THE PRESS, Christchurch
Monday, July 2, 2012 NEWS A5
■ 48 HOUR FILM FESTIVAL FINALS
■ BISHOP ORDINATION
Staying
true to
himself
Chch pupils win two
awards for their films
Francesca Lee and Fairfax
Two teams of young Christchurch film-makers have won
awards at the 48 Hour Film
Festival finals in Auckland.
Jacinta Giles and Kelleigh
Rowe, of Kaiapoi High School
team JK, won the Rialto
Channel Rising Talent Award
with their film Lucky In Love?
and Riccarton High School’s
Year 12 team Oozy Rats In a
Sanitary Zoo was given the
Best School Team award for
their film Something’s Rotten
in the School of Redmark.
‘‘It was a massive shock,’’
said Brent Morrison, media
studies teacher at Kaiapoi
High School.
‘‘We weren’t expecting to
win it. The girls are stoked.’’
Oozy Rats organiser and
Riccarton High School media
studies teacher Paddy Scott
said the team finished their
film in 24 hours instead of the
allotted 48.
‘‘It’s pretty remarkable.’’
It was the second time
Riccarton has entered, and
Scott said there was a lot of
interest in the competition
and in film production at the
school.
‘‘It will grow from here.’’
Snack time: A scene from the short film Something’s Rotten in the
School of Redmark which won the Best School Team award for Riccarton
High School’s Year 12 team Oozy Rats In a Sanitary Zoo.
The national finals were
held in the Civic Theatre in
Auckland on Saturday night.
‘‘It was like New Zealand’s
version of the Oscars, but
much more laid-back,’’ said
Christchurch festival organiser Andrew Todd. ‘‘There
were about 2000 people there
watching 13 films.’’
‘‘It was quite nice,’’ said
Press reporter Charlie Gates,
who was part of the team
Picton Pictures which won
the Christchurch final with
the shadow puppet film, An
Inconvenient Hoof.
‘‘Christchurch is quite
unique in that it’s the only
place where they get lots of
schools entering.’’
Wellington team Noise and
Pictures claimed the top prize,
the Golden Ape, with their
zombie film Brains?.
The film, one of more than
800 made and submitted
within 48 hours in May, is a
The shoes he regretted
wearing on his wedding day
were thrown out and
Wellington’s new free-spirited
bishop was ordained in his
true barefoot style.
Waikanae commune cofounder Justin Duckworth, 44,
walked without shoes along
the wet pavement in the
procession on Saturday
around Wellington Cathedral
of St Paul, where he was
officially ordained to his seat.
About 1500 people packed
into the cathedral to see the
country’s first dreadlocked
bishop ordained, including
the 140 family and supporters
who led him in.
Duckworth said he was
told ‘‘don’t you dare change’’
by the Anglican bishops who
voted him in to his Wellington
seat, he said.
‘‘They said: ‘We don’t want
you to change, we want you to
help us change.’’
He had spent his whole
adult life barefoot, even on
winter days when he studied
at Victoria University. But to
this day, he regretted doing
the ‘‘proper’’ thing and wearing shoes to marry his wife,
Jenny.
‘‘When it came to getting
ordained, I thought, ‘No, I am
going to get ordained true to
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who I am.’’’
tender look at a group of
zombies having their dinner
party of brains and spinal
fluid interrupted by a human
zombie killer.
Noise and Pictures won
more than $60,000 in cash and
prizes.
Brains? director Giles
McNeill, who led a team of 16
people, said there was ‘‘quite a
lot of buzz’’ before the finals
about the group’s film and he
thought it would do well.
Winning the competition
was not something he
expected, however.
‘‘Even as they called out
who the winner was, the
moment before that I was still
doubting that it could have
been us.
‘‘[We were] leaping for joy.
We were ecstatic and surprised and kind of relieved, I
guess.’’
Second place went to Auckland team Lense Flare, who
created a single-shot film, The
Girl with the Clover Tattoo,
that shuttled back and forth in
time, trying to dissect the
mystery of a dead partygoer.
Third place went to
another Auckland entry, animated short Love in Decay, a
post-apocalyptic love story.
■ COURTS
Guy murder trial enters final phase
sider its verdict on one charge
of murder.
Ewen Macdonald has
denied killing Scott Guy by
shooting him twice at the end
of Guy’s driveway in Feilding
on July 8, 2010, over tensions
about the future of the family
farm.
The jury of 11 will have
with them all the exhibits
presented in the case from
both the Crown and defence.
The evidence wound up
last week with the jury
hearing about forensic testing
on the farm shotgun, plaster
casts of footprints from the
murder scene and an agreement with the defence from a
Crown witness that a size
nine Proline dive boot could
not have made the impressions.
The trial has generated
such intense public interest
that queues have formed each
day to sit in the public gallery
with up to 100 people waiting
to get in.
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Free spirit: Barefooted
Bishop Justin Duckworth,
with his dreadlocks under
his mitre, walks around the
Cathedral of St Paul, in
Wellington, after his
ordination. Photo: FAIRFAX NZ
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