The 48 1/2 Hour Film Challenge
Fri, Nov 02
|Queen of the Square Cinema
Time & Location
Nov 02, 2018, 7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Queen of the Square Cinema, Stratford, ON, Canada
About the event
“Small is underrated. Fringe is underrated. Local and independent are far too often underrated. Instead of looking beyond Stratford to Toronto, and beyond Toronto to Hollywood we should be fostering creative genius among ourselves. Telling stories in and about our neighbourhoods, and produced, written by, starring, and directed by people like ourselves. Otherwise we leave it to an extremely small group of moneymen in far away places to sell us a homogenized version of reality that barely, if at all, reflects our communities.”- Leigh (opening remarks 2017)
It's your chance to stop talking and start filming! The premise? Filmmaking teams have just one weekend to make a short film. All creativity—writing, shooting, editing and adding a musical soundtrack—must occur in a 48 hour window beginning Friday October 12th at 4:00pm and ending Sunday at 4:30pm. The following week, the completed films are screened to an eager audience.
At the beginning…