The 48 Hour Film Project

The 2009 Tour Concludes

After 76 cities in 17 countries on 4 continents, the 48HFP 2009 Tour is complete. It's been an incredible year, filled with wild stories of amazing filmmaking.

The Best Film in each city goes on to screen at Filmapalooza (our end-of-year screening and awards extravaganza) in April 2010 in Las Vegas, and a selection of the very best films will screen at the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner in May 2010.

Congratulations, all! We're so proud of your great work!

International Shootout

On December 4-7, 48HFP teams from around the world will compete head-to-head in the International Shootout.

The winning film will screen at Filmapalooza and at the Cannes Film Festival!

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Participating Teams:
3TP • 4thCollective • 5PM Productions • Adam Squared • Adventure Star Pictures • Alltogether Now • Bait & Tackle Ad Company • Bande a part • before all this, inc. • Big Appetite • DC Dogs • Detroit Police Athletic League Golf... • Drywater Productions • Echo Productions • Field of Wheat Productions • Good Karma • illadelPhilms • INGSOC • It Donned On Me • Kobra Kommander • Kontraproductions • La Crisi • Ma's Meatloaf • Pandemonium • Paradise Valley Media • Perpombellar • Pineapple Pictures • Purple Squirrel Productions • Sheng • shimshon • Sky Bears • Stroganoff • The Dada Factory • The Degrassi Junior High Alumni Society • Tohubohu • Transvideo Studios • Vegan Cannibals Prod. • Wax Idiotical Films • WIT Films (onesixtyone) • Zing Boom

Filmapalooza comes to NAB Show in Las Vegas from April 10th to 12th, 2010.

Who: 48 Hour Filmmakers from around the world.
What: The best 48HFP films from 2009
Where: NAB Show
When: from April 10th to 12th, 2010
Why: Inspiration, education, networking, and fun!

We will screen all the winning films from 2009, including the 48HFP US and International City Winners (76 cities!), the International Shootout winner, the Panasonic HD Showdown Winner, and more!

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The 48 Hour Film Project
48HFP Shorts: Best of 2008!
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See the work of some of the most creative up-and-coming indie filmmakers in the world! These top films, all created in 48 hours—including using an assigned genre, character, prop, and line of dialogue—will impress you with their movie-making skills and imagination. And they just screened at the Miami International Film Festival.

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What We're About

The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours.

On Friday night, you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete.

Then it will show at a local theater, usually in the next week.

In 2008, some 30,000 filmmakers made films in 70 cities. This year, we're even bigger, with filmmakers all over the world taking the challenge to make a film in just 48 hours.

Want to learn more? See press about us, read our mission or watch some of our films.