Think you can make a movie in 48 hours? So far, 47 teams with 68 filmmakers from Texas, New Mexico and Mexico have registered to try to make a short film as part of the Reimagining Borders 48-Hour Film Challenge between Feb. 26 and Feb. 28. Ilana Lapid, NMSU Creative Media Institute professor who organizes the 48-hour film challenge with help from her students and Kyle Ivy, CMI student who served as public relations director for the project. (Courtesy Photo) From left: New Mexico State University CMI students Mario Valencia, Roman Sanchez III and Christian Sermeño wrote, directed, shot and edited the film Get Through This in just 48 hours. (Courtesy photo)
MANDATORY SAFETY MEETING & KICKOFF EVENT: 6PM, FEBRUARY 26, 2021
How does it work?
Kickoff will be on Zoom at 6:00pm on Friday, February 26. You will have 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a short film. Your entry must be uploaded by Sunday evening February 28th at 6:00pm.
To register, all team members must agree to the COVID-safe rules listed below, and in the online registration form.
All films successfully completed for the Reimagining Borders 48 Hour Film Challenge will screen online as part of the 2021 Las Cruces International Film Festival (LCIFF). The screening block will be screened online for 48 hours, beginning 5pm, Friday, March 5th.
The New Mexico State University Borderlands and Ethnic Studies, Chicano Programs and the Deans Fellows of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity at the College of Arts and Sciences are hosting a dialogue series titled, Imagining and Shaping Pluriversities: Land-based Indigenous Knowledges and Pedagogies of Resistance. (Clockwise from left) Pluriversity Imagination Collective members, Judith Flores Carmona, interim director of Chicano Programs, associate professor and faculty fellow in the Honors College; Manal Hamzeh, professor of gender and sexuality studies; Georgina Badoni, assistant professor of anthropology; and Dulcinea Lara, associate professor and director of Borderlands and Ethnic Studies program. (Courtesy Photo) (From left) Lisa Grayshield and Jennie Luna kicked off the series with their talk titled, Intersecting Momentum: A discussion about the History of Colonization and the Now of Healing Land and People. (Courtesy Photo)
Among many events planned in conjunction with the 2021 Las Cruces International Film Festival is an opportunity for anyone to make a movie in 48 hours between Feb. 26 and 28, then have it screened during the festival. Carlos Jimenez designed the 2021 Las Cruces International Festival logo. The sixth annual festival will be delivered virtually from March 3-7. NMSUs Southwest and Border Cultures Institute and NMSUs Creative Media Institute are partnering with the film festival to offer the Reimagining Borders 48-Hour Film Challenge with prizes ranging from $400 to $100. (Courtesy photo)
The sixth annual LCIFF, presented by New Mexico State University and Visit Las Cruces, will run from March 3-7. NMSUs Southwest and Border Cultures Institute and NMSUs Creative Media Institute are partnering with the film festival to offer the Reimagining Borders 48-Hour Film Challenge.