Launch 16th Annual BCM Summer Shorts Movie Jam: 48 Hour Filmmaker Challenge

Now in our 16th year, Berkeley Community Media proudly offers this memorable adventure whose success depends on the imagination, skills and endurance of willingness of it’s participants! The 16th Annual BCM Summer Shorts Movie Jam: 48 Hour Filmmaker Challenge. This is gonna be one HOT Film festival!

Berkeley Community Media (www.bcmtv.org) is a non-profit public access TV station and a community hub for creative media makers. In this day and age, just about everyone has an eye for making media! We invite you to round up some friends to either come with a team, or make a team on the spot by joining together with other folks.

If you are new to this kind of filmmaking sport, never fear, there are always others with just a bit more experience to bond and support your filmmaking efforts. Teams are allowed to consider all the various factors of creating a film such as what gear they will use, scouting locations, transportation, craft services and which team member will fullfill each position, but actual filming is limited to the weekend challenge and must include the 3 secret clues.

We are limiting the festival this year to 12 teams so we have enough time to screen films and have a mini interview session.

The main emphasis is that the film MUST be created only during the 48 hour period July 10-12. How do we ensure this particular detail? We wait till the Launch Party at 5pm July 10th to reveal the 3 clues: An Object, A Phrase, and A Theme. Filmmakers are then let loose into the world to write, shoot, and edit a short film of 10 minutes or less and bring it back Sunday July 12th by 6pm to be screened at 7pm Live on BCMTV and in front of a live audience.

Details:

• Friday July 10th 5pm: Arrive on the steps of Berkeley Community Media by 5pm (2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way) to receive the clues which you must include in the film. Then, at 6pm, Launch into the world to write, shoot, edit your film.
• Sunday July 12th 6pm: Submit your short film of 10 minutes or less, in person to Berkeley Community Media or, remotely [email protected]
• Sunday July 12th 7pm: Films will be screened in front of a live audience and broadcast live on www.bcmtv.org.

RSVP to Eventbrite link to have the chance to participate. Only 12 teams accepted. Team collaboration encouraged.

See you in the movies!!!

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