Audience Award voting is now open! View and rate all 15 finalists. The winning film will receive $500 and go onto screen at the Taos Shortz Film Festival in Taos, NM. Voting runs until January 11, 2012.

Be sure to leave a review of the films and share your favorites!

The results are in! The first round of judging has been completed to determine the 15 finalists for the 2011 National Film Challenge.

All finalists will go to a second round of judges who will determine the Grand Prize Winner. You can view all 15 finalists online and vote for the Audience Award. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $1,000 and the Audience Award Winner will receive $500. Both films will screen with the 48 Hour Film Project City Winners at the Taos Shortz Film Festival next March.

Here is the list of finalists (in alphabetical order by film name):

The flurry of films has settled. Here is a list of teams that turned their film in on time and will be continuing on to be judged by an international panel of judges. Finalists will be announced in coming weeks. What a wild weekend.

2011 ELIGIBLE TEAMS: