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smartphone filmmaking to a reasonable box office success. While we will see more mobile,
pocket and smartphones films being produced by Hollywood producers, directors and
film crews, MINA shows the alternative space for smartphone filmmaking. As a festival
engage communities and drive social innovation. Creativity is the currency to continuously
redefine smartphone filmmaking aesthetics and their focus on personal storytelling. We are
happy for filmmakers to expand on formats, break the known rules and support creative
experimentation.
Since 2011 the Mobile Innovation Network and Association celebrates mobile, pocket and
smartphone filmmaking. The annual screening provides an overview of the trends and
to smartphone filmmaking. In its 8th edition we present 14 smartphone and pocket films, 8
smartphone films in the New Voices category and a mobile cinematic VR showcase. The Mobile Innovation Network and Association is a collective by smartphone filmmakers
creating a community for smartphone filmmakers, creatives and makers. In 2018 we ran a
Smartphone Filmmaking and Social Media Content Production as well as Cinematic VR and
The work by the filmmakers in the New Voices
360° video production workshops. We are also running specialised tutorials for community
category and the International Mobile Innovation
groups, organisations, NGOs and enterprise. Contact us via www.mina.pro to find out more
Screening makes a bold statement showcasing
about how smart storytelling can engage communities and spark creativity.
experimental screen productions.
Max, Festival Director
Special thanks to award winning smartphone filmmaker Adrian for fantastic program design,
Krish Nand for the sound showreel edits, Martin Koszoljo for the new MINA music produced
entirely on mobile devices. We would also acknowledge the smartphone films that were
submitted but did not make it to the screening program. Fellow filmmakers we hope you
Twitter @MINAmobile
Facebook www.facebook.com/mobileinnovationnetwork
or our Melbourne based Smartphone Filmmaking & Social Media Content Production meet-up.
16 international judges selected films from Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Russian Schleser, M. (2018) ‘MINA – Mobile Innovation Network Australasia’ MediaNZ Media Studies Journal of
Federation, UK, USA, which are curated by Max Schleser. Aotearoa New Zealand Digital Communities – Volume 16 Issue 1.
Following the screening at the Australian Centre for the Moving-Image in 2017 we are excited Schleser, M. (2018) “Smart Action and the Connected Self” in Bohr, M. and Sliwinska, B. The Evolution of
to be at Swinburne University of Technology this year. Max Schleser from MINA recently wrote the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self. Routledge: London.
some articles and book chapters about MINA. These are available online and via libraries.
He also edited Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones with Marsha Berry who presented
at the Mobile Innovation and Mobile Creativity Symposia. We will announce our plans for 2019
"MINA provides a great platform for discussion and allows and 2020 at the screening.
diverse filmmakers from all around the world to grow
MINA is an open space. If you are interested in smartphone filmmaking and mobile creativity
creatively. MINA is one of the longest running smartphone
join our celebration of mobile, pocket and smartphone filmmaking.
film festivals in the world"
Adrian, Creative Producer
Max co-found MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network & Association, and curates the annual
International Mobile Innovation Screening and produces the International Mobile Innovation
DVD and eBook.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-emea-education-summit-2013/max-schleser-the-school-
of-design-massey-university-new-zeland/
Australia Max is represented by The Next Speaker. For screening, workshops or presentation request
are screened at film festivals, galleries, museums and online, such as Videoscope, Pocket Film
Festival, HeART beat Festival, Museu da Imagem e do Som do Estado, South London Gallery,
East End Film Festival, Future Film and The Smalls, FLEFF Film Festival, New Zealand Film
Archive, Te Papa Tongarewa. Max worked on mobile media consultancy projects for Adobe,
Nokia, Open Lab and Frontier Strategy. Max co-found MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network
Sylvie Prasad is a visual artist and a senior lecturer in Media and Communications at the Ulrike has a background in photography and also completed an M.A. in Film and Theatre
University of East London. She has published work on lifestyle television and celebrity culture. Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Psychology in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Aberystwyth
Media and screen work have been exhibited widely and her short film May Days was featured (Wales, UK) and Prague (Czech Republic). She has worked as a camera assistant and editing
on BBC Radio 4’s Pocket Cinema and Pick of the Week. Her forthcoming book Creative Mobile intern for TV productions and has also had wide practical involvement in international film
Media is to be published by World Scientific. and arts festivals in both Europe and New Zealand.
