Springfield & the Ozarks · 22 years

48 hours.
5 minutes.
Make it count.

The Springfield And The Ozarks 48-Hour Film Challenge & Festival. Teams get one weekend to make a film of five minutes or less, then we put it on the big screen.

Three ways in.

Make a film in a weekend, bring your five-minute short from anywhere in the world, or grow a script with us.

The Film Challenge

48 hours. Go.

At Kickoff every team gets the Inspiration Package at the same moment. Then you have 48 hours to write, shoot and edit a film of five minutes or less.

Challenge guidelines →
Prime for Development

Grow your script.

Our script development program helps writers take a story from idea to something ready to shoot.

About P4D →

1,355 films.
One archive.

Every team, every film and every winner, going back to 2006. All made in 48 hours. Find your favorites, revisit past winners, and see what Ozarks filmmakers have been up to.

▶ Browse The Archive
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In Their Own Way poster (2026 Best Film)Say Cheese, Bingles! poster (2026 Audience Favorite)Kitchen Heat poster (2026 Best Film)Annie Sullivan's Methodically Misaligned Day poster (2026 Poster Design)The Sacred Sip poster (2026 Direction)Big Brother, little brother poster (2026 Editing, Lead Performance)Slaydoh 69 poster (2026 Direction)TV Guide poster (2026 Direction and Editing runner-up)

SATO48 films, year-round, on the big screen.

Now playing before every screening at College Station Theaters, with new segments every month celebrating Ozarks filmmakers all year long.

College Station Theaters: Cinema. Reimagined.

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