The most fun you can have at the movies this weekend isn't joining the throng at your local multiplex - it's watching the 14 finalists in this year's 48Hours Grand Final at The Civic tomorrow night.
The prize-giving in the annual competition - which started with nearly 700 teams around the country spending an April weekend writing, shooting, cutting and panicking - has always been highly entertaining.
The combined effect of watching the inventive films with the finalists and their supporters in attendance makes for an evening where even non-participants get caught up in all that infectious enthusiasm the teams have put into their movies.
As as well as grand champion, there are more than a dozen prizes for everything from technical work and performances to the best use of the character, prop and line every film had to include.
The 14 grand finalists include 10 selected by the competition's overseas judges and a further four wildcards chosen by Sir Peter Jackson.
