The judges have deliberated, the scratching and clawing is over. What remains are mostly flesh wounds. These are the nominees for awards (presented in alphabetical order) for the 2011 San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project. Best Use of Prop: Compulsion, Killin’ It In Reno, Mum Best Use of Genre: How the Spot Was Won, Roomies, […]
Category Archives: Short Film
San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project: Audience Choice Group D
The ballots are counted and the top finishers in the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project Audience Choice Award for Screening Group D are here. On June 10, teams set out to make a short film in just two days. All of the films submitted were screened at the Lumiere Theater in San Francisco. Over […]
San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project: Audience Choice Group C
The ballots are counted and the top finishers in the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project Audience Choice Award for Screening Group C are here. On June 21, audiences at San Francisco’s Lumiere Theater saw a dozen of the films created by competitors in the world’s oldest and largest time-based filmmaking competition. They voted for […]
They Will Not Quit
One team of San Francisco independent filmmakers seems irresistibly drawn to competition and apparently will not let anything stop them. It Donned On Me has been competing in the 48 Hour Film Project for years in both San Francisco and in San Jose. In all, they’ve created 21 short films including some 15 submitted to […]
Go Green, It Works, Maybe
The folks from Viral Media Networks charmed audiences with a short film for the San Francisco 2011 Go Green competition. They had just one weekend to create this (as is tradition for 48 Hour Film Project events) and they were assigned a character, line of dialog and a prop. This story was a finalist for […]
Love in Any Direction
The Boston 48 Hour Film Project is one of the most competitive and one of the longest-running in the 90 city field. This 2011 winner demonstrates just what magic can be created in just the space of a weekend. If you don’t believe that 7 minutes on screen is enough to tell a compelling story, […]
You really already know the answer…
You do in fact, know the answer to this age old question, but it’s not really the answer you’re after — it’s the sound of a tree falling in the forest on a guy clapping with one hand… Who signs for the check? [blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/hYsRgZvMHAI%5D We just can’t turn this off, even though we knew […]
Ovation Pictures pounds the streets
We hear that multi-hit competitors from the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project have screenings twice this Memorial Day weekend. They are featured at San Francisco’s RAW: Inspire reception as well as Official Selection at the Bodega Bay International Short Film Festival. Their appearance at the RAW:artists event was inspired by their vigorous participation in […]
Help a Slacker Out
…the folks at the Austin Film Society are scheming up a special event that is sure to delight fans of Richard Linklater’s milepost film, Slacker. The idea is to present a remake that incorporates work from filmmakers all over the world. This could be the chance you’ve been waiting for to create an homage to […]
Time to Incite
San Francisco arts community organization RAW has generously welcomed some of the best from the 48 Hour Film Project community to exhibit their work alongside other hot Bay Area artists. For the month of May, we’ll be seeing work from Square Marden (formerly Barkada Inc. talent) as an appropos launch to the competition season. Their […]