The Feature has the buzz on cell-phone film festivals:
Atlanta-based Zoie Films has partnered with Tin Can Mobile and Nokia to present a selection of one to five minute works in a new “Cellular Cinema Festival.”
Interestingly, they’re not encouraging filmmakers to develop new works for the media, but rather to “dig deep into your film archives and re-edit features, shorts animations, documentaries and digital content.”
According to an article in Wired News, Zoie Films claims that this is the “world’s first cell-phone film festival.” Zoie doesn’t boast that on their site though–a good thing because as readers of TheFeature know, others blazed the trails on the mobile media festival circuit.
Indeed, content provider BigDigit recently announced the winners in their World’s Smallest Animation Festival at the SIGGRAPH 2004 computer graphics conference. This is the latest in their “World’s Smallest” series of mobile media festivals. The winning clips will be available for download via the mFlix mobile content channel that BigDigit announced on August 20 for Sprint in the US market.
A monthly subscription to mFlix costs $4.95. How much of this do the filmmakers receive? Not a penny.
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