48 Hour Film Project is Getting Bigger

The ninth running of The 48 Hour Film Project will kick it’s 2009 tour off in Las Vegas, Nevada on from April 17-19 at the NAB Show. The event, which is considered the world’s largest timed filmmaking competition, will expand in 2009 to almost 80 cities worldwide. Newly added cities on the tour this year include Beijing, China; Lisbon, Portugal; Savannah, Georgia; and Paducah, Kentucky.

This challenging project, which requires the filmmakers to finish the entire filmmaking process from concept to completion in just 48 hours. This includes writing, casting, shooting and editing and everything in between. This year’s project is estimated to challenge up to 35,000 filmmakers across the globe.

The 48 Hour Film Project began in 2001, having kicked off in Washington by filmmakers Mark Ruppert and Liz Langston. Since then, the project has had more than 130,000 participants who made almost 9,000 short films. These past films can be seen in the project’s archive.

[source: Hollywood Reporter]