48 Hour Film Project - DC

Back in 2003, the thing that brought Dobler's Pen together in the first place was the Washington DC 48 Hour Film Project. This first weekend of May, in which they hold the contest in Washington...it's our anniversary, our 4th Anniversary. We are now in our fifth year of film making, with 8 films under our belts. Five of them have been 48 Hour Film Project films.

For the first time in our existence, we are skipping the DC 48 Hour Film Project. Last year, we made a group decision, that we were better suited to focus our resources and energies on our own original projects, instead of killing ourselves to craft something within the frame-work of the required elements of the contest.

Several of our Dobler's folks are working with teams who are involved in the project this weekend, however, as an entity Dobler's will be skipping it.

It's crazy to think that we're in our 5th year of film making. Our group has changed a lot. People have come, people have left...but we're still here, still doing the thing that we love...telling stories. Through our 4 years, we've had many disagreements and arguments...but we're still here.

So we're not going to be in this 48 HFP. But we are moving forward with our own stuff. Right now, we're in pre-production for a series of spoof pieces that will end up being released via the web. (I won't tell you what we're spoofing...but it's something that everyone is familiar with, and the scripts...by Chris Mueller...are VERY funny.) I the meantime, we're putting ideas together for our next film project, which we'll decide upon sometime in mid-summer...and start pre-production on that.

So things are quiet here now...but that doesn't mean we don't have something on the horizon.

Best of luck to everyone in the DC 48 Hour Film Project this weekend. We'll be thinking of you at 2:00am this morning, while you're still trying to write your script and figure out your shooting schedule...well, actually, we'll all be asleep. Break a leg...especially to the team headed by Al Faison, who has been involved in many of Dobler's Pen's projects.