The 48 Hour Film Project is a contest in which teams of filmmakers are assigned a genre, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue, and then have 48 hours to create a short film containing those elements. The Project was inspired by The 24 Hour Plays Project and has existed since 2001. It was created by Mark Ruppert and is produced by Ruppert and Liz Langston. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

List of participating cities (years cities participated in parentheses):

• Aberdeen, South Dakota (2005-present)
• Asheville (2005-present)
• Atlanta (2002-present)
• Auckland, New Zealand (2003 - present) Now NZ only 48HOURS - New Zealand
• Austin (2002-present)
• Baltimore (2005-present)
• Boston (2003-present)
• Brisbane, Australia (2004-present)
• Chicago (2005-present)
• Cincinnati (2003-present)
• Denver (2005-present)
• Des Moines (2005-present)
• Greensboro (2004-present)
• Houston (2005-present)
• Las Vegas (2005-present)
• Little Rock (2005-present)
• London, England (2004)
• Los Angeles (2002-present)
• Miami (2005-present)
• Minneapolis (2004-present)
• Nashville (2003-present)
• New York (2002-present)
• Paris, France (2005-present)
• Philadelphia (2002-present)
• Phoenix (2005-present)
• Portland, Oregon (2004-present)
• San Diego (2004-present)
• San Francisco (2003-present)
• Seattle (2005-present)
• Sheffield, England (2004)
• St. Louis (2004-present)
• Washington, DC (2001-present)

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See also

• 24-hour comic
• International 3-Day Novel Contest
• February Album Writing Month
• NaNoWriMo

• • 48HOURS - New Zealand

 The Biggest Prizes for a Weekend Filmmaking Competition, Most Competitors Per Capita + Peter Jackson as Jugde 

A 24-hour comic is a 24 page comic book written, drawn, and completed in 24 hours. ... The International 3-Day Novel Contest is a literary marathon that runs every Labour Day Weekend. ... February Album Writing Month, or FAWM, is a collaborative songwriting challenge wherein participants hold each other accountable to write 14 songs in the 28 days of February (one song every other day, on average). ... NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is a creative writing project originating in the United States in which each participant attempts to write a fifty-thousand-word novel in a single month. ...

External links

• 48 Hour Film Project Official Site