Atlanta 48 Hour Film Festival 2012

 We're back at it again!

Photos by Mariangela Jordan

The Atlanta 48 Hour Film Project

Exhausted Atlanta Teams Submit Films

Filmmaking teams from throughout the Atlanta area successfully completed a weekend of filmmaking. Films were due on Sunday, June 17 and the last few minutes before the deadline saw filmmakers, operating on little sleep and lots of adrenaline, rushing to get their films in on time.

All of the films that were submitted on Sunday night will screen on the dates below. Come see what Atlanta area filmmakers can do!

What We're About

Who We Are

The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours.
On Friday night, you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete. Then it will show at a local theater, usually in the next week.
In 2011, nearly 60,000 filmmakers made 4,000 films in 96 cities on 6 continents. This year, we're even bigger, with filmmakers around the world taking the challenge to make a film in just 48 hours.

Our Mission

The 48 Hour Film Project's mission is to advance filmmaking and promote filmmakers. Through its festival/competition, the Project encourages filmmakers and would-be filmmakers to get out there and make movies. The tight deadline of 48 hours puts the focus squarely on the filmmakers—emphasizing creativity and teamwork skills. While the time limit places an unusual restriction on the filmmakers, it is also liberating by putting an emphasis on "doing" instead of "talking."

Float -a short urban fantasy by gloATL as interpreted by Carton Mackey

float -a short urban fantasy
by gloATL
(photo and short film by Carlton Mackey)

Highlighting “inter-human” relationships between natural systems and everyday urban life, float is a a new site work in the form of a whimsical, communal foot gathering doused with the 1956 child’s film “The Red Balloon”.
FLOAT is an Art on the Beltline commission.

Exclusive Behind the Scenes Look - NOH8 Campaign Open Shoot in Atlanta

With over 600 people photographed, THANK YOU for making the NOH8 Campaign Open Shoot in Atlanta one of the biggest open shoots in the history of the campaign. The Open Shoot in Atlanta Georgia was held on the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Weekend at the W Atlanta - Midtown Hotel. It was sponsored by W Midtown - Atlanta Hotel, Emory University Center for Ethics, and St. Mark United Methodist Church. The event was organized by Joshua Noblitt, Carlton Mackey, and Nikki Noto.

I was honored to be a part of something so great. Enjoy this exclusive behind the scenes look. More photos and video to come....





Adam Bouska photographs Cynthia Bailey of Bravo's Real Housewives of Atlanta


Suchita Vadlamani


...stay tuned

Dawoud Bey - The Emory Project

In partnership with the Transforming Community Project (TCP), the Emory Visual Arts Department commissioned internationally renowned photographer Dawoud Bey to develop a series of portraits of the Emory community that communicates the University's diversity. This commission celebrates the culmination of TCP's five-year exploration of Emory's historic and current experiences of race, gender, sexuality and other forms of human difference.


Bey created twenty double portraits, each containing two members of the Emory community; these portraits, along with personal statements written by the portrait subjects, will be on view during this exhibition at the Visual Arts Gallery before they go to their permanent home on Emory’s main campus. Additional programs will include a lecture by Dawoud Bey and a week-long celebration of the making of “The Emory Project,” featuring participant testimonials, documentary footage by Hal Jacobs, and opportunities for additional members of the Emory community to participate in the project.

I had the great fortune of being one of those photographed by Bey. To say I was honored would be an understatement. As a photographer myself, I felt inspired and mentored by him in an instant. I watched his every move. I listened closely to everything he said. He made me feel comfortable, but at the same time, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.


Last week, there was a private reception for those of us who were photographed. We were able to sneak a peak at the website as well as the accompanying documentary. I can't wait to see Dawoud next year and to celebrate the public unveiling of The Emory Project. Stay Tuned.

WONDERROOT GYPSY CARAVAN

I could seriously talk all night about this event. I'm proud of my affiliation with Wonderroot Community Arts Center. I'm proud of our fabulous interns for putting on something so amazing. I'm grateful to all of the designers, performers, dancers, weirdos, models, artists, hookah smokers, and unicyclists who came out to support.

Here you'll find highlights from the fashion show, but to learn more about this event and get links to all the vendors/artists/etc who made it possible HERE.

