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WHO NEEDS SLEEP?
48 Hour Film Project set for June 12-14
By Clare S. Richie
What did you do last weekend? Eat out, run errands,
and read the paper? The weekend of June 12-14,
hundreds of Georgia filmmakers will write, shoot, edit,
score and master a completed movie. They’re competing
in the 14th Annual Atlanta 48 Hour Film Project
(48HFP) designed to encourage filmmakers, from
newbies to veterans, to show their stuff.
At the Friday evening kick-off hosted by production
sponsor PC&E, teams receive the three required
elements that must be included in each of the 48HFP
films: a character, prop and line of dialogue. Elements
for 2014 were included a character named Dr. Oliver or
Olivia Sandman, the prop was a peach and the line of
dialogue was “I’m gonna tell you a secret.” After each
team draws a genre (like comedy or sci-fi), it’s on. Teams
must submit their 4-7 minute films Sunday evening.
“Our goal for 2015
is one hundred teams,
” said Paula Martinez,
co-producer of the
project. This is nearly
double what she and
co-producer Gabe
Wardell started with in
2009. Atlanta is now
the 4th largest 48 HFP
out of 130 cities in the
world, trailing only
Paris, Eos Angeles and
Washington D.C.
The competition relies on key sponsors like Atlanta
Movie Tours, All About Props, NorCostco, Tunewelders,
and the Georgia Office of
Entertainment - “who recognize that
the local crews and actors making
short 48HFP films will be staffing
the big-budget Hollywood films and
TV shows being shot here,” Martinez
said.
Unlike other film festivals, every
completed film will premier on the
big screen at Landmark Midtown Art
Cinema, June 22-25. The screenings
are open to the public, appropriate
for tweens and older and cost regular
movie-ticket prices.
Audiences vote for their
favorites then a jury of industry
professionals meet to identify the
winners of various categories. On
July 16, at the Best of Show and
Awards Ceremony, the results are
revealed and the winning films are
re-shown to filmmakers and fans.
Best Film winners advance to the International Finals at
Filmapalooza in Los Angeles to compete against winners
from around the world.
“The 48 Hour [Film Project] was a beautiful
whirlwind of a weekend!” said Kristina Adler, Jump
Cut Collective director and producer. Her team’s film,
“Backtrack,” took home the 2014 Best Film honors.
Adler recalled scrapping their dramatic, dark route
halfway through the shoot and went for something
unexpected and funny with a time travel scenario
instead. The film was submitted with about 15 minutes to
spare until the deadline.
“After we won the audience award in our first round,
one of the biggest production companies competing
reached out saying that even outside the competition
they wanted to help support female directors and writers,
which really meant the world to me,” Adler said.
Backtrack went on to be screened at the TCL Chinese
Theatre in Los Angeles at Filmapalooza. “It felt like
we managed to magically skip some steps and years to
screen there,” Adler commented.
“If you think you want to make a film, the 48
Hour Film Project is the perfect entry way, because it’s
accessible to everyone,” Martinez said.
For more, visit 48hourfilm.com/atlanta. 03
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