WHAT IS THE 72-HOUR FILMMAKING CONTEST?

The 72-Hour Filmmaking Challenge is a subsection of FOKUS Film Festival where participants have 72 hours to write, shoot, and edit a film. Additionally, participants will be given a list of prompts (theme, prop, and quote) they must use in their film.

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Participants can enter as a complete team or alone (to be paired).

Films will not be judged on the quality of the equipment used, but on their creativity with the given restrictions.

Films from the 72-Hour Filmmaking Contest will be evaluated by the Fokus Film Festival Coordinators for a chance to be viewed during the festival and judged by our panelists.

72-Hour Filmmaking Contest 2022 PromptS

For an example of what’s to be provided.

Theme: Betrayal

Quote: “Roll over me”

Prop: Soup