48-Hour Video Race 2024
Friday, September 20, 6 pm
Video Race: Friday, September 13, 5pm – Sunday, September 15, 5pm
Screening: Friday, September 20, 6pm
PLEASE EMAIL JCHRZANOWSKI@ACADEMYARTMUSEUM.ORG TO PARTICIPATE
Filmmakers of all ages (either as a team or solo) will have the chance to create a one-to-seven-minute video that will be screened at the Academy Art Museum on Friday, September 20. Films must incorporate a word and theme that will be provided to competitors via email on Friday, September 13 at 5 pm. Budding and experienced filmmakers will have just 48 hours to shoot, edit, and submit a video by the deadline of Sunday, September 15 at 5 pm.
A panel of judges will choose the Best in Show for two categories—Student/Family (at least 50% of the filmmaking team are under 18) and Adult—in addition to a People’s Choice Award selected on the evening of the film screening.
Theme: Freedom
Prop: Money
Your film should be between 1- to 7-minutes long and include a title screen with the name of your film. At the end of your film, please include this line: “This film was made for the 48-Hour Video Race.”
Once you have completed your video between September 13-15, click on the link below to upload. Please do not upload a video before these dates or you will be disqualified.
How to submit your film
Go to www.filmfreeway.com
Click “Sign up” in the upper right corner
Enter your first and last name, password, and click “I want to submit my work”
You’ll be led through 5 sections: Project Information, Submitter Information, Credits, Specifications, Screenings. For our purposes, you only need to enter the title of your film in the Project Information section. The other boxes in these sections can remain empty.
Click “Save Project”
A pop-up box will appear that says “Congratulations, your project has been created”
Click “Add Project File”
Upload your film by clicking “Choose File” in the blue box
Click on “Browse Film Festivals”
In the search bar, type “Academy Art Museum 48-Hour Video Race”
Click “Submit Now” in the Academy Art Museum 48-Hour Video Race box
Click “Complete Order” (there is no charge to enter)
Please make sure your video is downloadable. We will need to download them for the screening on September 20.
In partnership with the Ocean City Film Festival and the Chesapeake Film Festival.
Francisco Salazar, organizer of the 48-Hour Video Race, is a filmmaker who divides his time between New York where he grew up and Colombia. Francisco holds an M.S. from the New School. His first feature “Nowhere” (2020) went to over 20 Film Festivals and was nominated for two Colombian Academy Awards. It also won Best First Film, Best in Show, and Best Feature at several festivals. The film was acquired by TLA Releasing and Optimale. In 2019 he was selected for the first annual Latinx List from The Black List and in 2020 he joined FilmShop. Francisco has served as Jury at the Festival de los Derechos Humanos in Colombia and is also the co-founder of the online magazine OperaWire, which is read by millions monthly.
Judges
Natalie Jasmine Harris is a Black queer filmmaker originally from Maryland passionate about telling coming-of-age stories. Her short film, GRACE, premiered at The 2024 Sundance Film Festival, and her 2022 NYU thesis film, PURE, received The Director’s Guild of America Student Film Award and was acquired to stream on HBOMax. Natalie has participated in artist programs with Film at Lincoln Center, GLAAD, SFFILM, Outfest, Sundance Institute, and more. Her work has been featured in publications including Teen Vogue, Baltimore Sun, and Huffington Post.
B.L. Strang-Moya is the founder and creative director of the Ocean City Film Festival. He graduated from Towson University in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Media and Film. In addition to festival running, B.L. is a filmmaker that has exhibited throughout the region.
Cid Collins Walker is currently the Executive Director of the Chesapeake Film Festival in its 17th year, providing the organization with artistic vision, direction and leadership. Collins Walker released her first feature-length film Arc of Light: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 2012, as part of the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C. Her film went on to air on the PBS network throughout the nation and further to Singapore in 2021. She received a fellowship with the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974.