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SA48HR: Love After

Continuing in our exploration of the 2011 San Antonio 48 Hour Film Experience we present Love After, a short film about a woman in love. The film was created by the skilled Team Live Wire and directed by Mark Cantu. Team Live Wire drew “Chick Flick” as their genre and “Historic” as the location.

SA48HR 2011: Very Big Turtle

This film from the 2011 San Antonio 48 Hour Film Experience comes from team A Very Big Turtle. Directed by Pete Barnstrom, the film takes the genre “Coming of Age” and location of “the middle of nowhere” and adds the extra challenge of having a nine-year-old boy writing the story to come up with an improbable [Read it all...]

SA48HR 2011: Drought of Essentials

The San Antonio Film Commission sponsored their annual San Antonio 48 Hour Film Experience which saw more than 20 teams working to produce a shirt film over the course of a weekend. The 2011 sa48hr competition was the weekend of December 2nd and this year the theme was Drought: Life Without Water. All films needed to incorporate a [Read it all...]

SA48HR: Death SentenceSA48HR: Death Sentence

This short film was turned in by Team CineVeliz for the recent San Antonio 48 Hour Film Experience. Directed and written by Pablo Veliz and stars Alfredo Lomeli, Death Sentence explores how the application of capital punishment may change in the future.

You can see more about the films of CineVeliz, including Cardboard Dreams [Read it all...]

SA48HR: And The Winner Is...SA48HR: And The Winner Is…

The San Antonio 48 Hour Film Experience put on by the San Antonio Film Commission is history, but there are still a couple of pieces of business remaining. First, the awards, which were handed out last night at the Film Commission’s annual holiday party.

First place and the Audience Award went to Team Uncle Dynamite [Read it all...]

SA48HR: EndgameSA48HR: Endgame

Team Live Wire led by Mark Cantu turned in the action-packed short film Endgame as their contribution to the SA48HR Film Experience. The film follows a rental car manager as he hustles to get a package back for a spy while his sister is held hostage. Some very slick work for one hectic weekend. Bonus [Read it all...]

SA48HR: La Vida De NocheSA48HR: La Vida De Noche

Here is the first short from last weekend’s SA48HR Film Experience. Team Uncle Dynamite, led by Mistah Pete Barnstrom and Wes Barlow, drew the genre telenovela and the character Peril who is trying to quit smoking and produced this lovely bit of inanity, La Vida de Noche.

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SA48HR 2010: It's A Wrap!SA48HR 2010: It’s A Wrap!

Teams of filmmakers across San Antonio worked furiously over the weekend making short films in a short amount of time as part of the San Antonio 48 Hour Film Experience. While the national competition was in August, this local version is sponsored by the San Antonio Film Commission. The screening for the films is 7:00 [Read it all...]

SA48HR: Dream JobSA48HR: Dream Job

Dream Job was a 2007 San Antonio 48 Hour Film Project entry from Team Thong Snappaz and director Rick Lopez. It won the award for best graphics.

We have all had one of those jobs that you can only escape through a little daydreaming. Dream Job presents a nice little fantasia vignette of that daydream. [Read it all...]

SA48HR: Saint Passions Landing

This short film was the winner of the December San Antonio 48 Hour Film Experience. Team Live Wire drew the soap opera genre and then presented the delightful Saint Passions Landing. While writing their new soap opera, the writers get sidetracked in their imaginations.

Saint Passions Landing was written and directed by Mark Cantu. The [Read it all...]