 national finals in style, this Thursday from 8pm. It'd be great to watch it with as many 48HOURS teams as possible. And feel free to invite everyone you know - the more the merrier!

Christchurch Meet

Yellowcross (upstairs)
3 Sol Square
corner of Lichfield & Manchester St
From about 7pm

Dunedin

The C4 Grand Final is screening in Dunedin at the Starters Bar - a new bar, situated in the same site that used to be the Oriental Tavern - where we had the launch for the 48 hours last year - on the corner of Clyde and Fredrick Street.
The doors open at 7.30pm, show starts at 8.30pm in a large section at the back of Starters with a huge screen, state-of-the-art heating system, separate bar and enough room for up to 300 people, so it's definitely a 'come one, come all' affair - if we get over 50 people through the door they'll discount the drinks... see you there!

03/07/08