48 Hour Film Project
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The 48 Hour Film Project is a contest in which teams of filmmakers are assigned a genre, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue, and have 48 hours to create a short film containing those elements. Shortly after the 48 hours of filmmaking, the films from each city are then screened at a theater in that city. The Project was inspired by The 24 Hour Plays. It has existed since 2001. It was created by Mark Ruppert and is produced by Ruppert and Liz Langston. In 2006, it had over 1200 films and 17000 participants.
[edit] List of participating cities
Years cities participated are in parentheses.
- Aberdeen, South Dakota (2005)
- Asheville (2005-present)
- Albuquerque (2006-present)
- Atlanta (2002-present)
- Auckland, New Zealand (2003; see below)
- Austin (2002-present)
- Baltimore (2005-present)
- Black Rock City (2005-present)
- Boston (2003-present)
- Brisbane, Australia (2004-present)
- Chicago (2005-present)
- Cincinnati (2003-present)
- Denver (2005-present)
- Des Moines (2005-present)
- Fargo (2006-present)
- Greensboro (2004-present)
- Houston (2005-present)
- Las Vegas (2005-present)
- Little Rock (2005-present)
- London, England (2004)
- Los Angeles (2002-present)
- Louisville (2006-present)
- Miami (2005-present)
- Minneapolis (2004-present)
- Nashville (2003-present)
- New York (2002-present)
- Paris, France (2005-present)
- Philadelphia (2002-present)
- Phoenix (2005-present)
- Portland, Maine (2006-present)
- Portland, Oregon (2004-present)
- San Diego (2004-present)
- San Francisco (2003-present)
- Seattle (2005-present)
- Sheffield, England (2004)
- St. Louis (2004-present)
- Washington, DC (2001-present)
The organizers of the Auckland competition split off from the 48 Hour Film Project after the 2003 competition and formed 48HOURS, which is now a wholly separate organization that runs a similar competition in New Zealand.
In 2003, the creators of the 48 Hour Film Project created the National Film Challenge, which is an annual three-day film competition with roughly the same structure as the 48 Hour Film Project, except that the films are mailed in when completed and then screened on-line, rather than being shown in a local city.
