Illuminating Mobile Filmmakers
The 13th Edition of International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego chooses a theme.
Shining a light on the contestants participating in our film festival is not a new thing. We’ve been treating everyone who participates in our film festival since the inaugural festival like stars. And we’ve gotten better and better at it each year.
This year we chose “Illuminate” as our theme. Simply describing a big part of what we’ve done for the mobile filmmaking community since the very first film we received in 2011.
We begin this week with some very cool announcements for the 13th Annual Edition of the festival. We try not to think too much about how far we’ve come on this journey, on this timeline, which we’ve previously referred to as the evolution of filmmaking.
We’ve tasked ourselves each year to bring a platform where filmmakers of all levels of experience and success have come together to celebrate what this niche industry has accomplished each year through people like you.
After all is said and done, our film festival has always revolved around you.
We learned before our first event that when you promote a filmmaker who made an exceptional film with a smartphone camera, it inspires those who are contemplating turning their own stories into films to do it.
This year is our 13th edition and we are honored to illuminate you as a participating contestant in this pioneer international festival.
All the official selectees for this year’s film festival are noted below. If you recognize any of them, send them a huge congratulations. Each year we do our best to select as many films as we can. An in-person event has time limits in a physical space. We bring added value for our event with other engaging elements like a workshop, Q & A Panels and sessions, networking breaks, our red carpet is a unique show, and more festivities.
Attending in person is highly recommended.
Listen to what filmmaker Erifili Davis who flew in from Australia last year said yesterday in a comment on our Facebook post announcing this year’s official selectees:
“Congratulations to all the contestants. I had the *best time* at the film festival last year. I met so many amazing and inspirational filmmakers and I learned so much. Not to mention the fabulous Susy whose passion and hard work makes it possible. If you're a contestant wondering if you should go - DO IT!” — Erifili Davis
Do you know we had a workshop since our inaugural film festival? A teen filmmaker from Macedonia traveled to San Diego to participate in person. He made a short stop-motion film, “Everything is Money” by Dukagjin Borova.
Each year we include a workshop and festival director gets pretty creative in tapping into the mobile filmmaking community to bring unique valuable workshops to the festival each year.
This year we invited the founders of Art School Dropouts to bring teach live-action filmmaking with smartphones. We are honored and grateful to them flying in from New Jersey. Please share it with everyone you know.
Joey Min and Stephanie Pham are the founders of Art School Dropouts and their workshop will highlight their techniques for live action filmmaking. Their film, “No Budget Zorro” shot entirely with an iPhone will be showcased during the workshop.
We’ll be sharing more with you soon.
Congratulations to the official participating contestants!
Official Selectees 2024: Ian Courtney | Sohibanoo Zolghadr | Rick Cerda | Felicia Fairley | Jonathan Lagudi & Laura Brogan Browne | Alexandra Guillossou | Hamid Khosravanipour | Daniel Michael Tomcik | RJ Baculo | Alexandre Belanger | Austin Giles | Erik Hogan | Ryan McDonald | Katerina Desyatova & Charley Stadler | Nora Le Guen | Mohammadreza Moghi | Péter Engelmann & Kata Domján | Michèle M Jedlicka | Dhwani Shah | Lucy Bond & Leo Mitchell | Marta Renzi | Ian Leer | Harry Valentine | Sacha Reyes | Monique Sorgen | Jimena Larraguivel | Réka Shikli | Sophia McDonald | Miguel Lopez de Leon | Vincenzo De Sio
In our next phase we will be preparing films to screen at the festival and officially confirming who is attending in person. We’ll be promoting attending filmmakers so that they can “meet” one another before they meet in person.
We’ll also be creating a program and schedule with every filmmaker and film featured with details.
We are thankful to our partners and sponsors for IMFF 2024 who are helping make this event possible.
FilmConvert | Zacuto | Swords & Circuitry Studios | Engraving Pros | Hall H Show Podcast | Science Fiction Coalition | A Pawsability 4 Veterans | SBP Podcast
And we thank our team and the judges! We’ll sharing more about our judges very soon!
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That's really cool. Though zero experience making one, I'd luv to try it sometime. Regarding the Festival, can attendees or viewers enjoy some or all of the 2024 selections free online somewhere?