The 48 Hour Film Project is an international filmmaking competition that got its start right here in DC in 2001. Now in its 8th year, the Project will visit 70 cities around the world with 2,500 film teams taking part.

At this year's Art-O-Matic, we present the Best of the 48 Hour Films from 2007--including our international champion from Tel Aviv--TimeCatcher.

Outreach Productions is currently premiering the Christian oriented movie, "Be Ready." “Be Ready” is a story of a day in the lives of people who discover how important it is to “be ready” for Christ. Though this day would start out as fairly routine, it would end in a most dramatic fashion. “Be Ready” is a thought provoking film that will force viewers to examine their lives. In the film, childhood friends discover the real meaning of friendship; a marriage is pushed to the edge of destruction; a father and son deal with the issues of love and forgiveness; and a prostitute tries to find the true meaning and worth of her life.

The film points out how our destinies are determined by the lifestyles we lead as well as the decisions we make. Relationships are challenged when the issue of serving Christ and living holy becomes the focal point of discussion. “Be Ready” is family oriented and is geared towards adolescents as well as mature adults. It will spark family discussions and will touch even those who don’t usually want to hear the lessons being taught. This is a film that families will watch over and over again.

A five minute video documentary. Originally created in PAL transferred
to NTSC. Sponsored by the University of New South Wales, College of Fine
Arts, Student Association, Sydney, Australia and Kodak, Australia.

After a harrowing divorce/custody case, my daughter and i
take a roadtrip to Outback Australia.

Artist Bio--Bachelor Fine Arts (Photography) Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Master of Art (Time Based Art) UNSW, COFA, Sydney, Australia
MFA (current student) UNSW. COFA, Sydney, Australia

DC Premiere! The 1922 silent Swedish cult classic, 'Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages,' (featuring grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns and a satanic Sabbath) with a live, improvised score of monstrous medieval music on the electric viola da gamba by Tina Chancey of HESPERUS.

See 8 films from the BEST OF DC SHORTS 2007! These films show the amazing creative talent of filmmakers from around the globe -- and as close as around the corner!

FREE Screenings!

Films:

- The Job
- Trigger Effect (DC)
- 2 in the AM PM
- The Wine Bar
- The Barrows
- Angst Barbie (DC)
- Feeding
- Pubic Art, Private Parts (DC)

These films are not appropriate for children under the age of 16. Some contain adult language. There is no nudity.

:: 5 short films ::
made for the 48 Hour Film Project
and the National Film Challenge

Kyle
-- unrequited love of another sort

KL-52 Action News
-- 2 guys, a television studio, another planet

Match
-- a man and a liver... BFF...

Untitled #Love
-- road trippy

Like Me
-- the cutest story ever told

strange, sweet, silly, sexy, sad
[ sometimes simultaneously ]

Allan visits the Philadelphia Asylum to meet its famed director, Dr. Gross, and to discuss Gross’ controversial treatment, the “Soothing System.” Allan is shocked when Dr. Gross states that the Soothing System is no longer in use.
As the two men walk Dr. Gross explains his theories of treating the mad mind, disciplining the body, and harnessing the dangerous “irresistible compulsion” that fosters madness. Gross invites Allan to dinner to meet his staff and to introduce Allan to the latest treatment known as the “System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether.”
Loosely based on a Poe tale, filmed in daylight, and edited for a new cinematic generation, this film exposes and overexposes Edgar Allan Poe, Philadelphia, and the strange characters that inhabit this mad world.

Suso Mo (a documentary) explores body image and identity through interviews of Filipina-American women who openly discuss their personal and perceived social perspectives about their breasts.

When Simon Lancaster can't get a date with his dream girl Vanessa, his father puts out a hit on her faux-boyfriend Travis, but when all else fails, they call upon the Contigency 4, a group of less than great hitmen and what follows is a series of midadventures of misconception, cats and mormons.

Shot in 2006 on location in Maryland and New York.

On the eve of a possible promotion at Quality Copy Shop, will Rahsaan (Corin B. Self) let his outrageous co-workers (Keith Dickerson, Dionna Rene', Joseph D. Durbin) destroy his chances? Find out in filmmaker Mikal K. Odom's comedy, "2nd Shift" - playing this month as part of the the Shelby Wallace Film Showcase.

Selection of short films from France.
Most work consists of docs and shorts relating to the European queer experience or sex workers.

Opening Night: A Roadkill Opera

Highlights of the 2007 Rosebud Film and Video Festival

I experienced the early years of the AIDS crisis in DC and attending marches, seeing the quilt many times, feeling the anger caused by slow reaction to this epidemic and losing loved ones to AIDS, left a scar. Today the fight against this disease continues around the world. I created this Short 7 min video about AIDS in 2008. It not a documentary or educational, it is more a lament for those lost, and a prayer for better care and more prevention as we move forward.