At Friday’s second annual Limelight Film Festival films, Wichita State students competed to their films stacked up. Here’s the catch: all films must have been made in 24 hours. Other guidelines were set by the competition, Down to the Wire.

About 50 people settled in to watch this year’s three film submissions: “Appetite for Destruction,” “Re-UP,” and “Wichita State’s Housing Harlem Shake.”

“Re-Up,” which tells of a drug deal gone wrong, was produced by Andre Kahmeyer, Jacob Riggs and Harrison Steele. It also featured acting from Andres Rivas-Cruz and Aaron Kahmeyer.

This film took best Best Director (Andre Kahmeyer), Best in Show and the Audience Choice award. “Re-Up” was also the 2012 Tallgrass Film Festivals winner for the Down To The Wire film competition, beating out 26 other film submissions to take the top spot.

The Down To The Wire film competition is a “24 Hour Film Race” that gives teams 24 hours to write, shoot and edit a film shorter than six minutes. The event is sponsored by Creative Rush and the Tallgrass Film Association.

Although all members of the group have had experience in filmmaking, the group said that “Re-Up” was their first official short film, and their first real attempt at drama.

“Trying to create suspense is interesting, and is hard to do,” Steele said.

Like most groups, the team said it had no time to waste on strategy. With a looming deadline, speed was the name of the game.

The competition guidelines stated that four elements that had to be in your film: a theme, location, props and a line of dialogue. They were instructed to return in 24 hours with a DVD in hand. The short timeline often encroached on teams’ sleeping schedule.

“We got three hours of sleep,” Kahmeyer added. “We all took naps.”

Drew Davis won Best Director for “Appetite for Destruction,” an animated film he produced and directed with the help of John Osborne. The film featured the voice acting of Davis, Osborne, with Blasé Martinez, Anthony Rodriquez and Hunter Ronald also helping.

The film details a series of hijinks involving a variety of foods taking the place of people. The film was the first episode in a series will be uploaded to YouTube.

The last film to be shown was WSU’s Housing Harlem Shake video. The video featured more than 40 people performing the Harlem Shake in the Fairmount Towers Cafeteria. It can be found on YouTube.

Jessica Phommachanh, the arts chair for Student Involvement, said they hope for more entries and a larger audience next year.

When asked if he would attend this event again, Morgan Schreiner, a WSU freshman said, “Oh yes, yes, certainly.”

The event was sponsored by Student Involvement. The festival gave out awards for Best Actor, Best Director, Best in Show and Audience Choice, where members of the audience voted for the film they enjoyed the most.