Each year now in August, independent filmmakers who have planned for this (sometimes all year) set out to create a short film in just 48 Hours. They begin with a prop, line of dialog, and a character. They draw their genre randomly from our cruel film tin! Then they set out to bring in a […]
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The Actors’ Sandbox – Bay Area Edition
The folks at San Jose 48 Hour Film Project have created a special opportunity for Bay Area independent media producers to meet talented local actors and other producers. It’s called The Actors’ Sandbox. It is for actors, producers, directors, and especially for 48HFP team leaders. On Saturday, July 30th, in partnership with Schoolhouse Earth, and […]
SF 48 Hour Film Project 2011 Awards Nominees
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, […]
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 […]
A Man Alone
Most participating teams in the 48 Hour Film Project are comprised of somewhere between 8 and 24 team members. The largest team consisted of 120 people and 29 horses. The smallest team consists of 1 person. Perhaps the most noteworthy one-man team is Bill Dyzel from Cinema Solo. He has competed 29 times in 10 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. 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 […]
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 […]