Sudhanshu Saria, a senior in film making at Ithaca College, is participating in a cell phone film contest in Ithaca, N.Y., Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2005. Ithaca College has invited high school and college students from across America to submit a 30-second film shot entirely with a cell phone. Saria likes the novel challenges presented by working with a cell phone and a 1- to 2-inch screen. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

Ithaca College Launches $5,000 Cell Phone Film Fest
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The school has invited high school and college students across America to submit a 30-second movie shot entirely with a cell phone. It may come off like a gimmick, but Dean Dianne Lynch has no doubts about the contest's academic value. In today's media marketplace — where cell phones can take pictures, play music and games and connect to Web sites — it's all about thinking small and mobile.

And now to quote a colleague ... "Why aren't WE doing this?"

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