What is the Two Day Film Challenge?

Essentially, it's a long, sleepless weekend of filmmaking. You and a team of your friends and colleagues will produce a movie, from concept to completion - writing, shooting and post - all in just 48 hours.

You're assigned a genre, a character, a prop, a location and a line of dialogue on Friday night. From there, you have two days to complete the film, including all of the required elements.

The following week, all of the projects will be publicly screened and judged, and the winners showered with praise, prizes and glory.

Who's running the show?

Professor Steve White returns for his sixth contest as Master of Ceremonies, as well as the tyrannical enforcer and interpreter of the rules. Checks and balances be damned!

Joining him this year is fellow professor, Ron DeMarse, who will serve as Webmaster and Lackey. Not necessarily in that order.

In addition, our distinguished panel of judges will include local and regional industry professionals.

Where did this come from?

Back in 2004, a group of Western Kentucky University students and alumni entered Nashville's version of the international 48 Hour Film Project. In the years that followed, those students joined forces with the WKU School of Journalism & Broadcasting to create our own 48-hour event. Since then, dozens of teams - including several hundred filmmakers - have created movies as part of the contest.

The purpose of the Two Day Film Challenge is to promote and encourage the talented, aspiring filmmakers in our region. With the unusual constraints of a 48-hour timetable, our producers are forced to get out there and make movies - rather than simply thinking and talking about them.