Size doesn't matter at Paris mobile phone film festival

AFP, June, 2007

PARIS (AFP) — The big screen was the star at last month's Cannes film extravaganza, and now France is now honouring the very small screen with a festival for movies made with and for mobile phones.

The Pocket Film Festival in Paris aims to showcase an emerging art form and to demonstrate that the mobile phone is rapidly becoming the "fourth screen" in our lives, after the cinema, television and the Internet.

The three-day event starting Friday at the Pompidou Centre will show some 200 films from around the world ranging in length from less than a minute to an hour-and-a-half and spanning fiction, documentary, cartoon and experimental video.

Australian Emmelene Landon made the 38-minute "Trans-Siberian to Vladivostok" with a 1.3 megapixel camera on the Nokia phone the festival organisers gave her when she set out on a train trip last year across Russia. ...