Ulrike coordinates a wide range of film and arts programmes for the Goethe-Institut NZ. She
also organises the annual German Film Festival in New Zealand that takes place in five cities
around the country. In her spare time she offsets all this screen time with making pottery.
Dr. Gerda Cammaer is Associate Professor at the School of Image Arts where she teaches in the Smiljana Glisovic’s research is located in the field of documentary and poetic forms of
Film Program (BFA) and the Documentary Media Program (MFA). She is currently the program audiovisual practice. Her research interrogates how moving image and sound can act as
director of the Film Program. Both as scholar and as filmmaker she specializes in experimental conduits toward affective and transformative experiences; how this practice can be used as
and documentary film, microcinema and mobile filmmaking. She is the co-director of the a methodology toward an ‘other’ kind of ‘knowledge’ of environments; and how this form can
Documentary Media Research Centre (DMRC) and co-founder and organizer of the Moving facilitate unique expressions of experience of place. She has worked across various mediums
Image Arts international short film festival, both in the School of Image Arts. and forms, as an artist, actor, writer and filmmaker. She works at RMIT University in the School
of Media and Communication where she teaches in Creative Writing and Media.
As a writer and director Kerreen has created quality screen content with a focus on Vanessa Vox, born in Paris, studied Art History in Aix-en-Provence and worked as a dancer and
devising new works, cross-art form practice, social justice and adaptation for national and choreographer in France, Germany and Switzerland. 2003 she began to explore the world of
international clients across a range of genres and formats. digital art and video editing in collaboration with a swiss musician and artist. 2013 she moved
Her independent film projects include short fiction, documentary, advocacy, education and back to France, where she started to work on photos and videos exclusively with mobile apps.
training corporate videos, machinima animation, experimental and dance films which have Vanessa was thrilled by the ability to intuitively transform the spontaneous shots and video
all screened in film festivals, on television, online, in galleries and exhibitions. She created sequences taken by her iPhone to an iconographic or dreamlike level. She started a mobile
and developed a 3D virtual world in Second Life, entitled Foul Whisperings, Strange Matters video series on January 2014. The results are short experimental movies (art films) combined
(2008-2010) based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Her latest documentary Girls Can Do Anything with her own mobile music or the music of Orlando Bay.
featured in the Contesting Spaces 1: Women In Sport exhibition, John Curtin Gallery, Perth
2015 Vanessa was also co-editor of the Mobile Movie Column of theappwhisperer.
(2018).
Some of her short videos have been screened in Italy (L’Arte è Mobile, 2014), Australia/New
She is a recipient of three ATOM (Australian Teachers Of Media) awards and nominations: In
Zealand (#MINA2015 & 2017), Germany (Blaue Stunde VII/VIII, 2016 & 2018), USA (FVAF2 2016
Her Own Words, Best Education Resource winner (1997); Even Girls Play Footy, Best Secondary
Education Resource nomination (2012); Parts of a Horse, Best Short Film nomination (2003). & LACE gallery LA, 2016 / #HeForShe LA, 2016 / mDAC2016, Palo Alto / North Portland, 2016 /
She is currently a lecturer at Curtin University, where she teaches screenwriting, creative
media theory and production. Her research practice is in staging and performing personal
stories, life story and memory narratives on film; social storytelling; mobile and micro screen
His storytelling practices explore notions of identity, belonging and knowing, and engage with In his reseach, Bernhard explores the impact of mobile technology on journalism—new ways
digital media and networked technologies, ranging from traditional forms of film production in which it is produced as well as consumed (or interacted with)–with a particular focus on the
to mobile application development processes that involve GPS and Bluetooth technologies. representation of migration in this, the mobile context.
