Back with 48 Hour Film Festival Success!

Sorry guys! Producing my college thesis film, "Watch the Rhine," a World War II period piece actually led me to making another one as well as a full-time job with a documentary filmmaker here in Arkansas so I have been very busy.

It is my pleasure to have returned and announce that I'll be back indefinitely. So

.Now that I've gotten that out of the way...Filmmaking in Central Arkansas is awesome! It seems like there's always something going on in this rapidly growing film scene. While there are other projects worth touching on I can't talk about any of them without first talking about the 48 Hour Film Project.

I recently participated in this incredible film festival in Little Rock, Arkansas. If you're not familiar the 48 hour film project it is a film festival in which local filmmakers compete against one another in the challenge of completing a film from concept to finished project in only 48 hours. At the opening of the festival the teams come together and are informed of their subject matter. Every team shares a the name of a protagonist, his or her profession, a prop and a line that they are required to use or otherwise face disqualification. On top of that, each team is then individually assigned a genre with which they have to use the same elements.

This year was my first year to participate in the 48 Hour Film Project. I worked with the team "Just a Bunch of Losers Making Movies" as the director of the 48 hour film "Open Bar, Closed Casket." As you may be able to tell from the title our genre was a dark comedy. The film covers the extremely comical subjects of death, loss and of course, binge alcoholism. The film itself is a great thing to have walked away from the festival with but if there's one thing about this festival I can say for sure is that it is a great learning experience for anyone trying to find their place in the world of filmmaking.