48 Hour Film Premieres + SOFLA Filmmaker Showcase Screening

🎬 Lights, camera, action!

The Arts Accelerator Film Festival is South Florida’s premiere event for emerging filmmakers.

Discover the future of film with this year’s premieres and awards from two exciting tracks:

The 48-Hour Film Project:

An intense, fast-paced challenge of creativity and technical skills, where filmmakers compete to make the best short film based on a given theme in only 48 hours.

The South Florida Filmmaker Showcase:

Where regional filmmakers compete for a chance to qualify for the South Florida Filmmaker Showcase, a global distribution launchpad for South Florida filmmaking talent.

The Arts Accelerator Film Festival is a unique opportunity to discover emerging local talent, network, develop your skills, and launch your career!

Discover Emerging Talent

• Discover (and vote for!) the winners of the 48-Hour Film Project and the qualifying films for the 2024 South Florida Filmmaker Showcase.

Network

• Rub shoulders with seasoned producers, celebrity judges, and Hollywood talent. Share your passion, forge partnerships, expand your network, meet collaborators, and unlock a world of opportunities.

Develop Your Skills

• At the Screenwriting Masterclass where you’ll learn the skills you REALLY need to work as a professional writer.

Discover rising stars from the next generation of Florida filmmakers at the Arts Accelerator Film Festival, where the future of filmmaking comes to life.

📅 Date: Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025

Time: 1:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Location: Savor Cinema, 503 SE 6th St, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Parking: Free in the garage across the street from the cinema.

🎟️ Get Your Tix!

🎬 48-Hour Film Project

The “Audience Choice” award vote will occur at the end of the premiers. Winning films will be announced at the Awards Ceremony.

🎬 48-Hour Film Project

Audience Choice award vote occurs at the end of the premieres. Winning films will be announced at the Awards Ceremony.

🎬 48-Hour Film Project

Audience Choice award vote occurs at the end of the premiers. Winning films will be announced at the Awards Ceremony.

Included FREE with any ticket purchase

🍸 Expand your professional network! Learn about upcoming film projects and opportunities in this special networking event where film creatives find future collaborators. It takes a village to make a film. Start assembling or growing your village!

Drinks are available for purchase at the Savor Cinema bar.

Food is FREE and provided by Impex Catering.

🎬 Screening of regional short filmmakers competing for a chance to qualify for the South Florida Filmmaker Showcase, a global distribution launchpad for South Florida filmmaking talent.

Audience Choice award vote occurs at the end of the premieres. Winning films will be announced at the Awards Ceremony.

🌟Includes awards for films from all premiers, including the Arts Accelerator Florida Filmmaker Showcase and the 48-hour Film Project.

Festival Judges: TBA

🌟 South Florida Filmmaker Showcase Awards:

• Audience Choice Award
• Best Film

🌟 48-Hour Film Project Awards

• Best Film, 2nd Place, 3rd Place
• Audience Choice - Voted for at the awards ceremony by attendees
• Best Actor
• Best Directing
• Best Cinematography
• Best Use of Line
• Best Writing
• Best Sound

48-Hour Film Project Best Film Prizes include

• 8 hours of free studio time at CML Studios
• $500 Gift Certificate from Budget Video Rental,
• Screening at the 48hr world competition at Filmapalooza 2024 in Seattle, WA
• A chance to screen at the Cannes Film Festival.

Included FREE with any ticket purchase

About Arts Accelerator

Arts Accelerator is a nonprofit with a mission to enable local talent to create valuable media with global reach.

Florida is full of talent, but for decades, South Florida creatives have had to leave the region to develop their skills and sustainably monetize their talent.

Arts Accelerator was founded to stem this creative drain by helping local talent develop sustainable entertainment industry careers in South Florida.

To do this, Arts Accelerator offers programming designed to provide local creatives with exposure to industry professionals, rapid upskilling, talent discovery, and promotion & monetization opportunities.

Programming includes film workshops, film festivals, networking events, live script readings, and distribution opportunities designed to help local talent develop sustainable entertainment industry careers in South Florida.

Arts Accelerator: Developing South Florida film talent. For more information go to www.artsaccelerator.org.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!

This programming was funded in part by the Broward Board of Trustees and the Broward County Commissioners. Sponsored by Savor Cinema, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, CML Studios, Budget Video Rental, Film Lauderdale, and Broward Cultural Division

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale, 503 Southeast 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale, United States