48-Hour Filmmaking Challenge Now Open

The Red Sea Film Festival has announced the opening of applications for the “48 Hours to Make a Film” challenge, which is aimed at young talents of Saudi citizens and residents who want to enter the world of directing. The challenge will run until June 30, 2024. Organized in partnership with the French Cultural Center, the French Consulate in Jeddah and the Red Sea International Film Festival, the challenge aims to enhance the curiosity, creativity and innovation of young people and develop their directing skills. Participants can race against time in their imagination to create exciting short films, and the door to the competition will be open to teams of creative talents between 18 and 25 years old, with a maximum of five participants per team, provided that the team is led by a male or female writer or director (Saudi national).

The selected teams will participate in a series of short film making workshops and intensive courses over two days in July before launching a 48-hour challenge to create a short film.

The challenge is based on filmmaking on a specific theme, requiring the work to contain specific elements or scenes, which are revealed at the beginning of the challenge, after which the participating teams will race against time to create and shoot a short film of three to six minutes.

The challenge will screen the films in September 2024, select and crown two winning teams, whose leaders will also receive a ticket to an artistic residency to master the art of directing at La Femme school in France in 2025.

The Red Sea Film Festival invites those who wish to apply and participate in the “Make a Film in 48 Hours” challenge to visit the link:Click here).