Every year, there’s a competition called the 48 Hour Film Project. It goes to cities all around the world and has filmmaking teams create a short film in just 48 hours. That’s all the time they get for scripting, preproduction, production, and post production. Then all the films are screened, and some of the best from each city will compete in world-wide festival of all the best 48 hour projects. One will be chosen as the best in the world.
And this year, for the first time in the 48 Hour Film Project’s 7 year history, Detroit will have it’s chance to play!
Not date has been set, but according to the website Detroit will get it’s shot “Probably in August”.
This contest should be TONS of fun. Along with the tight time constraints, the judges will pick your team’s genre, as well as assign you either a prop, character, or line of dialogue which MUST appear in the film. In addition, since Detroit is having it’s first year, there must be at least one landmark within city limits in the film.
And yes, you can bet I’m going to be trying this. That is, if I can get myself a cast and crew to take with me!