Solvent: Award winner in San Jose 2009
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ArtShots Screening and Awards Ceremony
Here’s a show you won’t want to miss. Heroic area filmmakers, prominent Silicon Valley artists and musicians! Arts community movers and shakers. They’re all coming out just to show off for you! So find May 24th on your calendar. Circle it. Line up a babysitter. Tell your boss you’re going to leave the office early. […]
Shovel Ready
All sorts of things can happen that keep us from being home for dinner on time. We just wonder if this 2010 entry in the Washington DC 48 Hour Film Project depicts the sort of thing that might happen to you. Certainly the story reminds us of some things we might do to be better […]
Last Day In the Life
48HFP: Quelques Instants (A Few More Moments)
It’s the Little Things
With 24 hour cable news, disasters reported on Twitter within minutes, and blockbuster movies that shows us dozens of ways that the world can come to an end, we easily forget that it’s the very little things that matter the most in our lives. This charming short film created for the 2009 San Jose 48 […]
The Value of Life
Folks from the Inland Empire 48 Hour Film Project won several awards for this short film about the value of life. We really liked the makeup and special effects. Good work and congratulations to the team. Maybe now we really will give up eating meat!
It is Really French?
When competitors in the 48 Hour Film Project assemble on the Friday night of their weekend, the excitement centers around their selection of a genre. They draw from a hat that has genres from a list known to them in advance. One of the possible choices that most teams fear is “Foreign Film.” The team […]
The Cost of Duty
We were impressed with the ambition of the team that produced this film for the San Jose 48 Hour Film Project. They lined up a spectacular location, an amazing array of authentic military hardware, and wrote a beautiful score to back this tragic story of a woman faced with an imperative of her duty. Vernichter […]
What’s Really Important?
Most of the teams who participate in the 48 Hour Film Project come back with great stories to tell about snafus and adventures they have during filming or production. The team that made this film tells us that they had scheduled a location shoot in a bar that turned out to be open for business […]
When Good Containers Go Bag
Another audience favorite in the 2009 San Jose 48 Hour Film Project brought screams of laughter and groans of respect for the atrocious puns. The writing was over the top, and the stories that these filmmakers brought back from their weekend adventure are the stuff we’ve become accustomed to hearing at 48HFP. Enjoy now, as […]