His teaching and research focuses on media production in the areas of documentary, social
Graduated in media science, psychology and new German literature. Christian Kahnt worked
media, mobile media, interactivity, career development, and creative practice research.
for the Goethe-Institut in Germany, Lebanon and Ivory Coast. Since 2016 he lives in Wellington
He enjoys developing mutually beneficial, collaborative projects with individuals and
and runs the Goethe-Institut New Zealand.
organisations, such as the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission and
Winda Mara Aboriginal Corporation, that have a positive impact on the community. He is a
former director of Critical Animals Creative Research Symposium. He has worked as a digital
producer within the film, television, online media, and festival sectors for more than a decade.
to and practices of play. Discourses he is specifically interested in, are play and materiality,
play and learning, and critical play. He runs the University’s monthly workshop series which
is about electronics, mechanics, alchemy, interface devices and dangerous things. In his
own practice, he makes interactive works which are shown at art exhibitions, academic
conferences and popular events. Daniel is author of a monograph about play as a perspective
in everyday computer use (transcript, 2010), and editor of a volume on the playful disruption
In the last 30 years, Marcelo has been working on advertising, journalism, television Matt is a passionated Animation and Video teacher at the Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam (www.
programming, Internet & mobile in Brazil and abroad. glr.nl), Adobe Education Leader and freelance trainer under the name of Cutaway.nl. The GLR is
a vocational career school in media and design in both K-12 and Higher Ed. Matt’s students are
in the age of 16-20 years old. He is in teaching for more than sixteen years. Matt has organized
a world wide video competition with the name “Global Video Battle” for five years in a row and
made connections with his students and students from literally all over the world.
His favourite subjects to teach are the software tools which can make things move. From the
Adobe tools he’s most fond of Animate, Premiere Pro and After Effects and he like to combine
those with Photoshop, Illustrator and Cinema4D. His motto is “never stop learning” which is
Mobile filmmaking pioneer, winner of short film festivals worldwide including Interfilm Berlin Gaby David is an artist, visual sociologist, researcher, and art teacher. She holds a Ph.D. from
2004-Micromovie Award (Berlin, Germany), Mobifest (Toronto, Canada, 2008), Nontzefilm the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), in Paris, from the Centre of history
(Bilbao, Spain 2006) Función Video (Barcelona, Spain 2007), Filmmaka (Los Angeles, USA 2007), and theory of arts. Specialized in mobile media and visual cultural studies, she also holds a
among others. Lecturer-researcher in Autonoma University, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Masters in Fine Arts and a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language Diploma.
Cali University, Xaveriana University, and Externado University. Convergent media production,
Currently she is a Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche sur le Cinéma et l’Audiovisuel
cloud and mobile tools for social networking, EXTERNADOTV and EXTERNADORADIO . Guest
(IRCAV), at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, an Art Professor at the Higher School
speaker in Cátedra UNESCO (Unesco Lecture) (Pontifical Xaveriana University, Bogotá 2014),
of Arts Nord-Pas de Calais Dunkirk-Tourcoing and a Lecturer for the Masters program at the
FELAFACS 2012, Lima University (Lima, Peru and MINA 2012 Symposium in Massey University
Université Paris-Est, Cité Descartes, École des Ponts et Chaussées, ParisTech.
and AUT, Wellington and Auckand, New Zealand. Social Communicator Journalism BA in
Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), course in screenwriting in EICTV San Antonio de los
Baños (Cuba), and Robert McKee’s Story seminar (Bogota), Diploma in Audiovisual Business
Management at Externado University (Bogota). Winner of the Colombian Culture Ministry film
calls (Bogotá, 1998) in feature film for television, Automatic fund winner to attend the Buenos
During the majority of my early career I worked as a freelance cameraman on film and João Krefer (1987) lives in São Paulo, Brazil. In the last decade he directed several
television dramas, commercials and music videos, and I continue to write narrative experimental short films exhibited in more than 20 countries, receiving prizes at the Hong
screenplays. Prior to August 2009, I was formerly a Sector Manager for Screen Yorkshire, the Kong International Mobile Film Awards, the Naoussa International Film Festival (Greece)
screen agency for Yorkshire and the Humber region of the United Kingdom. Additionally, I have and the Vivo ARTE.MOV Festival (Brazil). He curated the “Multiolhares” experimental film/
taught media and visual communications studies at a number of UK education institutions. video section at the Olhar de Cinema - Curitiba Int’l Film Festival in 2012-2014 and was a jury
member of the Curta Cinema - Rio de Janeiro Int’l Short Film Festival in 2015.
