Launch of the first streaming platform for mobile films is game changer for emerging industry

In 2009, we launched the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego as a platform for all humans around the world. It was soon after launching, in the same year, that the idea of "Community Stories" was conceived.

Read more: Telling Stories from Within Mobile Filmmaking

All humans are invited to make a movie with mobile phone cameras for the International Mobile Film Festival. Our challenge to make films begins at age...zero. That's right. We refuse to put an age limit on our film festival criteria. We have invited kids and teens to take part in our film festival since the beginning of time. Okay since the beginning of "our" time in 2009, at least. We'd like to share a few stories about what makes our Youth Film Category special.

Read more: Smartphone Youth Films

The mobile filmmaking panel during the LockDownCon, a virtual conferenece organized by Neal and Jana Hallford of Swords and Circuitry Studios, based in San Diego took place Sunday, June 28, 2020. It was "simulcast" on Facebook and YouTube LIVE Featuring Jed Brophy and Mark Hadlow of "Blue Moon" by Stef Harris and "The Hobbit" by Peter Jackson.

Read more: Live Virtual Conference Mobile Filmmaking Panel in San Diego

Enlightened and inspired, we are introducing a new category to the 2021 International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego.

With the collaboration of choreographer and soloist filmmaker Jamiel Laurence, we are introducing a unique category to our film festival. Screendance is for dancers using smartphones to choreograph performances for the camera. Using camera movement and style, this category hopes to inspire dancers who perform in front of the camera to team up with a camera person, or more than one, to shoot a story driven performance precisely for the screen.

Read more: Create Screendance Mobile Films