1 2 3 and I’m awake again. Wow, has it really been a week?

After much planning and other people’s hard work the 2nd Branchage Jersey International Film Festival exploded across the channel islands last week. As part of the parade of brilliance Vauxhall kindly sponsored a 48hr Road Movie Challenge, an addition to the festival that my brother and I had more than a hand in.

Unlike other such events this challenge was open by invitation only to five teams. The results are five really quite brilliant six minute films, all of which show just quite how much can be achieved in two days if you know what you’re about. More about those later, in the meantime, here’s us making ours…



In these pictures are my brother Chris, our friend and regular conspirator the writer Ms.Katie McCullough and stepping into our tent at the end there the immaculate Mr.Phil Clyde-Smith who acted as co-ordinator or Games Master for the Vauxhall 48hr Road-Movie Challenge.

Dry and so laid back as to be almost horizontal, Phil was the perfect man in the middle. Rather than adding to the ever present sense of chaos and disaster that follows you when you’re trying to make a film in two days flat, Phil was the calm at the eye of the storm, always ready to suggest a location or dig out an extra pair of hands to help us all.

More photographic stories of our recent Jersey based antics will shuffle forth over the next few days… and soon the finished films will also be coming to a computer screen near you.