SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATES
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.
Thursday, July 25 San Diego, California
Capture your summer moments and stories with your smartphone, make a film and submit it to IMFF 2025. The red carpet is in your pocket!™
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 without discrimination. Submissions are open for our 14th edition.
Newest and latest Episode of the SBP Podcast now ready to inspire you!
NEWS!
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.
Read the details and criteria.
Our longest running sponsor has confirmed they are sponsoring prizes for 2025. Listen to an insightful conversation with FilmConvert’s Henessey Griffiths in episode 183 of the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking, discuss how to bring the colors of cinema to your films and videos.
READ OUR LATEST NEWSLETTER ABOUT IMFF 2024
CONGRATULATIONS!
Thank you to everyone who participated on our 13th Edition of the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego, California April 26-28, 2024. We’re grateful to all the judges, sponsors and partners, our team and supporters, and all the filmmakers. Read the results of all contests and competitions.
Read testimonials from the filmmakers.
Follow us on Instagram @mobilefilmSD
About our film festival in San Diego, watch the video
Shot with an iPhone, edited in iMovie and music created with Garageband. No ads or distractions, watch this story. The entire production for this video was completed in just over 24 hours.
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 festival founder Susy Botello share her personal 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.
We’re on Patreon and BuyMeACoffee. Support our efforts to inspire and support indie filmmaking with mobile phone cameras and meet a global community.
The SBP Podcast is free to the public with no ads. Help us keep it going with a paid membership and become a patron. Unlock exclusive episodes with the $5 a month membership, less than the price of a taco or a coffee per month. Listen to 25 exclusive 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 Susy Botello for a consultation.
Listen to the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pandora, iHeart, and more!
We Are On Social Media
SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATES!
Social Media apps and websites are limiting content creators’ reach with their community by making it harder to see each other.
The most popular social media platforms are increasingly becoming undependable. It’s having an increasing negative effect on small independent creators and companies like ours, that support filmmakers, artists and creators.
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Hi there! I’m Susy Botello, Smartphone Film Industry Pioneer and Advocate, Founder of the International Mobile Film Festival & a Podcaster, inspiring storytellers globally.
I’m passionate about my quest to empower storytellers, artists and filmmakers. I give a voice to our global community of storytellers and filmmakers through my podcast and a platform with our festival.
My passion keeps growing stronger over time. Since the Spring of 2009, when I launched our film festival, I’ve been advocating for mobile filmmakers, artists and content creators.
Find more about me here.
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