Best of the 48 Hour Film Festival

Best of the 48 Hour Film Festival

Columbia Film Festival is excited to partner with the longtime and incredibly popular 48 Hour Film Festival to present the very best selection of the 48 Hour Domestic and International Winning films, plus a special screening of the best of the local Washington DC and Baltimore, MD 2019 winners.  Buy a Columbia Film Festival PLATINUM All Film Pass ($55) for the entire three (3) days, June 27-29, 2019. A SATURDAY ALL ACCESS DAY PASS is available for $35, unlimited films and events on Saturday, June 29th.

About the 48 Hour Film Project

The competition began in Washington, D.C., in 2001, created by Mark Ruppert. By 2009, nearly 40,000 filmmakers made around 3,000 films in 76 cities across the globe. After the 48 hours of filmmaking are complete, each city screens all the competing films, and a jury subsequently vote on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best films. Most cities also give out awards to their films in several categories, including directing, writing, and acting; an Audience Choice award is sometimes voted on as well, by the audience of the screenings in each city.