OC film student participated in Oklahoma City’s 48-Hour Film Project this summer

Oklahoma Christian University’s award-winning Film and Media Production program continues to reflect the professionalism and creativity of students. This summer, Charles Luckett, a junior, participated in a one-of-a kind filmmaking project. Every year, film crews in 130 cities around the world compete in a unique competition known as the “48-Hour Film Project.”

The festival is the world's oldest and largest timed filmmaking competition. Winning films in each city are invited to screen at the Filmapalooza festival, and some have even been screened at the famed Cannes Film Festival. Those possible rewards  led Luckett, along with 35 other Oklahoman filmmakers, to converge together and participate in the challenge.

 The requirements of the “48-Hour Film Project” are quite difficult. Each team of filmmakers received a message regarding the film topic and guidelines. Then from that moment on, filmmakers had only 48 hours to write, film, edit and submit their projects. 

As expected, the two days of filming are full of hard work and little to no sleep. For students like Luckett, it was worth every minute for this one-of-a-kind experience.

“It is a weekend full of Monsters, Bangs and Five Hour Energy,” he said. “It was absolutely worth it; getting to meet all these new people and learn from their experiences taught me so much. Not everything you can learn from a classroom; some things you just have to go out and do, and this was that experience for me.”

After filming, Luckett joined the crew of 35 people for a screening of the Oklahoma City films from the festival the next week, seeing his work literally on the big screen in a local theater.