Global Mobile Film Alliance
We are currently working with our network from our global film community, sponsors and others, building a global Alliance to align IMFF 2027 into our vision of a community based film festival to support human storytelling and filmmaking.
Launched in the Spring 2009, the International Mobile Film Festival, founded by Susy Botello in San Diego, California, began as a unique vision from September 11, 2001 where cinema screens would present films shot with cameras that would make their way into cell phones. It has continued its mission through 15 consecutive annual editions since.
Stemming from the intimacy that the in-person film festival provided an international community of independent filmmakers, the festival is embarking on its new chapter.
Stay tuned, as we bring additional members to the alliance, and realize this vision for IMFF 2027.
Susy Botello | Smartphone Film Industry Pioneer Film Festival Founder, Advocate & Podcaster inspiring storytellers globally.
Susy is currently in Seville, Spain.
“What began as a challenge to filmmakers to realize my vision in 2001, turned into a unique annual international event in San Diego.
Growing up in Spain, Italy, and the United States, an appreciation for the power of storytelling grew with me. While I worked with independent filmmakers, and in video production, I fell in love with the people who make films, and the artistic process of turning stories into films.”
The IMFF is exclusive to only smartphone cameras, and inclusive to all humans around the world. No A.I.
Caroline Spence is a film producer and prolific screenwriter developing a slate of original features with Raya Films, based in the U.K.
She is also a published writer, with work featured in The Guardian, Geographical Magazine, Cambridge University Press, BBC Wildlife, and Film Stories.
Her screenplays have received recognition from established companies in both London and Hollywood, and she has been commissioned to write for clients worldwide. Her most recent release, Daggers Inn, is an atmospheric murder mystery with supernatural undertones.
All of Caroline’s released feature films have screened theatrically at international festivals, winning awards and securing worldwide digital distribution.
Cult Night, a neo-noir thriller, is currently in post-production. The Finca, an unsettling psychological horror, is slated for production in 2026.
James Smith is a cinematographer and editor specializing in feature filmmaking, based in the U.K.
James Smith was born in Surrey, England and brought up in the USA and South Africa before his family returned to Essex in the late 1970s.
Taking advantage of the digital video revolution and teaming up with Caroline Spence, Smith began self-shooting sports promos and documentary films in 2004, developing techniques that hallmark his style today. His award-winning documentary Gentlemen of the Night was screened theatrically, the latest on its tenth anniversary to packed venues.
He adopted smartphone technology during the pandemic, shooting cyber-crime thriller Cyberlante and horror-whodunnit Surveilled, both full feature length films. The Hitchcockian ‘smart horror’ Casting Kill returned his filmmaking to more traditional roots.
Comedy feature Best Geezer premiered in Essex in June 2023 and won Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature at the Skiptown Playhouse International Film Festival in Hollywood, Los Angeles. James Smith and Caroline Spence are currently in post production of of a Neo-noir thriller feature film and in in preproduction of The Finca, a psychological thriller.
Adam Romero Vidal is a new filmmaker from Seville, Spain. He is passionate about auteur cinema, the understanding of art through sound and moving images. He loves to experiment and venture to create all kinds of footage.
Rafael Fort Gomez Director, screenwriter and producer with 20 years of experience in the industry. His leap into the audiovisual industry began in the field of horror short films, a creative laboratory in which he forged his style through pieces that won awards at dozens of Spanish and international festivals.
His work moves between the paranormal and the intimate, challenging the viewer and confirming him as an author with his own voice within the Spanish film scene.
Rafael is currently in preproduction of three short films:
Hellequin, horror
El Ultimo Turno, thriller
Elisabeth, gothic horror
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