Rialto Channel furious filmmaking competition Otago and Southland manager Craig Storey said he was always amazed at the quality of work that teams were able to produce in 48 hours.
''Some of these films look like they have had months of development in them.''
The competition ran ''remarkably smooth'' this year, with far fewer late-night calls from film-makers with big problems.
The event, which was now in its 11th year, had reached a maturity and even first-timers were competent, he said.
A ''shattered'' University of Otago law student Aaron Smith, who was the assistant director of the film shoot pictured , said the weekend was ''carnage'', but he was happy with the finished product.
His team, the Eleventh Plague, made a film about a man who was on a search for his abducted wife.
Much like the film crew, the main character was in a ''race against time''.
