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Mobile Phone Film Festival(s)
We're late to the global party b/c here in the USA our mobile phones are mostly walkaround chat boxes. Y'see, "over there" (meaning both Europe and Asia) using your mobile phone (the vernacular is calling it your "mobile" for short) for taking photos and making little-sized videos is all the rage.

Hence ... the Mobile Phone Film Festival ... movies made exclusively by and for mobile phones. Here's a Wired News story on the phenomenon. It refers to "the world's first" cellular film fest, which was held in Atlanta in '04. Now ... here's a link to the Thumbdance Mobile Film Festival(TM). Next up, the winner of this mobile film fest in New Zealand got a trip to Hollywood. Here in the States, Cingular held its Short Film Fest in the fall of '04 -- which goes to show that it doesn't necessarily pay to be early.

Thanks to Stump for dropping off a Boards Magazine article "Seeing In 3G" ... there's no live link on boardsmag.com yet. I'll update this post when it's up. You can borrow a copy of Boards from your favorite creative director.