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| September 1, 2003 |
| Another "48 Hours of Madness" at AIU |
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SAN DIEGO—High school and college students are forming teams again to compete in another BestFest “48 Hours of
Madness” where they are given 48 hours to take the same five-page script and produce a 5-minute film (in mini-DV format).
At 4pm Friday, Sept. 12, 2003, student teams will assemble at Alliant International University's Zabel Hall to receive
their script and instructions, launching them on a 48-hour adventure to create their version of the same script. At 4pm
Sunday, Sept. 14, 2003, the same students will gather at the UltraStar Theater in Poway to view their entries on the big
screen and have dinner together.
A maximum of 50 teams will be allowed in BestFest's “48 Hours of Madness,” with a maximum
of two teams per school and five members per team. The cost to enter a team is $50 and includes dinner for team members,
admission to the theater and submission into BestFest 2004.
In Spring 2003, 38 teams (over 200 students) participated in the first 48 Hours of Madness. Their entries represented
almost every genre of filmmaking with ten of the films making it into BestFest 2003 and winning awards for both the team
members and their schools. “Vampire musical, the Amish, and terrorism were just some of the more notable
themes which took a first-date story of dual deception, cloaked in voyeurism, to new levels of entertainment,” stated Michael
Steven Gregory, Filmmaker in Residence at Alliant International University of the first event. “The script for this 48 Hours of Madness will again
challenge students to find their own voice in telling the same story uniquely apart from all others striving
to tell the same story.”
2004 BestFest San Diego Student Film Festival is slated for Saturday and Sunday, April 24 & 25, 2004. Entry deadline is
Monday, March 1, 2004 at 5pm at the San Diego Film Commission office in the following categories: Comedy, Drama,
Experimental, Non-Fiction, PSA (themed), Music Video (high school only) and Screenwriting. Entry forms can be found on the
BestFest website after September 15, 2003.
ABOUT BESTFEST—BestFest San Diego Student Film Festival (run by the Visual Arts Foundation, a 19-year-old non-profit
corporation) has grown to become the nation's largest student film festival with 598 students submitting entries in 2003.
Sponsors for BestFest 2004 already include UltraStar Cinemas, Councilmember Donna Frye's office, Alliant International
University, Random Cove, the San Diego Film Commission, Masar-Johnston Design and the Cinema Society of San Diego.
For more information, contact Dave Larson via the link below, or phone (858) 449-7085.
>> Contact Dave Larson, President, Visual Arts Foundation
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