Get out your sunglasses! Filmapalooza—the finale festival for the 2008 48 Hour Film Project—is coming to the Miami International Film Festival in March 2009.

Who: 48 Hour Filmmakers from around the world.
What: The best 48HFP films from 2008
Where: The Miami International Film Festival
When: March 2009
Why: Inspiration, education, networking, and fun!

We'll screen the winning films from our seventy cities around the world, present awards, party down, and more!

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Panasonic HD Filmmaker Showdown

Five US city-winning teams will compete in the 48 Hour Film Project-Panasonic HD Filmmaker Showdown on the weekend of November 14, 2008.

Panasonic will loan each team an HPX500 HD camera (with Fujinon lens, tripod plate, 4 16GB P2 Cards and an HPG10 P2 Gear) for the competition weekend. The winning team will receive an HPX170 HD camera to keep. Also, their film will screen at Filmapalooza in March 2009.

The participating teams are Dorkus Rainbowpants from Minneapolis; More Where That Came From from Denver; Par-t-com Productions from Los Angeles; Sprezzatura from Washington, DC; and Studio Bib Simmons from Milwaukee.

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Get Your T-Shirts!

That's right, we have t-shirts! Now you can show off for all your friends, and let them know that it only takes you a weekend to make a film.

Four styles are available, featuring our logo and our poster contest winner.

We're also selling the Best of the 48 Hour Film Project DVDs.

Come and get 'em!

Machinima

The last city of the 2008 Tour will be a virtual one—teams of filmmakers from around the world will make 48HFP movies virtually on the weekend of November 15, as part of the Machinima 48 Hour Film Project.

What's Machinima? It's filmmaking in a virtual-reality environment in real-time. Read more about machinima or about the Machinima 48HFP.

What We're About

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 2007, some 30,000 filmmakers made films in 55 cities around the world. This year, we're even bigger, with filmmakers in over 70 cities taking the challenge to make a film in just 48 hours.

Want to learn more? See press about us, read our mission or watch some of our films.