My recent doctoral research adopts a film-philosophical position to investigate filmmaking
using mobile phones, and its participatory, discourse experience in international film festivals
FILMS
Device: iPhone 6S+ / Osmo mobile / GoPro Device: iPhone SE / iPad 4 Device: iPhone 6
What is it like to go for a swim in the Baltic Sea in Helsinki . . . ‘Living in the Daily Flow of News’ (2’09, July 2017) is a short In a New York City subway journey, a sequence plan
in February? Filmed over four days in the harbor of Helsinki, experimental film entirely created on mobile devices. This film examines a social aspect, searching for a reflection about
Finland. this film takes you for a swim at -16C in unfiltered can be interpreted as a response to our ‘brave new world’ which our new era of profound human and technological changes
sea water and also the 27Ç warm pool. Through this charac- is flooded with loads of information. Staring at our smartphones, – and its challenges.
ter portrait you will feel as if you had actually climbed into pads, laptops, TVs or newspapers, we are constantly caught,
the frozen sea yourself. attracted, distracted, affected, engaged, astonished, amused
or frightened by worldwide updated news. And although all of
these informations pretend to be important, the emotional
and psychological patterns behind the scene stay the same.
Actually it is a boring repetition, like a lo`op of hollow phrases.
The film is layouted with retro design elements which evokes the
impression of a déja-vu leading back to the days when the ‘news-
production-machine’ began to tick and the onlooker became
a pale zombie spellbound by the lunatic dance of information.
The film was entirely shot and edited on an iPhone SE & an iPad
4, using diverse apps: Luma Fusion,TouchViz, Musemage, Fused,
Legend, Mega Photo or Bent. The music was created on the app
Garage Band with the help of an UR22mkII interface (Steinberg)
which has allowed me to record my guitar direct to the iPad 4.
Device: iPhone 6 Device: Google Pixel 2 Device: Canon G9X pocket camera
Domestic violence is a vicious circle that the victim does’t ‘What’s with the Nails?’ is a personal, reflective essay film about Part agit-prop, part essay film, Breathing Still creates a
queerness, normality, slowness, and painting fingernails.
know they are trapped in, often until they can’t get out. 1 in compelling portrait of Berlin as the right-wing nationalist
Mobile devices are ideal for personal, reflective storytelling
3 women around the world is a victim of violence, and this party the AfD wins members in Parliament for the first
and filmmaking. The accessibility of these technologies means
violence knows no social boundaries affecting women from that they are more often than not easily within reach, and can time. Weaving together voice-over, stills, archive and
all cultures, countries and socio-economic backgrounds. be utilised at a moment’s notice. Unusual camera angles and found footage, Daniels’ flaneuse, a follower of the Polish
perspectives, while often not in keeping with cinematographic
revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, who was assassinated by
traditions, are prevalent in handheld mobile filmmaking and
while they make for imperfect films, they are also consistent with fascists nearly a century ago, explores Berlin’s streets, and
the personal nature of the films. Devoid of a crew or additional memorials to Luxemburg and the Jews who once lived there.
technologies, these films are proudly made by individuals and
often embrace notions to do with slowness and the flexibility and
subtlety of the Camera-Stylo. Ubiquitous mobile devices are also
ideal for personal storytelling by those who belong to cultural
minorities, as they sit at the nexus of accessibility, ubiquity, and
individuality. Mobile devices are uniquely able to be used to tell
queer stories by a sole author.
The embrace of unusual camera angles, perspectives and
imperfections are a rebuke of cinematic traditions, a celebration
of the art of queer failure, and a potential framework for a
queer conceptual framework for creative practice research
methodologies. In making explicit the exploration of embracing
behaviors and identities that are not considered ‘normal’, this film
acknowledges the power of personal and reflective storytelling to
share queer perspectives on screen.
NEW VOICES
What are the things in our lives that make us who we are? When various liquids and materials are placed above a speaker and a resonating frequency
is amplified, the substance comes ‘alive’ creating interesting and unpredictable waves and
Captured through a visual diary, the film is an exploration of the changes and moments that
patterns. The sounds and frequencies produced by digital synthesizers as well as natural
occur in one’s life. In nature, metamorphosis is the journey of an organism’s change from
analog sounds modulates pitch and tone to stimulate different characters within the viscous
one form to the next. The film takes us through that journey as it captures the growth that
liquid.
we, as humans, experience as we come of age and travel through the path of life. Because
this path consists of a multitude of ups and downs that in turn molds us, the film aims to The concept of the film is to explore the synthesis of two separate senses, sight and sound
capture what it is that allows us to change in form as we move from one stage to the next. and to capture a tangible and abstract film. I have always been fascinated by the way sound
works and how the mind can imagine a visual response to an auditory stimulus.
