Cavegirl Productions - Film
| Film Info: FICKLE FORTUNE | FOURGE | The Old World | HATCH | FELT | APERTURE |
The 48 Hour Film Project, now an international contest, was started in 2001 in Washington, DC by Mark Ruppert and Liz Langston. Filmmakers are given two days to write, shoot, soundtrack, and edit a four to seven minute film. At 7pm Friday evening, filmmakers attend a kickoff meeting where they pull their team's required genre out of a hat. Every city is also assigned a character, prop, and line of dialogue that must appear in each team's film. The films must be turned in by 7:30pm on Sunday evening to be eligible for awards.
The founders started the 48HFPs sister contest, the National Film Challenge in 2003. The NFC rules are almost exactly the same, but you are given an extra day and allowed to mail in your completed film, instead of running or breaking all known traffic laws delivering your finished movie to a central drop-off location in your city, as with 48HFP. Also, you are emailed a random genre on Friday evening, and the same required elements are assigned to all teams in a US timezone.
I was in my first 48HFP film, Ziptides, in 2002 with The McGuffin Project, who unfortunately drew the awful (and now thankfully retired) Soap Opera genre. In 2003, I was in the Fantasy genre film After Adam for the Unusual Suspects team. My apparent control-freak tendencies drove me to form my own film team for the following year's contest. I've worn a bunch of hats since: Director, Producer, Writer, and Actor. But I couldn't possibly do it all alone. Thankfully, I am lucky enough to know several ridiculously talented and patient people that have continued to brave sleep-deprivation, odd locations, long hours, elaborate costumes, and a seriously bitchy director to create some great short films and ultimately have a good time making them. We've made six films so far:
May 2008 FICKLE FORTUNE (6:20) a short film made as part of the DC 48 Hour Film Project 2008 made in conjunction with Catalyst Films { Official site - ASK-Design.net } FICKLE FORTUNE has screened at: AFI Silver Theatre, MD - 5/8/08 Genre: Fable Character: Lori or Larry Gardner, Designer Prop: A sauce Line of Dialogue: "I'll be glad when he's gone." |
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May 2007 { Official site - FOURGE.org } |
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May 2006 The Old World (7:26) a short film made as part of the DC 48 Hour Film Project 2006 made in conjunction with Catalyst Films { Official site - TheOldWorld.TV } < The Old World on IMDB.com > The Old World has screened at: AFI Silver Theatre, MD - 5/12/06 Genre: Historical Fiction/Period Piece Character: Tim/Tina Tate, Gay Glass Sculptor Extraordinaire Prop: Fire extinguisher Line of Dialogue: "This is absolutely the last time." |
May 2005 HATCH (7:38) a short film made as part of the DC 48 Hour Film Project 2005 made in conjunction with Defektiv Films { Official site - ProjectHATCH.com } < HATCH on IMDB.com > WINNER, Best Locations - DC 48HFP 2005 TOP 15 FILM - DC 48HFP 2005 HATCH has screened at: Annapolis Film Festival 2005, MD -11/12/05, 2005 Warehouse Theatre, DC - 6/10/05 AFI Silver Theatre, MD - 5/5/05 Genre: Horror Character: R. Moellering, Hypochondriac Prop: Bottle of wine Line of Dialogue: "It was like that when I got here." |
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October 2004 FELT: Tearing the Fabric of America (7:38) a short film made as part of the National Film Challenge 2004 made in conjunction with Defektiv Films { Official site - GodHatesRags.com } < FELT on IMDB.com > WINNER, Best Mockumentary - NFC 2004 TOP TEN FILM - NFC 2004 FELT has screened at: DC Shorts 2005, DC - 9/18/05 AMC Indie Showcase, VA - 10/13/04 Atlanta NFC Showcase, GA - 11/15/04 Warehouse Theatre, DC - 11/9/04 Art-O-Matic 2004, DC - 11/04 Genre: Mockumentary Character: J. Upton, Dog Walker Prop: Map Line of Dialogue: "You caught me at a bad time." |
| May 2004 A P E R T U R E (8:07) a short film made as part of the DC 48 Hour Film Project 2004 made in conjunction with Defektiv Films { Official site - APERTURE } APERTURE has screened at: AFI Silver Theatre, MD - 5/12/04 Genre: Sci-Fi Character: S. Baxter, Professional Photographer Prop: Rubber Duck Line of Dialogue: "You know I love the '____'" |
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Last year, in the summer after we made The
Old World, I was approached to be interviewed by a reporter
from Voice of America,
Brent Hurd, about a piece he was doing on the 48
Hour Film Project. He also asked for a copy of TOW to incorporate in
it. Well, he's finally edited and released the piece on VOA, and TOW
and I get a good chunk of air time.
"The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia
international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the
Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours of news,
information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated
worldwide audience of more than 115 million people."
Watch the video of 48 Hours or Bust - Filmmakers Vie in
Extreme Contest below, or read
the transcribed version here.