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Submissions are closed for IMFF 2025

Below, you’ll find news and updates with links to articles, podcast episodes, details about our film festival and our projects from our advocacy for smartphone filmmaking.

Friday, February 21 San Diego, California

Two months until Kick Off! IMFF 2025 begins April 25.

Come back for updates as we prepare to share the names of all the official filmmakers for our 14th Edition in San Diego.

Happy Birthday to SBP! February 2nd, marked 19 years since we registered our little company in San Diego.

Connect 2025! SBP is working on something for you, and the best part is we’re building it with you. Get involved. Check out the new Featured Community News section!

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We just completed the Judges selection process. We are mutually honored to give your films the best opportunity to win in this year’s IMFF and hope you can make it to San Diego April 25-27. Judges 2025

Thank you to everyone who submitted a film to the 14th Annual Edition of the International Mobile Film Festival. We’ll be in touch very soon and will bring you up to date with the selection process.

Graphic with text and photo of a large group of people smiling with cosplayers on a marina dock posing IMFF 2025: What is in store for mobile filmmaking?

Be sure to join us and find out what’s in store in the future of mobile filmmaking April 25, 26 & 27 in beautiful San Diego.

During our 14th edition, we continue to shine the spotlight on the filmmakers who are making incredible films. Q&A Panels, a workshop, presentations, one of the coolest red carpet experiences, and meeting friends and industry people to collaborate with on future projects.

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Welcome to the AMAZING international mobile filmmaking community! Want to join us?

If you submitted a film to IMFF 2025, check your email for a message from us. Every Submission receives a gift from Videomaker!

SPONSORS 2025

NEWS!

Your films belong to you! We will promote you and your work, give you the platform to distribute and get eyes on your films, roll out the red carpet, and treat every one of you like stars. We believed you could make cinematic films for the big screen using mobile phones before YouTube!

Flashback with Us!

Klaudia Kovacs and Shellsy Malveaux Friday Kick-Off to IMFF 2023. Photo by Susy Botello with iPhone.

Every Submission receives a gift from Videomaker! Our partnership offers a one free year digital subscription to Videomaker magazine when you submit your project to IMFF 2025.

Each subscription features tips and tricks, buyer’s guides for filmmaking equipment, and various editorial content regarding the industry of video. Submissions for IMFF 2025 are open.

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Read testimonials from the filmmakers.

Newest and latest Episode of the SBP Podcast now ready to inspire you!

As we approach the 14th edition of our annual film festival April 25-27, the podcast is taking a back seat but will keep publishing episodes on Tuesdays, though a bit inconsistently. Thank you for understanding.

FLASHBACK!

IMFF 20219…

John Woosley, VIP Guest Speaker, came from Kansas City, Missouri to present his film “Alex and the Firefly” shot with iPhone alongside a hands-on workshop on cinematic filmmaking with iPhones. CK Goldiing, VIP Guest Speaker, came from Sheffield, England to share his film shot with a Samsung smartphone “61 Hugs” which has gone viral, and along with the film he held a Q&A sharing his techniques to promoting films. Both were presented by SBP’s Mobile Film School in San Diego (non-accredited).

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Watch the video about San Diego’s IMFF!

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Our Film Festival in San Diego

Watch now (4 min) | All movies shot with smartphones: The Red Carpet Is In Your Pocket™!

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The SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking is The voice of mobile film™.

A screen grab from a post on LinkedIn in the San Diego Video Production Network group, dated July 3, 2009. "Enter your mobile film shot on your mobile phone into the International Mobil Film Festival™ in San Diego's Community Stories Category free." — Above is a screen grab from years ago, months after promoting our new film festival for films shot with mobile phone cameras for the big screen in San Diego. We created our first category: Community Stories. It was the only category we had for a few years because we didn’t want to limit you to specific categories as long as you shot your films with your phone. The date on the image is from July 3, 2009.

MOBILE FILMMAKING PODCAST HISTORY: This logo was created by Susy Botello September 9, 2012. An idea to start a podcast for mobile filmmakers in 2012? She let it rest four years before diving in again about a year before publishing it October 2017 as the SBP Podcast. Never give up on your ideas. The SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking is thriving with over 185 full episodes.

Want to start your own podcast?

If you are interested in learning how to start a podcast and bring a voice to your community? Contact us for a consultation.

Listen to the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeart, and more!

Our Story Began on September 11, 2001

Have you heard the origin story of how our pioneering film festival was conceptualized? Did you know the idea of making movies for the big screen in the future began on September 11th, 2001?

Listen to the story.

This story is also on the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmakin. Listen to episode 143 of the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking online, download an MP3, or listen in your own app.

ARE YOU AWARE OF OUR SPECIAL PROGRAM? Community Stories is a program that launched almost concurrently with our film festival. We launched this program in July 2009. The program was the first category in the festival. Now it’s a stand-alone program included in the festival when appropriate. The concept is that stories told from within a community or culture are the most powerful. Read more.

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