Filmmakers battle sleep for success with 48 Hour Film Project

48HFP celebrates contest finalists with “Best Of” screening

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You have a weekend, 48 hours, and you can do pretty much anything: fly around the world, read a series of very large novels, or bake a series of large cheesecakes.

Or you could make a movie.

If you do the latter, you’re probably doing it as part of the 48 Hour Film Project, a decade-old contest that covers six continents, annually involves 50,000 filmmakers, and has only five requirements: entries must include an assigned character, prop, line of dialogue, and genre.

And they must be finished — written, storyboarded, shot, edited, and scored — in two days.

The good news, for those of us who are non-marathon filmmakers, is that this year’s Atlanta entries have already wrapped: they were submitted last month. All that remains is the announcing of a winner and the “Best Of” screening, which is tonight at The Foundry at Puritan Mill, from 6-11 p.m., with the films to start at 9 and all funds to support the Plaza.

The bill includes seven entries that have names like “A Head Held High” and “Long Way Across the Street.”

On the 48HFP’s website, there is a blog for filmmakers to post throughout the process. Of the ones that have, three of them mention the word sleep: “What is Sleep?” and so on.

Whatever, guys: you made a movie!