by Paul Grondahl.

Filmmakers shot short films on cellphones and the Tribeca Film Festival screened them and streamed the content digitally via an iPhone app.

A dozen of the feature films shown last month at Tribeca were low-budget indie projects funded by Kickstarter, a “crowd funding” Internet site that helps creative people use social media to cobble together hundreds of micro-investments of $25 to $100 to finance their movies.

The filmmaking landscape is becoming increasingly flat. Yesteryear’s movie studio moguls have been eclipsed by a couple of twentysomething dudes with a Mac and a wi-fi connection who post shorts to YouTube from a suburban garage.

The digital revolution is rewriting the rules of making and distributing movies at a dizzying velocity in what Tribeca’s co-founder, Craig Hatkoff, calls a “disruptive innovation” upending the film industry.

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from Auckland Scoop.

Local mobile film innovators Virtuo (Auckland | Strasbourg | Helsinki) and MINA(Aotearoa) have collaborated on the creation of a global live mobile film event, ‘Shoot Me Now’, as part of the French short film festival “Le Jour Le Plus Court”, to be held on 21 December.

The 21st of December is the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest day of the year, hence the title of the festival ‘Le Jour Le Plus Court’/’The Shortest Day’. On this day over 1800 events will be held throughout France, celebrating the creativity and diversity of short film across a variety of formats including web, mobile, TV and cinema.

In keeping with the festival’s aim to promote participation and creativity, Virtuo and MINA have created ‘Shoot Me Now’, a live mobile film event for “Le Jour Le Plus Court”, that anyone with a smart phone and a wifi or 3G connection can take part in. Films will be shot on mobile devices in real time and streamed live on the web at www.shootmenow2011.wordpress.com/

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“A good pocket film means recording personal happenings, or someone’s personal way of observing the world,” he says. “Normally people try to imitate the big Hollywood films but to make a really good short pocket film make sure [you] start collecting many images. A month or so later you can start to edit them and see what you did.”

Rupert commented on my blog post, Mobile Filmmaking, so I thought I would copy it here so you can read it. And please check out his site below.

“I just moved to the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island last summer. I started shooting, cutting and posting with my Nokia N93 January 2007 and then started posting them using the phone’s wifi to Twittervlog.tv, where they’d also get posted straight up to Twitter. So people could react immediately. This was before Qik and all the other mobile vlogging & twittering apps. I’ve slowed down with the mobile posting recently, but it’s changed my whole approach to filmmaking.
You can see some of my best stuff at:
http://twittervlog.tv/?page_id=148