Third Annual CCM 48-Hour Film Festival Unites UC Students to Make Movies

It’s time once more for the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s

48-Hour Film Festival

, which challenges teams of UC students to create a short film in only 48 hours.

The clock starts ticking at

7 p.m.

on

Friday, Nov. 18

, when students are split into eight teams to create their short films. The festival culminates at

7 p.m.

on

Sunday, Nov. 20

, in a free public screening of each team’s film at UC’s

MainStreet Cinema

in the

Tangeman University Center

, which is adjacent to CCM.

Any UC student is invited to participate in the third annual festival. To join, students must submit an application to CCM Acting professor and Department Chair

Richard Hess

by 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 14. All students who apply will be placed on a team.

Visit the CCM website for application instructions

.

Participants are randomly assigned to one of eight teams of about eight to ten students each. Each team is given a prop, a line of dialogue and a theme that must be present in the film, and then it’s off to the races. The resulting films will be approximately five minutes long.

While many of the participants are Electronic Media majors, all UC students are encouraged to participate. Last year, students from biomedical engineering to composition and marketing competed alongside CCM students. The festival needs more than just actors and directors; each team will ideally be outfitted with a sound engineer, a make-up artist, a film editor and a composer to write the score, as well as other personnel.

Some films and participants will win awards such as best film, best actor or actress, best editing and best cinematography. In 2015,

Sunday

won four out of the five awards;

the film is available to watch on YouTube (warning: mature language)

.

The general public is invited to the festival’s screening party at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 20. Films will be screened in UC’s MainStreet Cinema in the Tangeman University Center.

Performance Time

7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20

Location

MainStreet Cinema, Tangeman University Center

University of Cincinnati

Admission

Free, reservations are not required.

Parking and Directions

Parking is available in the CCM Garage (located at the base of Corry Boulevard off Jefferson Avenue) and additional garages throughout the UC campus. Please visit

uc.edu/parking

for information on parking rates.

For detailed maps and directions, please visit

uc.edu/visitors

. Additional parking is available off-campus at the U Square complex on Calhoun Street and other neighboring lots.

For directions to CCM Village, visit

ccm.uc.edu/about/directions

.