Watch the Grand National Champion and find out how to see all this year’s 48Hours finalists.
A professional dog walker, a self-help podcast and a minefield combine to explosive effect in this year’s 48Hours Grand National Champion. Wellington team Traces of Nut took home top honours at Saturday’s Grand Finals at Auckland’s Civic Theatre with their short Good Girl, which you can watch below.
Traces of Nut also won Best Director and Best Script at the Grand Finals, a night which saw them take home the top prize for a second time after 2013’s National Champion Award for The Sleeping Plot.
Grand National Runner-up was Apple Fork with A Matter of Time (“An inventive man gets more than he bargained for when he messes with time travel”) and Mitchell’s Here aka Flicks’ own Liam Maguren was Grand National Second Runner-up with Āta (“A simple being ventures to The Great Altar. What they witness cannot be unseen”).
Across the 18 finalists, plenty more awards were presented on the night—you can check out the full list of winners here.
And, excitingly, The top 18 Grand Finalists will be screened in a special TV event on TVNZ 2 at 9.30pm, May 27th before becoming available to watch on the Re: News platform from May 28th.
