“A cheeky, slightly creepy male babysitter entertains his charge by creating a fairytale where they are the heroes in an enchanted land.” - www.nzshortfilm.com, 20/7/2011.
Auckland regional winner and then Grand National Winner of the 2005 48Hours filmaking competition. The genre Team Crash Zoom were given to work in was ‘fairytale’.
“In 2005 the [48Hours] competition became a truly national competition with Christchurch and Dunedin joining the chaos and 270 teams entering the competition ... And in one of the greatest comback stories of all time, the inaugural [2003] winners Team Crash Zoom returned and took the crown once again with the charmingly weird A FAIRLY GOOD TALE. - ‘The History of 48Hours’, www.v48hours.co.nz, 20 July, 2011.
Required elements were: a character - R. Moellering, hypochondriac; a prop - a wine bottle; and a line of dialogue - "It was like that when I got here."