Over the weekend of 23-25 September, hundreds of Adelaide filmmakers will race to produce a film in just 48 hours.
The 48 Hour Film Project started as a local film challenge among friends in the U.S. in 2001. Since then, it has evolved into a global phenomenon and the world’s largest timed filmmaking competition, challenging more than 600,000 people across over 130 cities and six continents to complete a film in a mere 48 hours.
2015 marked the inaugural year for the Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project, since then over 200 short films have been created by local filmmakers, actors and creatives as part of the competition. Each year, approximately 400 local filmmakers take to the streets of Adelaide and beyond for one frenzied weekend of filmmaking.
Kristen Hamill and Laura Franklin are the Adelaide City Producers overseeing the challenge as it returns this year from 23-25 September.
“We are looking forward to another big year for the Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project with hundreds of filmmakers hitting the streets in late September to compete for the title of Best Film,” said Ms Hamill.
“An amazing creative community has built up around the 48HFP which makes it even more exciting to watch our filmmakers return year after year. There’s nothing quite like this challenge.”
On Friday 23 September, participating teams will gather at the competition kick-off where they will be given a genre, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue they must work into their film. The teams must then write, shoot, edit and score their films in just 48 hours. The films must be 4-7 minutes in duration and must be submitted by 7.30pm on Sunday 25 September to be eligible for judging.
All submitted films will be screened to the public at Palace Nova Eastend Cinema and judged by a panel of industry experts. Films nominated for prizes will be shown at the Best of 2022 Awards Night on Saturday 5 November at the Palace Nova East End Cinema.
“The Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project is a weekend filled with creativity, skill building, and storytelling. It is a weekend fuelled by passion, friendship, a few competition guidelines and also lots of coffee,” says Ms. Franklin. “I love the 48HFP as it’s a weekend you can spend with your mates making something fun that we get to watch on the big screen and potentially win a few prizes for. It’s a chance for people to step out of their shell, meet like-minded people, have a few laughs and do something different.”
Adelaide’s Best Film will go up against films from around the world at Filmapalooza 2023 in Los Angeles for a chance at the grand prize and an opportunity to screen at the Cannes Film Festival 2023, Court Métrage.
Registration for the competition is open now at their website, www.48hourfilm.com/adelaide, and will close Friday 23 September.
To encourage diverse storytelling as part of the Adelaide 48 Hour Film competition this year, the 48 Hour team is pleased to offer the 48HFP Indigenous & Multicultural Filmmaker’s Grant. This grant is open to Aboriginal, Torres Strait Island and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse filmmakers residing in South Australia to enable them to participate in the competition. Four grant recipients will receive up to $500 in total to support production and registration costs. Grant applications are now open here.
