The 48 Hour Film Festival Deadline is Approaching Fast: Get Your Movie in by August 31

Time is running out to submit your entry this year to the 48 Hour Film Festival. Submissions are due by August 31, 2007. This year will be the tenth 48 Hour Film Festival, a showcase for making a short movie over the time that most people waste watching football games, mowing the lawn and having catch-up sex. For a complete history of the 48 Hour Film Festival read this previous article.

Here is the exciting news update. The recent Fox reality show On The Lot actually featured on-screen some of the people involved in the 48 Hour Film Festival in outtake segments. In addition, when the producers of On The Lot embarked upon their search for potential contestants, one of the first places they looked toward was the 48 Hour Film Festival. The reason for this is that, as anyone who has taken a look at the films submitted in the past can see, the quality of moviemaking that can be done within the limited scope required for entry can be quite impressive. In fact, most of the films featured on the 48 Hour Film Festival site are far, far better than that winning Coke commercial currently being foisted upon movie audiences in theaters across the country. (You know the one I'm talking about, where the guy moves throughout his day in stop motion animation only to arrive in an office setting with no payoff; this won an award??).

Time is running out. Once you remove the 48 hours required to make your movie, you've only got a week left to get it in.