Day One

For 2010's V48 Hours Film Competition I joined a newly formed team of freelancers "Loaded Gunn". All whom were new to the competition. The weekend was a blast and this was the bi-product.

Winner, Best Female Director

Winner, Best Female Team

Winner, Best Dolly Zoom

Nominated, Best Actress Chelsea Bognuda

Voted Audience Favourite in Heat 8.


This film was made as part of V48hours 2010. V48hours is a film competition in New Zealand, where filmmakers are given a genre and 4 elements and then attempt to write, shoot, edit and hand in a short film within 48hours.

Genre : Bio-pic

Line of dialogue : When you look at it that way

Character : Sydney Manson (A Fabricator)

Object : Broken toy

Shot : Dolly zoom

Starring : Chelsea Bognuda & Kenneth Gaffney

Cinematographer : Nina Wells

Editor : Jason Wang

Writer : Johanna Besaw 

Director : Francesca Jago

This film is the original cut that was screened (no corrections or amendments were made)