The Australia-based SmartFone Flick Fest (SF3) will hold a special screening for the top 10 kid-made mobile movies submitted to this year’s competition. Entrants, who can live anywhere in the world, must be 16 years or younger. The prize for best film includes a week long filmmaking workshop at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art), apps, mics and more.…
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Daria Litvichenko, a young filmmaker from Moscow, won the Emerging Talent Award at this year’s SmartPhilm Fest. Her film—”Pushkin and the Dragon”—dramatizes the universal hunger for friendship. Combining realism and magical realism, the iPhone-shot movie also makes the case that even in our image-dominated world, words still matter. Although Daria is known for her skills as an animator,…
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Mobile moviemakers often point out that they can achieve visual results equal to those obtained using traditional cameras. Slow mo, freeze frame, time-lapse—it’s all possible with phones, tablets, and other devices. Less discussed are the visual surprises that you can do only with a mobile. Case in point: Nigel Sylvester’s “London to Paris,” which takes viewers on a BMX athlete’s wild ride.…
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According to W. Edwards Deming, “Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.” We’re not surprised. Our interviews with scores of successful mobile moviemakers reveals that almost all of them shoot movies because they love doing so. But that doesn’t mean competing for a filmmaking prize is a bad thing. In fact, for lots of…
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Seeking money to complete their film— “Unfateful”—the producers begin their crowdfunding video with a series of person-on-the-street interviews. They ask: “Is it possible to make a feature film using a smartphone?” Everyone answers, “No.” Then, to disprove that skepticism, the video presents a dazzling assortment of movie clips of the sort you’d see in a high-budget…
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One of the great things about smartphone moviemaking is that your camera is always with you. Which brings up one of the worst things about smartphone moviemaking: there are lots of opportunities for losing your camera. This happened with a woman named Alyssa, who dropped her iPhone X into a river. The phone contained priceless photos…
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