Inspired by the Blog article: “How Long Until A Feature Film Made on the iPhone is in Theaters” by Peter Hall, our Intern Heather Poole gives her opinion on the future of Filmmaking:
The new iPhone 4G is the latest
edition to the Apple revolution but is it the beginning of the end for
the big screen in cinema?
By: Heather Poole, ECU 2011 Festival Intern
With new technologies constantly emerging,
it’s no wonder that the culture in which we view films, television, ...
It was a pending decision for almost 5 year. I was striving to make my first short film from last so many years obstacle by finance & a great team. In the summer of 2009, I finally decided, finalized my screenplay & quit my ad agency job. Now I proudly say that all the efforts where worth it. While making SMS, I have actually come nearer to myself as the journey is far greater than the destination.
Starting the idea of SMS was from the scratch. It was the winter of 2008, when I ...
SMS - Short Film's 30 secs Promo
Director: Rajinder Singh Puller.
SMS is a simple story with strong McLuhan-ian undercurrents to it. A young girl is alone in a house that is broken into by burglars. Hiding for her life and desperate for help, her only way of communicating with the outside world is her new mobile phone; and there is only one number on it - a wrong number. Will she get help at all, and in time? How far will someone go to help someone whose identity is only a number on their mobile phone? The story subtly embodies McLuhan’s theory of technological determinism in saying that technology shapes our lives as we shaped it’s tools.
The Mobile Excellence Awards (MEA) today announced its 2008 Mobile Excellence Awards winners presented on December 8th during the Mobile Excellence Award Winner's Ceremony & Reception at the Sofitel Hotel in Los Angeles. The Mobile Excellence Awards were founded to recognize the best in mobile categories including media, marketing and technology within the mobile entertainment industry. The annual Mobile Excellence Awards are one of the most influential and prestigious events in the Mobile Enter...
- Mobile Media, App, Game, and Banking Industry Innovators Headline Inaugural Social Change Summit -With WIRED Magazine as Presenting Sponsor, top mobile innovators and entertainment professionals will convene for The Hollywood Hill's two-day Hollywood summit to discuss the social change opportunities being created by innovators in Mobile Media, Mobile Apps, Mobile Games, and Mobile Banking. Official Website: http://mobile.hhill.orgHollywood -- September 9, 2008 -- The Hollywood Hill - the ent...
Mobifest, the world's largest independent mobile film festival, will screen more than fifty made-for-mobile movies at Mobilefest International Festival of Mobile Art and Creativity in São Paulo, Brazil.Mobifest, the world's largest independent mobile film festival, will screen more than fifty made-for-mobile movies, each under one-minute in length, Friday, November 17, 2006 at 1 PM at SESC Avenida Paulista, part of Mobilefest International Festival of Mobile Art and Creativity, which is being h...
A very different film festival took place in Los Angeles last night with cinema buffs huddled around cell phones rather than gazing up at the big screen to view and vote for their favorite short movie. More than 200 attendees cast their votes in real time via text messaging powered by Mozes.com to select the $3,000 Jury Prize winning film – a 90 second comedy entitled “Pumpkin” by Matt Paige of Sante Fe, New Mexico. An alum of the College of Sante Fe where he’s now an adjunct professor t...
An interview with SMS Sugar Man producer Michelle Wheatley1. Tell us some things about you. Who is Michelle Wheatley?Hhmmm, that question caught me off guard… Usually people want to know about the director. I’m driven by passion; I absolutely love what I do. I’m not interested in conventional projects; I like to be on the edge. Doesn’t always make for easy film making…2. Why did you decide to produce a movie that is shot exclusively with the use of mobile phones? I have been collabora...
Phoning it inThe world’s first full-length movie to be shot entirely on cellphones has just been wrapped up in Joburg, writes Ryan FortuneIT’S 3AM on Christmas morning 2005 and while Santa makes his final deliveries to good children around the world, a bunch of filmmakers in the pool bar of Johannesburg’s Melrose Arch Hotel are accelerating the digital cinema revolution.They’ve been shooting for over a week now, mostly nights. Everyone’s dead tired, so this particular scene is taking a...
On 4th November mobile multimedia professionals will meetat Schmidt-Theater in Hamburg, to explore trends, content and business models for mobile media. The symposium is organised by the team of Bitfilm Festival, which takes place at the same time, in cooperation with the State of Hamburg’s Independent Media Commission (HAM), Studio Hamburg and Debitel subsidiary Midray.Will we watch TV on cell phones ? Will animated ring videos replace ring tones?Which fi lms, series, and games work well on t...
Cannes Market is launching a new initiative within the Short Film Market:The Short Film Digital Avenue sponsored by ADMC is a place next to the Short Film Corner where technolgy leaders will demonstrate during Cannes Festival the breakthrough avenues of new windows, new media, new delivery systems, adaptation of old media to new technology...New sources of revenues.A NEW AVENUE FOR SHORT FILMMAKERSBooths, displays, demos, sampling, The Short Film Digital Avenue is a co production between CannesM...
Filmfestivals Entertainment Group Selects Genesis Technology Group to Distribute SMS Entertainment Content to Chinese MarketsInternet's leading entertainment portal targets Chinese SMS users; Genesis China Roundtable in Paris scheduled for March 26thGenesis Technology Group, Inc. (OTCBB: GTEC) announced today the signing of a contract with FilmFestivals Entertainment Group (FFEG), a French corporation with headquarters in Paris. Genesis will forge strategic alliances for FFEG in China to remarke...
