48 Hour Film Competition

Welcome to the 2011 Ivy Film Festival's 48 Hour Film Competition!

This competition challenges teams of undergraduate filmmakers to an exciting, invigorating, and tireless weekend of writing, shooting, and editing a film. The competition begins Friday, November 11th at 8:00pm and ends Sunday, November 13th at 8:00pm.

Our goal is to promote filmmaking, creativity, and teamwork skills in a fun and exciting way, and to challenge student filmmakers to take action and produce a final product in a time-constrained environment.

Here's how it works: Register your team (up to 10 undergraduate students from any school) by emailing iffprogramming@gmail.com before the 11th with your group name, leader, members, and school. At exactly 8:00pm on November 11th, prompts will go out via email, and filmmakers will be asked to include a specific line of dialogue, prop, character, action, and setting. All material must be original (no stock footage filmed outside the 48 hours allowed!) and submitted online (a link to youtube will be fine).

The Prizes are:
$150 for 1st place
$50 for 2nd place

Any questions can be directed to iffprogramming@gmail.com.

We look forward to watching your films!

Sincerely,
Jacob Gindi and Joanna Jacobs
Programming Coordinators
The Ivy Film Festival

To be eligible to participate in the 48-Hour Film Competition, the filmmaker or team must adhere to the following rules:

1. The Film submitted to the Contest shall be created in whole within the 48-hour time slot allotted. Works that are submitted after the deadline shall not be considered in the judging or audience voting. All creative processes must be done within this time period, including scripting, shooting, costuming, set design, editing, rehearsing, sound design, etc. before 8pm EST, Friday November the 11th, 2011; the only work that is allowed to have taken place is the organization of cast/crew, and securing equipment and shooting locations.

2. All footage used in the film must be created within the 48-hour time slot. No stock footage or previously shot footage allowed. Animation is allowed, as long as it was created within the 48-hour time slot.

3. All music used in the soundtrack of the film, must be original music created and recorded within the 48-hour time slot. Pre-recorded music is allowed as long as you have the rights to this music. Sound effects must be created and recorded during the allotted 48-hours unless you own the rights to pre-recorded sound effects.

4. The film must be at least 5 minutes and no more than 7 minutes in length (excluding the credits, which may be an additional 30 seconds).

5. Teams must have no more than 10 members.

6. THE DIRECTOR MUST CURRENTLY BE ATTENDING AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY. The submission must be emailed from the director's school e-mail address. The competition is limited to undergraduates.

7. Film submissions must include at least one prompt from each prompt category provided and should be appropriate material.

8. The competition will begin on the 11th at 8:00pm, when prompts will be sent to all teams. Everything must be submitted digitally online by 8:00pm on Sunday, November 13th at 8:00pm.