Monday, June 04, 2007

Small screen movies


Here's an example of this exploding market. Of course, using senior actors foremost, I'm on the fringe of it.
clipped from www.usatoday.com
Cell-phone cameras help amateur auteurs make movies
PARIS (AP) — "Silence on the set," ordered movie director Xavier Mussel as he grabbed his cellphone — not to make a call but to film another scene for his short film.

Cheap, easy and accessible, mobiles-as-movie cameras are breaking the motion picture mold, putting a touch of Hollywood into amateur filmmakers' hands. How-to workshops have sprung up from Boston to Abu Dhabi to Rio de Janeiro, and Paris just held its second film festival devoted exclusively to movies shot with cell phones.

Some 8,500 visitors attended screenings at the recent three-day Pocket Films Festival at Paris' Pompidou modern-art museum. In addition to nearly 100 shorts, the fare included three feature-length films — all shot on cells.

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