The ingredients: a deaf barista working to earn a pilot’s license; a hip musician planning to turn his music into light. The result is “Lightning,” a beautifully crafted romance directed by London-based filmmaker Cristina Isoli Sandri. In the interview (below), Cristina tells how she came up with her original idea. She also explains the importance…
read more →Texas-based Prakash Gandhi Natarajan recently won the People’s Choice Award in MobileMovieMaking Magazine’s first Instagram contest. The challenge was to shoot footage out various windows. On holiday in New York City, Prakash took the assignment to a higher level by including a clip taken from a helicopter. His high-flying selfie demonstrated the impact of including…
read more →Memorable documentaries typically start with gripping subjects such as wars, scandals, and natural catastrophes. But what if you want to shoot a documentary and aren’t lucky enough to encounter a momentous happening? Award-winning mobile journalist Leonor Suárez has the answer: be ready. That was the key to making “El Colacho” an impromptu mobile doc about…
read more →A few months ago we identified Blake Calhoun’s gritty thriller “Miranda” as one of the best mobile movies of 2018. Now the director is back with “First Dance,” a film that couldn’t be more different in terms of mood. That said, this short dance movie about a most unusual date, is as visually arresting as…
read more →Many documentaries strive to deliver only the truth as the filmmakers see it. Ken Burns’s “The Civil War” is rooted in this tradition. Viewers are left to shape their own opinions. But filmmakers can take a very different path and use facts to build a case for action. “An Inconvenient Truth” is perhaps the best-known example. In this second…
read more →Filmmaking can be a highly organized process involving years of planning before taking the first shot. That is the Hollywood “dream factory” method. It works. But there is an alternative—accidental filmmaking— as we learn in the interview with director Karim Saheb. His short, philosophical comedy—”Cold Shower”—won the narrative prize at this year’s Moment Invitational Film Festival. The interview,…
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