Making Movies for the 48 Hour Film Festival

So you fancy yourself a filmmaker, but you don't know how to get yourself known? Are you just a great big hulking load of moviemaking talent looking for the opportunity to present yourself as an alternative to the constant stream of dreck that Hollywood keeps forcing down our throats? Or hey, maybe you are one of those unfortunate types who thinks that Hollywood has finally hit its stride and you want to showcase your talent by jumping headlong into the great big pool of mediocrity that is American film today.

The Blair Witch Project pretty much changed everything for independent film. The profit that film made proved that no matter how crappy a film you actually make, as long as you can make it as cheaply as possible and turn a big profit, then you will get noticed. And DV technology has brought that ability to make a film with a ridiculously small budget into the home of every wannabe Spielberg alive today.

But just because you can make a cheap film is no guarantee that anybody but your friends and family will see it. Until now, that is. A trio of guys living in LA has made it possible for anyone reading this article in even the most remote village in Croatia to have their eight minute masterpiece potentially viewed by movers and shakers in the business.

And by the business, of course, I mean the industry.