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 then have 48 hours to create a short film containing those elements. 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.
[edit] External links
- 48 Hour Film Project Official Site
- Catalogue of films that were made as part of the 48 Hour Film Project
- The National Film Challenge
