Mobile Filmmaking in 2025 Looks Back
Let the magic begin!
Can you believe it? 2025 is here and we can’t wait to see what you are creating with your smartphone cameras!
Looking back to when we first launched our film festival (pre-historic times!)we realize how crazy mobile filmmaking sounded at the time.
You’ve heard about the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking, right?
One of the filmmakers who participated and attended this year’s edition (2024) of the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego is a guest on the podcast.
Miguel de Leon had a lot to discuss and the podcast is two parts. Today’s release of the second part is Susy Botello and Miguel Lopez de Leon discuss AI, our festival’s mission, this community and a feature film that Miguel is working on which YOU, yes YOU may want to be involved in!
While we listen to the published episode we are taken back to when we first launched, in the Spring of 2009, people must have thought the challenge sounded so crazy that they were complicating it.
But of course, we were dead serious, so we just rolled with the punches and pushed forward with the concept that you can make films for the cinema screen with a “cell phone”.
People reaching out to as to ask if they could use tripods, something Susy brings up in episode 2010 with Miguel, now makes more sense.
People figured this was a momentary crazy challenge. They were thinking the challenge was so crazy, they were being challenged to use only a cell phone to film and produce a movie for the big screen.
We always pointed out that we were interested in kick starting a future where all movies could be shot with phones for the big screen.
We wonder if they thought the challenge was so crazy that they were supposed to jump through a lot of hoops and keep it 100% with a phone. Today, that is completely the case that you can do that, even for a feature film.
Listen to this year-end episode to listen to an immersive conversation about these topics of interest to our community.
One more thing we are very excited about is that this month we partnered with Angaelica as our fiscal sponsor. We can now accept donations and Angaelica will provide tax-deductible receipts. Angaelica is a non-profit 501(c)(3). We’re really excited and look forward to bringing you year-round smartphone filmmaking opportunities.
There is a highlights video on our support page that we put together to share some of you at our film festival over the years. You’ll find a direct donation button there.
We have plans in store for IMFF that we cannot share yet…but we’ll be making some announcements in the coming weeks and months. It’s getting exciting, so stay tuned!
We wish you the very best 2025 and hope to meet you in San Diego in April!
The red carpet is in your pocket™.
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I am exited to look forward