Nice work if you can get it

A JOB WELL DONE: In this still from Gisborne film crew Kratos's winning 48Hours film-making competition entry, A Job Worth Keeping, Jol Sparks (foreground) as Chuck's (Pat Butler) boss suffers from one of two incidents in the short movie. Picture supplied

And the gorilla goes to Gisborne 48Hours film festival winners . . . Kratos (SFX — crowd goes wild).

For the third time in a row the Kratos film crew — Jol Sparks, Clarke Allen, Grant Ensor, Jared Rofe, Jonathan Poole, Matt Rofe, Pat Butler, Wayne Ensor, Chris Rofe and cameraman Jordan Perry — have taken home the gorilla trophy known as the Apee for their film A Job Worth Keeping.

From a range of genres that included crime, splatter, musical and sci-fi, Kratos was designated the redemption movie.

From character types — the reluctant, unlikely, or anti-hero, Kratos chose “unlikely”. As with all teams, the Kratos crew was required to include in their story the elements of something invisible, heartbeat and a reaction shot.

With only 48 hours to write, shoot and edit the movie, the Kratos crew split up, tossed ideas around, brought them all together and mapped out the story.

No spoilers will be given here but the plot outline of A Job Worth Keeping involves a dissolute employee at an engineering shop, a packet of Rashuns, Mafia-like mobsters, heavy machinery and, of course, redemption.

In their 2019 Apee-award winning film, The Noise of Life, at least two cars were badly injured. A vehicle in A Job Worth Keeping comes off badly as well.

Is this a heavy metal motif in the Kratos oeuvre?

“One of the guys in the team works with cars,” says Perry.

“We get them to a location and do what we like with them.”

In 2018 Kratos won the 48Hours guerrilla film-making competition with their time-travel themed movie, The Great Great Mistake, and took home the Apee again in 2019 for The Noise of Life.

The 2020 festival was cancelled due to the Covid-19 alert level response which means 2021 marks the third time in a row Kratos has good reason to go ape.