Here's
how it works
The 48 Hour Film Project is the ultimate filmmaking challenge, a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and your team have a blast making a movie!
Making a film isn't so hard, is it?
Here's the catch—you've got to do it all (and we mean ALL, writing, shooting, editing and scoring) to be completed in just 48 hours!
Putting
Together Your Team
You are responsible for putting together your own cast and crew, determining how many people you need on your team, and getting equipment and anything else you need to make a film/video (we do not provide any equipment related resources). There is no limit to how many people are on your team, it can be a one man team to a whole movie crew!
Since you will know your genre only an hour or a few hours before the shoot, and the 3 elements (character, prop, and line) right before the competition begins, our best suggestion is that for your prior planning among your production team, to come up with a script beforehand, but make it a loose script that could easily be tweaked into any genre. For example, you don’t want an overly romantic script just to end up drawing “horror,” and not know how to change it.
For some teams, you might come in without any script in mind yet and that’s fine too. For some teams, having a script first, then tweaking it helps more; while for others, doing all the planning after genre and elements are secured might be a better way to go. There are no rules for this part.
If you need to find more team members with specific skills, or you are looking to join a team, please click HERE to leave your information to start your team matchmaking!
Rules Of The Game
• You and your team must complete a short film of 4-7 mins in length within the 48 hour time frame given by the organizers. Including the ending credits, the film length strictly should not exceed 8 mins total. You must submit your completed film 48 hours later--one minute late is too late! All submitted films will be screened at a local theater. This year, your 48 hours are from 10/04 19:00PM -10/06 19:00PM precisely.
• The project begins with a Kickoff event where each team is a randomly assigned a FILM GENRE. This is done by each team making a drawing at Kickoff, and your film must ultimately reflect that of your assigned genre.
2019 Taipei Edutain 48HFP’s Genre for this year is 30 categories:
1. Action / Adventure
2. Adventure Serial
3. Animal Film
4. Biography
5. Buddy Film
6. Comedy
7. Coming of Age
8. Dark Comedy
9. Detective / Cop
10. Drama
11. Fable
12. Family Film
13. Fantasy
14. Film de Femme
15. Fish Out of Water
16. Holiday Film
17. Horror Film
18. Martial Arts
19. Musical
20. Mystery
21. Period Piece
22. Road Movie
23. Romance
24. Sci Fi
25. Silent Film
26. Slapstick
27. Sports Film
28. Time Travel Film
29. War or Anti-War Film
30. Western
Genre random drawing rules are as follows:
1. We will conduct the Genre drawing according to the registered teams, on Oct 4th, 2019 each team will draw for their film’s genre in person at our event location (Taipei Amba Hotel 西門店).
2. Every team has a total of two draws, if the team confirms their first draw, then they will not need to draw a second time. If the team prefers to draw twice, they can select which genre they prefer.
* Failure to meet any of these basic rules will result in disqualification of your film in the competition (but it will still be screened at the premiere screening).
• Then we will announce a CHARACTER, PROP and LINE of dialogue that must appear in each film 10 minutes before the contest begins.
• In your film, there must a shot or a scene of recognizable Taipei scenery.
• Media: USB Flash Drive or Data DVD
• Mac: ProRes 422 MOV (file with no proprietary codecs on)
• PC: MOV/WMV/MP4 * NO AVI *
• Resolution: FHD(1920x1080) or HD(1280x720)
• Aspect Ratio: 16:9
For further details on rules from the official US 48HFP, please visit : (all rules here also apply to Taipei 48HFP)
http://www.48hourfilm.com/en/filmmakers/rules-official.php
http://www.48hourfilm.com/en/filmmakers/rules-filmmaking.php
Filmapalooza
▲Organizer Dennis Nieh & Express Girl at Filmapalooza
Awards are announced and the winner of "Best Film" in each city will be screened at Filmapalooza. Filmapalooza is the International Film Festival and contest held annually in the United States.
In March of 2014, we sent last year’s “Best City Film”- “Express Girl” to enter in the New Orleans Filmapalooza, and won “Best Titling”！
Next year, we will send this year’s Taipei 48HFP winner to US to compete with worldwide 48HFP winners held. Top winners at Filmapalooza will have the opportunity to be invited to screen at the Cannes Film Festival!
To view 2014 Taipei 48HFP winner, click HERE
For more information on Filmapalooza, visit the official website: http://www.48hourfilm.com/en/filmapalooza/
＊Teams are admitted on a first-come, first-served basis—so register early!
Whether you're a seasoned professional or just getting started, this is the contest for you, it's easy to enter so take action NOW~!