What was the Video Race?
The 24-Hour Video Race began at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas/Mockingbird Station (not at the Magnolia Lounge in Fairpark) at 11:59PM on Friday, May 22nd with a theme, prop, location and line of dialogue assignment for the film and concludes 24 hours later with a race to the finish line, back at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas. All of the films that make it by the 12-midnight deadline will be screened and compete for awards and bragging rights. The winning videos will be screened at the 22nd VideoFest in November and also on Frame of Mind, a television program on KERA Ch. 13.
Who Raced?
Anyone with a camera and willingness to go a mile-a-minute for 24-hours! Anyone from elementary-school kids to professional filmmakers compete in this event. Student teams compete against other student teams, but adult teams are categorized by team size rather than skill level, since most teams have a mix of professionals, novices, and everything in-between. Accountant by day, aspiring filmmaker by night? Highly paid professional in the film industry, bored with having to repress your creativity on client jobs? Want to try out a new technique and see how it plays for an audience? Always wanted to make a film but never had the time or budget? This is the competition for you! Requires only 24 hours, creativity, motivation, easy-to-come-by equipment, and a small fee that enables the Video Association of Dallas, a non-profit organization, to make this event happen.
Ready. Set. Shoot.
The 24 Hour Video Race is a fun filmmaking competition in which teams of videomakers have 24 hours to write, shoot, edit and score an original short film.
Check out pictures from the 2009 Race on Flickr.
This Years Winners were:
Pixelvision:
1st place: Landdolphins
2nd place: Digital Death
3rd place: Team Swine
Futurevision:
1st place: Shoot or Die
2nd place: Silencer Films
3rd place: View Finder Productions
Auteur:
1st place: Elephant & Castle Productions
2nd place: Blocknaw Productions
3rd place: Original Dub Master
Guerilla:
1st place: Monochromatic Productions
2nd place: Curtis Needs a Ride
3rd place: GuD Films
Hollywood:
1st place: Whispering Eye (tie)
1st place: Brownian Motion (tie)
2nd place: Palatia Motion Picture Group
3rd place: The Depth of Fielders
The secret elements, as revealed in this video, were:
Theme: Misunderstanding
Prop: An edible fruit or vegetable
Location: A street or traffic sign
Line of Dialogue: "...the one on the left."
Go to the "Teams" page to check out this year's videos!
The 2009 24 Hour Video Race Dallas has finished. 89 teams started the Race. 65 teams finished on time. 10 teams' videos showed up late and were screened out of competition. The rest of the teams went missing in action.
Interested in ordering the complete Video Race on DVD or Blu-Ray?
| Order the 2009 DVD | $20 | |
| Order the 2009 Blu-Ray | $30 |