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And take a look at the ‘Special Mentions’
Some very cool prizes for the 2022 challenge…
Garden Studios will give you a studio and technicians to shoot a Virtual Studio Production!
Cave Academy will train you on industry-standard Onset VFX Data acquisition
Some of the best creative tools around in the Adobe Creative Cloud
Learn about MoCap and VFX performance with Creature Bionics
Meet our jury for the 2022 challenge.
Emmy Award-winner and record-breaking five-time winner of the prestigious Eureka Prize for Science Journalism, Sonya is one of Australia’s leading factual filmmakers. A brilliant science communicator and massive scifi fan!
Elliot is one of the UK's most influential indie film promoters. He is a film producer and the founder of the Raindance Film Festival (now 30 years!!!) and the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).
Global Head of Layout for dNeg, Paul is a leader in the Visual FX industry. He has worked on films like Prometheus, Dune, and won 5 Oscars that include Blade Runner 2049 and First Man.
Christina is an expert in Virtual Production. A Board Member of SMPTE UK (Society of Motion Picture & TV Engineers), the Director of Virtual Production at Anna Valley and a CINEGIRL Ambassador.
Simon is the Festival Director of the Sydney SciFi Film Festival. He has been watching and writing about film for 30 years, and is a member of the Australian Film Critics Circle.
Andrew is an award-winning independent filmmaker and radio drama producer/director. In the last decade his film and radio dramas have won over thirty international awards. He has developed well-known sci-fi like Blake’s 7 and Dan Dare.
Back in 2019, when we could meet and party, the 48hr awards were held at Stratford Picturehouse – check out this video chat with the 2019 winners.
The past couple of years have been rubbish for most everyone and it has been a weird time for filmmakers.
There is no better thing you can do than take part in the 48hr challenge. The next one takes place on Saturday 10th September.
We can’t wait to see the results!
It will then take us a few weeks to shortlist the films and send them to our main jury. We are planning to screen ALL the films made this year and hold a big party for the winners and shortlisted films… dates to be announced.
We want to thank our sponsors for supporting this event.
The sci-fi-london 48hr film challenge was started in 2008 and has had over 1400 short films made since then. The quality of the films created is amazing and proves that you can make engaging science fiction films on a low-to-no budget. Thank you to all those who have taken part.
The 2022 Title Card must be at the start of your film!!!