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Armed with little more than three required elements (a TV newsperson named Gary or Gretta Greenberg, a cell phone, and the line "Where are we going?") and a two-day shooting schedule, the finished products in this year's 48 Hour Film Project are ready to be unveiled to a paying public.

In 2011, nearly 60,000 filmmakers in 96 cities on 6 continents submitted 4,000 films. This year they plan to go even bigger, with filmmakers from across the globe competing to write, shoot, edit, and score a short film in just 48 hours.

The screenings commence tonight at UltraStar Poway. Tickets are $12. This year, the folks at 48HFP were gracious (crazy?) enough to ask this reporter to judge the winning entries. The awards will be handed out on July 8 at 8 p.m. at 8:30pm at The Brigantine, 13445 Poway Road preceded at 5 p.m. by a "Best Of" screening at UltraStar Poway. Click for more information.

SCREENING SCHEDULE

Group A: Screening on Monday, June 25, 7:00PM

• 619 Villain Studios
• Amalgamated Grommets
• D. Padraic Productions
• Down the Block Films
• Epidemic Films
• Hunter Productions
• iO West
• Pocket 4's
• Regalis Films
• Square Peg Productions
• Team Frosty Bear
• Team Zissou

Group B: Screening on Monday, June 25, 9:30PM

This screening group has been canceled and the teams have been moved into other screening groups.

Group C: Screening on Tuesday, June 26, 7:00PM

• Bad and Classic Productions
• Blue Rain Pictures
• Burning Tree
• Cane Toad Productions
• City Band Productions
• Festival City Films
• Frisky Robots
• Las Vegas Sinema
• Mercury Cinema
• New American Standard
• Snarky Films
• Sweet Man

Group D: Screening on Tuesday, June 26, 9:30PM

• Ariodite Films
• City Misfits
• CJ3 Productions
• Intersections
• Omnistories
• Pictish Productions
• Platt College
• Renegade Swine
• Resulting Impact Productions
• Rising Arts Studios
• Section 8
• The Handlebar Mustaches

Group E: Screening on Wednesday, June 27, 7:00PM

• Admanium Films
• Banboc!
• Epic Shun
• Film Antics
• Fine City Productions
• jambalaya productions
• Megamilk
• Quixana
• Running Shadow Productions
• So to Speak Films
• TV Gienek
• Without a Motorcycle
• Group F

Screening on Wednesday, June 27, 9:30PM

• Almost Good Films
• Doorbell Productions
• Essentials
• Henry
• Kilna Companies
• Koo Koo Kachoo
• Purple Berets
• Rock Title Productions
• ROMIX Productions
• Shoot Madness!
• Teseractive Films
• zAP Productions

Group G: Screening on Thursday, June 28, 7:00PM

• Boobs and Zombies
• Cinemanic Films
• Cudafunk
• Indieman Productions
• Infrastructure Films
• Smart Set Productions
• That Much Better
• The Broughams
• The League of Gentleman Adventurers
• The Sleepers
• turbo pursuit mode
• Yet Another Film Team