September 9, 2004
Textual @traction
Textual @traction is a new film about text messaging which has been selected to compete for Best Short Film, Best Foreign Film and Best Drama, at this year's Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, reports icWales.
The film centres on a young man who finds a lost mobile phone and starts replying to text messages from a mystery stranger.
What makes the film unique is that the audience does not actually get to see the messages on screen. Instead, by pre-registering, they receive the texts to their own phones at the same time as the characters on screen.
Textual @traction shows how a series of passionate messages sent to a lost mobile phone inadvertently allows two gay men to declare their love for each other.
Judging for the awards takes place on Monday.
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