February 4, 2005
Winners of Orange Mobile short film contest to be awarded at Cannes Film Festival
French Mobile Operator Orange is launching a "Short Film Festival", open to amateurs, film school students and video buffs. Each film must be no longer than 5 minutes and is to be viewed on a new generation camera phone.
Any genre is acceptable - fiction, animation, documentary - and must be sent to the contest organizers no later than March 31st.
The jury, made up of film industry celebrities will select 5 finalists and next May, the winners will receive their awards live from the Cannes Film Festival. [via Netéconomie (in French)
Previous Short Film Festivals for Mobile Phones:
-- Cingular Mobile FIlm Festival
-- Edward Lachman and Motorola team up for camphone documentaries
-- Filmmakers, advertisers rush to create content for cell phone screens
-- Lights, Mobile Phone, Action
-- Zoie Films sponsors it's first annual "Cellular Cinema Festival"
-- 10 Second Film Festival announces "Call for Entries"
-- World's Shortest Film Competition
-- Orange seeks mobile filmmakers
-- 15-second films for Nokia 3650s entered in The Raindance Film Festival
-- World's Smallest Film Festival Showcased
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