SmartPhilm Festival Announces 2018 Winners

Alfonso García López’s “iMedium” has won the Audience Choice Award at this year’s SmartPhilm Festival. Based in Washington DC, the festival showcases shorts shot on smartphones. You can see the complete winner list here. For more about “iMedium” see the piece we did on the movie’s  trailer. In the near future, MobileMovieMaking will comment on other winners…

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FiLMiC Pro Wins MoJoFest’s App of the Year

For the first time, MoJoFest is honoring apps that enhance video production. Their first App of the Year winner is FiLMiC Pro, the popular camera app that adds great functionality to smartphones. FiLMiC Pro, which is now available for both iOS and Android phones, gives users greater control over tasks such as focus, frame rate,  and color balance. This…

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Audio GIFS Come to Imgur Via 30-second Videos

The popular image-sharing site Imgur now makes it possible to post videos. And that makes possible audio GIFS. Will the impact be as great as what happened when the “Jazz Singer” was released in 1927?  With running time limited to 30 seconds, greatness could be a challenge. Yet a quick Google search reveals that there have been…

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Red Hydrogen One Brings 3D to the Small Screen

3D films are not new. Early experiments date to 1915. The 1950s brought the  form’s Golden Age with classics such as “House of Wax” and “Man in the Dark.” But what if you could shoot your own 3D video using a pocket phone? Enter the Red Hydrogen One smartphone slated to be released later this year. Created by…

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More Time to Enter FiLMiC One World Contest

FiLMiC Pro has just announced that they are pushing back the deadline for the  FiLMiC One World Contest to June 30, 2018. The competition is for short films shot using the FiLMiC Pro camera app. There are $25,000 in prizes. The company noted that their Terms & Conditions included a rule prohibiting entries that had appeared in other contests,…

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The Look-alike Vlogger

The wonder thing about vlogging is that it knows no limits. You can vlog about anything: motorcycles, knitting, rock climbing, driving for Uber or Lyft, quantum mechanics…it’s all there, waiting for someone to look into the camera and talk about it or–if words aren’t needed–simply demonstrate. Which brings us to He Yuhong, a Chinese vlogger…

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