Tyler Film Fest 48-Hour Film Challenge

The Tyler Film Fest 48-Hour Film Challenge is a timed filmmaking contest run by the Tyler Film Festival in East Texas. Teams are assigned a genre and required elements at a Friday kickoff at the Liberty Hall Theater in downtown Tyler, have until midnight Sunday to finish an original short, and see every film screened at Liberty Hall the following Tuesday. The winner is accepted into the fall Tyler Film Festival. The first edition ran April 17–21, 2026, and drew 66 participants on 13 teams from across East Texas; the winning film was The Chat by Robert Bryce Neel.

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