Last weekend, Las Vegas not only hosted the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention, it also was this year's kick off point for the ninth annual 48 Hour Film Project.
From the website:
"The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours.
On Friday night, you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete. Then it will show at a local theater, usually in the next week.
In 2008, some 30,000 filmmakers made films in 70 cities. This year, we're even bigger, with filmmakers around the world taking the challenge to make a film in just 48 hours."
48 Hour Film Project hits Salt Lake City May 15th to the 17th and screenings of the films will be the following weekend. Teams are forming, get yours together now! Registration is $155 for teams of any size. Finished films are four to seven minutes in length.