DUBOIS – Once again students of the DuBois Business College’s John Russo Movie Making Program will participate in the 48-Hour Film Project in Pittsburgh.
Students will join local Pittsburgh filmmakers to create the team for DuBois Business College. The team will be supervised and led by Ephraim Stockwell, the primary instructor for the College’s John Russo Movie Making Program.
Team DBC will gather with other teams at ArtDimensions in Pittsburgh on Aug. 7, where they will be given the requirements for their film. Everyone will be given the same, albeit specific elements–character, prop and line of dialogue–that are mandatory to be included in a three- to seven-minute film. Each team will then be required to randomly select a movie genre. At 7 p.m. each group will leave to begin the process and will be issued the deadline of 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 9, a mere 48 hours later.
The students will then head back to DuBois Business College to write, cast, costume, direct, produce, shoot, score, edit and deliver a complete film. After the film is dropped off on August 9, the team will attend the premiere screening on Aug. 12 and 13 at Kelly Strayhorn Theatre in Pittsburgh. The Wrap Party will be on Aug. 21 at AVA also in Pittsburgh. The Best of Pittsburgh 48-Hour Film Project award winners will be announced that evening at Kelly Strayhorn Theatre.
In 2008, the DuBois Business College team’s film ‘R.P.A.’ was nominated for ‘Best Film of Pittsburgh 2008’ and competed against other films at the Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall, in Carnegie. Audiences and other teams voted and winners were announced at a ‘best-of’ screening and ceremony at the same venue. “R.P.A.” took the Best Costume Award. The DBC team was awarded a statuette and a certificate.
This is the third year that Pittsburgh will host in the 48 Hour Film Project, a national contest, and the second year that DuBois Business College will compete. The contest has gained popularity in the Western Pennsylvania Film community where other colleges, film makers and even stage directors, and playwrights compete.