72 hours is not a long time. The teams competing in this year's Grand Cinema 72 Hour Film Festival - a yearly Tacoma institution - know this all too well. Last weekend, frenzied packs of Tacoma filmmakers dashed around T-town, hurriedly capturing on film all the entries that will make up this year's manic, competitive filmmaking celebration - set to go down Friday evening at the Rialto Theater. Who will win? How will all the "mandatory elements" - including finding something important in a bag within the first minute, incorporating a map, and the line of dialogue, "Should I know what that means?" - be worked into all of the entries? Only time will tell.

PREDICTION: While it fits the criteria, and coincidentally includes all this year's prescribed "mandatory elements," my 1976 classic adult film Is That Something Important In That Bag or Are You Just Happy To See Me? will not emerge victorious.

Rialto Theater

Friday, May 7, 7 p.m., $11-$15

310 S. Ninth St., Tacoma, 253.572.6062