The 48 Hour Film Showdown (Pilot)

WE LOVE THE SHOW!!!!! GREAT WORK TEAM ATLANTA AND TEAM NASHVILLE!!!! Check us out on our facebook fan page. Supremacy Films. We will continue to support you all.

Glad you liked the show. Keep voting for it!!! :-) I'll check out your fb page.

Let's hope 2010 brings The 48 Hour Film Showdown to Halogen as a SERIES!!!

At any rate, it was a cool thing to show my TV production class. We competed in the 48 hr film competition in Jax, FL, and it was incredible. Look forward to doing it again.

TEAM ATLANTA'S film was great!!!! you know theres talent when you can create a film just based on visuals and less dialogue. and the director, brandon, sooooooooooo good looking!!!

Great concept guys! Keep the episodes coming.

This came out better than I had anticipated. I think the chaos of the 48 hour film project is a great idea to put on TV. As a 3 year participant, I can't get enough! I know Buffalo wants this show on the air regularly. Anyone else?

How can you be considered as a team when the network picks it up?

Excellent idea for a reality series. Thank you for not making it a carbon copy of all the other "Reality" shows. You show the process, the creativity, and sometimes the conflict in making a film in a short time. Kudos for a smart idea.

This looks to be a good bit of programming. Am I biased for having participated in the 2009 48 hour project in Madison? Yep! I'm up for watching how other teams are making it happen. I guess it is time to go bump something from my series list on the DVD, sigh.

I didn't even know we had this channel in Dubuque, I may never leave my apt.

I am a fan of the concept to make a reality show based on the 48 hour film project. I have been involved with it for a couple of years now and its certainly a trip.

I do have a few criticisms though, and not of the film makers, but of the show in general. One of the big things which I deal with when I am making a 48 hour film is that my cast is already set in stone. I have my set of actors who have agreed to work on the project with me and I need to bear them in mind when writing my screenplay. I feel like casting should have been a concern when writing, or at the very least the audition process should have been included. While I realize the show is primarily about the creative forces behind the camera, making a film is a collaborative work with all levels of creative people. That means director, writer, editor, producer, actors, costume, properties, everyone.

It seems like you switched out the conflicts of making the film for conflicts of personality. I don't know if this was something intentional, or a result of choices in editing.

For all of my nay saying, I would most certainly watch this if it gets picked up. Its always interesting to me to see other film folks doing their thing. I just feel like some of the issues I run into (when making a film in such a short period of time, and with no budget) were passed over.

One more thing... why not let the teams actually visit the locations before the competition so that they know what they have to pick between? The more prepared the teams are, the better their final films will be.

And to the teams, kudos on both films. I am more of a comedy guy, and so I lean towards Nashville, but Atlanta certainly had some serious gravity and weight to their shots and composition.

We didn't get to audition our actors (we had to go by just a phone call and their resume which was INSANE). Luckily I'm an actor and have worked as a casting director before so I'm pretty good at looking at a persons headshot and resume and figuring out how good they will be. We also didn't get to scout our locations (thus the parking lot situation). There were a lot of factors not shown that do not occur on a normal 48 set- thus the high stress from both teams. Also, on most 48's you have an entire team where as we literally only had five people plus our composer to do everything.

This looks great! We should have been doing this all along! Let's GO! Danny Ramsey

Totally dig this as a show. Makes my desire for the next 48HFP flare up!

hey awesome! 48hr is the best part of the summer when it comes to the Minneapolis/St Paul area. I would definitely watch this and for the most part I hate reality TV. can't say it really reminded me much of how it works for us but I guess it's more dramatic for interest's sake.

Woo Hoo! This is awesome. I wanted to make a documentary about this. I should be on this. I would rock it!

This was better than I expected. I think it would work as a show. The drama of both teams trying to work together in such a stressful situation makes for good reality television.

I totally dig it...

This is an awesome show; overall it was very entertaining.
I would like to see the finished shorts without any cuts back to
the audience, so you can see the film in its entirety.

I totally agree. As the show was starting I thought to myself, "The best thing is, we will get to see the whole shorts!"
I guess audience reaction is an important part of the competition, but looking at people making the same face as me broke into the emotion ATL's film was going for.

This is an excellent show to promote up and coming film makers. There is raw talent out there. Albeit too dramatic. I've participated in the 48HF contest and if you work with people you know and people that know their roles, it flows so much smoother. Of course... that wouldn't be as interesting for the audience.

Host was a dick! And not in an interesting way either.

This is an avenue that independent filmmakers need! The host was a bit boring though

Have done 48 Hours for 6 years in Greensboro including going totally solo last year. Cool idea for a show as it's drama for sure.

Awesome! Taking short film projects to the next level. Got to love that.

A friend on my 48 Hour team sent this to me, and I thought at first "Oh, god. They're making a reality show out of a thing I love, which will ruin it." So far that's not the case and I'm actually thoroughly engaged in this episode, so good job on producing a quality show.

This is awesome! Too cool. I love the 48 hour film festival. I thought it might make a great reality show.

Looks like fun.

We had a blast at the Portland, Oregon 48 Hour Film Festival 2009 Participant
Winner: Best Director & Best Cinematography

Looks like fun.

We had a blast at the Portland, Oregon 48 Hour Film Festival 2009 Participant
Winner: Best Director & Best Cinematography

let me know when/if this gets picked up. I'll try out for the show.

Team Nashville should have WON!!! Way more story, great dialogue, and put together great!! Sure Atlanta was great...but when you shoot with a RED...everything's going to appear better, and you will miss the story, especially for a short film! Team Atlanta didnt have a great story, just dramatic camera shots! Wheres the film in that!!...not fair if you ask me. The show needs to give each team identical equipment...pre, shoot, and post!! Is this about making a film...or whos production looks more high quality/expensive? The show needs to consider that, or not allow outside equipment!

Atlanta had a great process with great chemistry and needs to be put against the best. The type of film that Nashville had did not stand a chance, guessing why you all showed it first. Good show!!! WANT TO SEE BETTER FILMS!!!!

You thought Team Atlanta had chemistry? I guess if people wanting to kill one another can be considered chemistry. Team Nashville seemed to apply the guidelines better. I think if they had both been using the same type of camera Nashville would have won. The red camera can make even a steaming pile look pretty enough to disguise what it really is...

Cindy, I bet you dont know anything about the RED camera. The Red does not create a story line, characters, and a plot. It collects light and turns it into binary numbers code to make a visual. Team Nashville did a fantastic job of dealing with there given circumstances. But it looked like a high school project. You actually felt the realness in the film from team Atlanta. And Nashville and Atlanta both used the red, Nashville def would have lost. They didnt even know how to hook up the HMI light. LOL So the excuse for team Nashville is they didnt have a RED. NOOOO They had NO SKILLS. That film could have only done good in a local 48. Not ready for TV. Lets see another episode with TEAM Atlanta and really proove there skills. No good film makers come from NASHVILLE. Isnt Atlanta suppose to be the next Hollywood??? Can a RED even be found in Nashville? Lets see how good the RED can make you look Cindy??? Might have to wait for the 5k version.

Gary, I somehow don't feel the need to respond to someone who doesn't even know "filmmakers" is one word, not two separate words. And you're correct; the RED does not "create a story line, characters, and a plot", which is too bad for Team Atlanta because they really needed those.

Really Cindy? Whats your profession? Are you into film? Sounds like you don't like Atlanta to much...

I have nothing against the city of Atlanta. I rather enjoy that particular city. What I didn't enjoy was Team Atlanta's film. Nothing to debate as it's my opinion.

Wow... "realness"? Is that even a word, Gar, buddy? 'Course, with your brilliant insights on how a good film works, you failed to notice that the ONLY thing Atlanta had going for them was the camera. What was the plot? Why did I care about any of the characters? So, we'll just take moody pieces of shit with characters in surgical masks (wtf?) randomly beating people up in a dazzling urban setting and call 'em art now? Brilliant.

Funny, I can't find a single IMDB credit for the Atlanta guys....

Wow... Seems harsh. Its just a tv show. Didnt think our movie was that bad considering we had 48 hours and a tv cameras in our butt. Both teams were great. Just because one won over the other doesnt mean anything. Art cant have universal truth... They were both good and there are millions of more films to make in our time. Lets do it.Oh yeah Im from the Atlanta team and I have credit on IMDB... Stop being sooo competitive unless your actually going to compete. GOOOOO 48 HOUR FILM SHOWDOWN!!!!

I thought it was harsh as well until I read the comment that "Gary Hill" left. It was ridiculous and insulting to every filmmaker in Nashville. Ignorance is universally annoying, so I don't blame "Woody" for their comments at all. Nashville lost by ONE VOTE people, so obviously our film wasn't too bad. lol.

Gary: "No good film makers come from NASHVILLE"...Really? So I guess Oprah Winfrey, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society), Harmony Korine (Gummo, Kids, etc.), Reese Witherspoon, Miley Cyrus, James Denton (Desperate Housewifes, Face/Off), David Keith, Dinah Shore, Matt RIddlehoover (Too A Tee, Bookends, Watch Out), Christopher Doyle (Make Out With Violence), Jeff Wedding (Gracie: Diary of a Coma Patient), Brent Stewart and James Clauer (The Dirty Ones), and Kevin Ragsdale (Producer) need to reconsider their chosen profession...These are just a few that I can think of OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD! Not to mention Nashville produced TWO of the Saved by the Bell cast members, plus COUNTLESS other performers, tv stars, writers, musicians, etc. Just saying...