48 Hour Film Project!

Last weekend Justin was casted for a lead role in Tu Tengo for the 48 Hour Film Project. He plays an evil magician who kills his wife! This movie will debut on May 21st at the Megaplex Theaters in Jordan Commons, UT. Check back to see the full feature film! 

What is the 48 Hour Film Project?

The 48 Hour Film Project is a contest in which teams of filmmakers are assigned a genre, a character, a prop, and a line of dialogue, and have 48 hours to create a short film containing those elements. Shortly after the 48 hours of film making, the films from each city are then screened at a theater in that city. The Project was inspired by The 24 Hour Plays. It has existed since 2001.

Although filmmakers will have to come up with their own, original ideas, project organizers have thrown a couple of monkey wrenches, in the form of assigned genres and required elements, into the works for good measure. 15 minutes before the project officially begins—6:45pm on Friday evening—teams will draw their genre literally from a hat. There are 14 genres, including, among others, superhero, detective/cop, road movie, holiday film, buddy film and horror. Additionally, organizers will draw three required elements—a character, a prop and a line of dialogue—from a hat. Past examples include Ignazio del Fuego, Cab Driver; snow globe and “When you say it like that, it’s almost poetry.”  The shorts must be between four and seven minutes long, which means they’ll have to pack a lot of punch to captivate an audience.