Japan puts phone films in its Pocket

The inaugural Pocket Film Festival in Japan, showing movies made entirely on mobile phone cameras, will run Friday-Sunday in Yokohama. [via The Hollywood Reporter]

"Forty-eight films, chosen from more than 400 entries from 18 countries -- including Japan, Singapore, China, South Korea and Germany -- will screen in competition at the festival, organized by the
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music.

The competition has two categories, one for films to be shown on regular screens and the other for films to be viewed on phones. The winning film will receive 500,000 yen (US$4,500).

... The festival also will feature symposiums on the possibilities for new content and applications using the medium of camera phones.

emily | 8:56 AM | Mobile Film Fests/Photography Fests |
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