2010 is the 10th anniversary of the 48 Hour Film Project. The 48HFP is probably the most demanding and downright sadistic filmmaking competition ever devised. On a Friday night at 7pm, the competing teams are given a character, line of dialogue, prop and a genre. They then have until Sunday night at 7:30pm to write, shoot, edit and score a 4-7 minute short film using those criteria. Other than getting your cast, crew, locations and equipment, no creative work can be done in advance.

The competition took place in 77 cities in 16 countries in 2009 and 2010 should top 80 cities easily. We estimate that each year approximately 34,000 filmmakers are involved. This easily makes it the largest filmmaking competition of it's kind in the world!

This is where the 48x10 team comes into play. We plan to visit 10 cities and follow 10 teams as they compete in this year's run of the 48HFP. We plan on being flies on the wall as they go through the rigors of creating their 4-7 minute masterpieces. You really would be amazed at the quality of some of these films!

More than just following the teams is on our minds though. We want to talk to the people that founded the event, the people who put on the event city by city, the people and filmmaking organizations in each of the cities. We want to get inside the mind of filmmakers who put themselves through considerable emotional, physical and financial duress in order to compete in this brutal contest. Beyond the competition itself, we want to find out what motivates the indie filmmaker to make the sacrifices they do for their art form of choice.

Also, 4 people traveling together for 70+ days will develop some VERY interesting material, so there is the road trip element to the project as well. Amy, Coree, Dom and Krk are interesting characters in their own right.

Our daily schedule is very detailed. Essentially, we plan on shooting a series of hosted video pieces every single day. Some scripted, most impromptu. We will be posting almost everything we shoot online, but will be cherry picking the best content to push to our audience on FaceBook, Twitter, MySpace, iTunes, etc.

On top of all the video we will be shooting, we will be engaging our audience in every city through posting on local filmmaking forums, online groups like Yahoo and Google and via our own website at 48x10.com. The idea is to get the audience actively engaged in what it is we are doing and prompting them to contribute their own video, written and photographic content to the project.

When all is said and done, after our trip to NAB in April and 70 days on the road, we want to take all the footage and make a documentary or serialized show out of the footage.