2009 Tour Is Underway

After a tremendous start in Las Vegas, and in the newly added cities of Breda (Netherlands) and Lisbon (Portugal), the 48HFP 2009 Tour will be bringing its high-flying, adrenaline-fueled competition to a city near you!

With more than 80 cities on the schedule, 2009 promises to be our biggest year yet, with as many as 3,000 teams!

And this year, we've added new partners--the NAB Show will host Filmapalooza in Las Vegas in April 2010, and Write Brothers is providing scriptwriting software to each of our city winning teams. We also welcome back Panasonic and Rumblefish. Panasonic is providing our grand prize, a new HD camera, and Rumblefish provides great music at discounted prices.

We look forward to seeing your film!

At the Cannes Film Festival

Fourteen 48HFP films have been selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, the most well-known film festival in the world! Our films will screen at the Short Film Corner as part of the Marche du Film. Below are the films that will screen at the Palais on Tuesday, May 19, at 11:30am.

- "Aidan 5" by Jakson (Columbus)
- "Amaranto" by Urban Team (Rome)
- "Backwoods" by Studio Bib Simmons (Milwaukee)
- "Birthmarked for Death" by Dorkus Rainbowpants (Minneapolis)
- "A Briefcase of Love" by Ghee La Roche (Portland, Maine)
- "Four Minutes Till the End" by Team Film Classics Productions (San Antonio)
- "Fused" by thefyzz (London)
- "The Hall" by Hungry Camera Company (Toronto)
- "Moment of Silence" by Par-t-com Productions (Los Angeles)
- "An Old Scam" by Ha'amoraim (Tel Aviv)
- "Robot Love from Another World" by Pizza Infinity (Cincinnati)
- "Salam" by Indievisual Studios (Honolulu)
- "Transfert" by FatCat Films (Paris)
- "Vaakalaudalla" by New Dawn (Finland)

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Our 2009 Tour

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.