We got a total of 12 entries in the 48 hour film making competition from around the continent.

The randomly drawn requirements the films had to contain were the following:
-A Cardboard Box
-The character of an FNG  (New Guy)
-The line "What do you mean you want a day off for mid-winter?"
-A bodily noise other than speech.

We received films from:
McMurdo Station -USA (four films)
Scott Base -New Zealand (two films)
Halley -Great Britain
Neumayer -Germany
Casey -Australia
Rothera -Great Britain
Mawson -Australia


The films can be viewed here...
http://cid-f32c1f3f4fb6d9e5.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Antarctic%20Movies

Direct link to the movie from Rothera...
http://greenmug.co.uk/rothera

Be warned, some of the movies contain offensive language, so view at your discretion!

Voting is still underway to decide the winners.
Any winter residents in Antarctica are eligible to vote.

I was most impressed with the overall quality of the films.
We had our screening here at McMurdo on Saturday night to a capacity crowd that had a great time.
There were some very clever ideas of how to integrate the character of the new guy in a winter film. At most stations we have no outside contact with the rest of the world during the winter.

I'll post the results of who won what next week.

In the mean time, light is returning to the sky for us here. The stars have disappeared in the middle of the day now, and the sun is due to peek over the horizon next week for the first time in 4 months.

Here's a picture looking north from Black Island, with some polar stratospheric or nacreous clouds in the sky.
PSCs form when ozone depleting gases in the upper atmosphere crystallize in the extreme cold at this time of the year...