Special shout out to Sheldon Frazier for this video of the ever amazing gloATL. Kari and I make a cameo at about 1.5 minutes in! See more photos of them on our facebook page.

gloATL dancers at Wonderroot's Gypsy Caravan Artist Market & Fashion Show on May 15, 2010.

CONTEMPORARY VINTAGE URBAN JAZZ

I've been posting a lot more of my photography lately while working hard to perfect the next philm. enjoy.

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...with jazz artist Dalan Vanterpool
photography by Carlton Mackey | www.mytruevision.com

IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD (profile in red)

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I could say a whole lot more, but I'll let the photos speak. All I know is that (after shooting some on location shots) when Dalan came to our studio and started playing his version of John Coltrane and Duke Ellington's classic, In a Sentimental Mood, I knew this series was going to be something special.

IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD
-a portrait session with Jazz Musician Dalan Vanterpool by Carlton Mackey
www.mytruevision.com

BACKSTAGE/ONSTAGE with a Kid Named CUDI

I had the privilege to meet and photograph Kid Cudi a couple of nights ago. Dude is mad cool. He headlined the concert put on by the Emory University Student Programming Council Thurs night. Thanks to my photo assistant John Roberson who I'm soon about to lose to the West Coast (USC calls), B.H., and M.G. in Student Life, I was able to have front, back, side to side access to Cudi.

Believe me when I tell you that I wanted to actually do a quick shoot with him...guerrilla style backstage...but his contract wasn't having it. I can't complain too much though. After the show, I had clearance to go back to the "green room". This is where the meet and greet was supposed to take place. After waiting about 20 minutes and no Cudi, I thought it was a wrap. Then my cell phone rang. It was John letting me know that M.G. was looking for me. Cudi wanted photos ON stage.
BET!
I ran over and saw a mob of people line up behind some barricades. Security ever so politely moved them out of the way and let me and the members of SPC by. Cudi came through and showed all of us love. It was cool. I got a few more photos, jumped off the stage and like Cudi continued on My Pursuit of Happiness.





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I WAS SKY HIGH...

...now I'm experiencing the symptoms of withdrawal. After an amazing four days of "DOPE" energy, ATL had to say farewell to its new friend Loni Schick. Elle-Boogie was in town for the third leg of her photo documentary, I'M SKY HIGH, linking hip hop fans across the United States and Canada.

Atlanta showed love Saturday. In Little Five Points, hip hop fans of all shapes, sizes, and ages came out in droves to participate in this amazing project. In less than an hour and a half it was a wrap. 25 ATL hip-hop fans joined 50 others from LA and Regina who will soon be joined by 25 more in Toronto.

Special shout out to Kari Mackey, Joshua Watkins-Hip Hop for the People, John Roberson III-lead photography assistant, Criminal Records, OMG Online Radio, Writer and Artist-Omotola Ajibade & Family, Stylist and Fashion Coordinator-Tan Everyl, Producer and Musician-Colin Baylor, Producer-Reggie Knowles, Soul Brother #1-Daniel Bustamante, Little Five Points, and everyone who came out to participate.

Be sure to check out www.lonischick.com and be on the look out for the release of I...I'M SKY HIGH. Inspired by Hip Hop-Photographed by Loni Schick.
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SUNDAY in a SPACESHIP - A Valentine's Day Wish

photo by carlton mackey

Hoping the STARS
Bring her the MOON
and if this SUNday
didn't come soon
i'd have to leave EARTH
at high noon
in a spaceship.
-carlton mackey

[for today Sunday/February 14, 2010 - Valentine's Day]

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THREE ARTISTS COLLABORATE

Two Atlanta artists Carlton Mackey and Julia Wallace team up with renowned Bahamian artist Lillian Blades to present artist interpretations of her latest installation -Eye Sea Reflections. Closing reception and artist talk held at Hammonds House Art Gallery in the West End, Atlanta, Georgia.

Hammonds House Museum and Resource Center of African American Art is a fine arts venue whose mission is to preserve, exhibit, and increase public awareness about the contributions that visual artists of African descent have made to world culture. Photography by Kari Mackey




www.lillianblades.com
www.jroxmedia.com
www.visionphilms.com
www.hammondshouse.org