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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 their favorites and their final decision will be announced on Sunday night (July 10).

For Screening Group C, here are the names of the 3 finalists (in alphabetical order).

The Love Drug – The Red Eye Jedis
Paranoid Passion – Stabbing My Jelly!
Repo Session – It Donned On Me

To find out who won the coveted award, be sure and join us on Sunday night, July 10 for the Awards and Highlights Night. Tickets are $10 online or at the door.

San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project: Audience Awards Group B

The ballots are counted and the top finishers in the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project Audience Choice Award for Screening Group B 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 the 4-day run of the screenings, ballots were cast by the audience on each night to determine the winner of the coveted Audience Choice Award.

For Screening Group B, here are the names of the 3 finalists (in alphabetical order).

The Ausmerican Dream – Libido Mosquito
Jeb – Whiskey Films
Killin’ It In Reno – Team Rock!t

We will release the names of the finalists in the other screening groups throughout the week.

To find out who won the coveted award, be sure and join us on Sunday night, July 10 for the Awards and Highlights Night. Tickets are $10 online or at the door.

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 the 48 Hour FiLm Project and related competitions.

This film was created in 2010 for the International Doc Challenge and it addressed a topic that for many of us, is still on our minds. Whatever your particular viewpoint on the issue, you must admit that the stories of these real people are compelling, and adeptly told.

You can see how they did in the 2011 San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project by being at the Awards and Highlights Night. Their entry, Repo Session is a candidate among a field of nearly 55 filmmaking teams who took on the challenge of creating a story on film in just one weekend.

Tickets are $10 at the door.

San Francisco 48HFP Audience Choice (Group A)

The ballots are counted and the top finishers in the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project Audience Choice Award for Screening Group A are here.

For Screening Group A, there was a tie for third, so we present four finalists.

Group A finalists (in random order)

True North – EyeQ Films
Live Repo – International High School
The Shakedown – Sixty Sixers with Fifi and Fanny
How The Spot Was Won – Chinese Takeout

We will release the names of the finalists in the other screening groups throughout the week.

To find out who won the coveted award, be sure and join us on Sunday night for the Awards and Highlights Night. Tickets are $10 online or at the door.

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 Audience Choice Award in their category.

Everybody now knows (if they didn’t before) that the main reason to be environmentally conscious is so that you can get chicks!

If you’d like to see what this team created for the 2011 San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project, be there on July 10th for the Highlights and Awards Night.

Look for the details here (link to Awards Night info goes here)

San Francisco 48HFP Awards Announced

The details are official! The 2011 Awards and Highlights show for the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project will be held at Madrone Studios in San Francisco’s SOMA district.

The location for the event was selected not only for its suitability for an awards and screening event, but also because the facility is an interesting resource for independent media producers in the SF Bay Area. Madrone Studios boasts a sound stage, dressing and kitchen facilities, equipment and technical support suitable for public events and indoor film shoots, and a friendly, competent, and professional staff.

2011 San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project
Awards and Highlights Show
July 10, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Madrone Studios
1417 15th, San Francisco 94103
Tickets $10 (advance purchase, or at the door)

On June 10th, nearly 55 teams of independent filmmakers set out to create a short film (4-7 minutes) in a mere 48 hours. They were given a prop, line of dialog and a character that had to be included in the film. Then, to make matters more interesting, they were randomly assigned a genre. Their job was to write, shoot, edit and deliver the film by the evening of June 12th.

The films were seen by San Francisco audiences between June 15th and June 22nd. Then a jury of industry professionals, film community leaders, and festival producers reviewed the films to determine merit in a number of areas.

At the Awards and Highlights show, the awards will be announced, and a dozen of the films will be screened, interspersed with comments from the jurists.

There’s more of course. Awards will be presented for merit in the realm of community contribution, festival organization and more. Appearances by past award winners in several categories are also expected.

For fans of locally produced independent media, this is an evening not to miss.

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, we invite you to take a look at this charmer.

San Francisco filmmakers have recently completed their competition weekend and the films are currently screening.

We invite you to see the San Francisco entries in screening groups C and D. (Premiering at the Lumiere Theater on Tue 6/21 and Wed 6/22).

There’s nothing like being there for the first night.

The Chummers

This entry from the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Project 2010 season brought together a large alliance of Bay Area talent.

One fan of the film told us quietly, “Sit forward in your seat, see with your heart, and there’s a payoff at the end of this journey. I’m really glad I saw this story.”

We have to agree.

The 2011 competition kicks off tonight with nearly 60 teams out to create a short film in only two days. The films will be submitted on Sunday night and they will be screened in San Francisco beginning on Wed, June 15. You can get tickets now if you’d like to see what magic these filmmakers will create.

Kitchens and Booze

Two great tastes that go great together.

There has been a definite explosion of cooking shows in the webseries domain. So if you want to start a new one, you have to find a creative approach.

So here’s a good receipe. Take 3 parts Adorable Hannah Hart, add 2 fifths of tequila in a mason jar, and throw in some taco fixings for atmosphere — stir well and enjoy!

Be sure you hire someone to clean up afterward.

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?

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We just can’t turn this off, even though we knew the ending!