Winter International Film Festival Antarctica

The overwintering expedition team members at SANAE IV participated in the annual Winter International Film Festival for Antarctica, WIFFA.

Also commonly known as the 48 hour film festival. Each year research stations from all over Antarctica partake in this joyful event making a short film with a story line of their choice and expedition members show casing their acting skills. This year, 15 countries representing 25 stations have entered the festival. Making it a big group of entrants this year. So nothing professional really, just for the fun of it.

Each station gets only 48 hours to shoot and compile their film, where they must include five random items. This year the items were chosen by different stations at random. The five items that needs to be part of the film is a sound, an object, famous quote, a famous character and an action chosen by a random station.

These items were as follow:

– Sound : Duck quack

– Object: Dumbbell

– Famous quote: It was the best of time, it was the worst of time. Charles Dickens

– Famous Character: Mickey Mouse

– Action : Piggyback race

During a snow storm, the S62 team came together with many ideas and excitement to start filming the various scenes. We managed to get most of the scenes done as planned and with the amount of time available. Open the link below to view our film and films from the other stations.

https://www.wiffa.aq/en/film/1068

Happy viewing!!! More about the film festival is available at; http://www.wiffa.aq