This one comes from the “where did they get my contact info from/they know I’ll blog it because I’ve done it before/phished, but don’t mind this time” pile.
From the email that they sent me:
Mobifest, the world’s largest independent mobile film festival, will screen more than fifty made-for-mobile movies – each under one-minute in length – Sunday, October 1, 2006, from 4:00 to 6 PM, at the Princess II Theatre, 10337-82 Avenue, part of the Edmonton International Film Festival.
In addition to showcasing the winning entries from this year’s Mobifest Mobile Film Festival, the event will preview the mobile serial or “mobisode”, “The History of Hooch”, by Genie Award-winning director, David Ostry.
“Mobile movie making is just like finger painting,” says Ostry. “I get to have fun with a new medium where anything is possible”. Ostry has won numerous awards for his short films, including his most recent “Milo 55160”. Named by Playback Magazine as “One of the 10 to Watch for in 2006”, he is currently in post-production on the comedy feature, “Mr. Gibb”, for Kevin Spacey’s Trigger Street Independent.
The screening will be preceded by a discussion with Edmonton Film Festival Chair, Mieko Ouchi, and Mobifest winner, Harley Hay. Hay who is from Red Deer, Alberta won Mobifest’s “Best of Festival” Award for his comedic short, “Regurgitation”. Duncan Kennedy, Executive Producer of Mobifest, hosts the discussion.
If you are in Edmonton and want to see it – check out Edmonton Film Fest or do it on the cheap by going to the website.
So here is more proof of what can be done and is being done outside of school with cells/ubergadgets. It just goes to show how far school and the rest of the world are drifting. Granted it’s not something that is available to everyone, but those who have access to the technology should not be limited because of a blanket rule. Having said all that, Art and Science are two places that technology integration can move along quite quickly if there is motivation, but the opposite is also true as there are many administrators who will tout “the basics” just to save money.
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