The film is comprised of montage techniques, such as metric and tonal, that create the sense
of collected memories, while experimentation with speed/duration come to illustrate how The experimental short is a product of experimenting with visualizing sound, specifically
certain memories felt like. Moreover, the use of fragmented audio recordings demonstrate music and how the sonic power of audio can be captured through a visual medium, film.
how sound (or the lack thereof) plays a role in generating the film’s theme of transformation Through experimenting with this process and various different lighting setups, striking and
over time. mesmerizing results occurred. An iPhone X which is splash proof, extremely maneuverable
Much like Jonas Mekas’ diary films, the film creates a portrait of a life by capturing moments and can shoot at 4K resolution makes for a very powerful tool to capture and document
of memory, which evidently illustrate how the details make up the person. These details this concept. The experiments resulted in impressive imagery with extreme close-ups and
are shown through visuals that symbolize the emotions we feel as we grow onto ourselves – foreign visuals making scale and space difficult to grasp for the viewer. Lighting is a very
numbness, excitement, anger, sadness, serenity. important tool to convey the texture and form of the shapes created by the materials. The
materials used includes, milk, water, dish soap, oil, acrylic and water based paints as well
It is all in the whirlwind of our little life.
as food dye. The rhythmic editing of the piece follows the movement and shapes of this
20 MINA SCREENING PROGR AM 2018 fascinating matter.
8th International Mobile Innovation Screening
Device: Samsung Galaxy S5 Device: Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and S7 Device: Smartphone (Android)
In a society where the influence of social media is at its most 'kill the director' is an experimental psychological horror of a An exploration of the wonderful textures of ‘Ice Cream’ - a
potent, an exuberant girl wanders the neon-lit streets of man haunted by his mental health – his director. Appearing at visual delight.
Melbourne in search of the perfect Instagram shot. But has this first as a placid object in his dreamscape, the director grows
obsession trapped her in a nightmare of deceivingly ‘perfect’ increasingly violent, following the man through his childhood
images? street, torturing his mind and tormenting his dreams.
The room is dark and unclear when you first notice yourself in it. It resembles an auditorium, Two filmmakers - one carrying an eye, the other a pen - meet and explore their surroundings through
however the details of the room appear more questionable the closer you examine them. There is their individual cinematic approaches.
a large screen in the front, guarded by two figures who vaguely resemble a human form holding Two different filmmakers, who subscribe to two different cinematic theories, coexist in a public
spears. The content on the screen is familiar. In fact it is the only aspect of this world that is familiar, square. Firstly, the camera as the Kino-Eye, as defined by Dziga Vertov, sees the world and
and this juxtaposition is frightening. They are showing videos of everyday activities. It seems so out observes the potential for filmmaking as a means of reflecting the truth of their surroundings. The
of place. You now start to realise that you are out of place in the crowd as well. You are surrounded eye observes this reality - first the buildings, then the stark contrast between the natural and the
by individuals of the same features as the people beside the screen; all with the same triangular synthetic, and the rush of traffic - then uses abstract editing techniques to fully express the bustle
shaped head. The lack of expression that can be gathered from their featureless faces is another of this location. The process of looking upon this public square through the Kino-eye reveals the
source of fear. When you glance back at the screen, shock fills your entire being. The contents of the thriving nature of the space, and an understanding of suburban life.
screen has changed to a live feed of you sitting inside the auditorium. You cannot pinpoint the exact
Next, the filmmaker inspired by Alexandre Astruc’s proposition of the camera-pen uses the camera
source of this dread, however this whole situation feels very very wrong. You start to feel dizzy and
to express any thought, utilising the freedom and wide potential of cinematic language to address
disoriented by the overstimulation of emotions. You run with all of the power in your body away from
any concern that possesses them, fictional or non-fictional. To observe this space through the
the source of this pain, but as you do, you feel stuck. Your mind and body are in a state of conflict as
camera-pen reveals a similar perspective to that of the Kino-eye - but this one now branches out into
your physical being discontinues to behave in the way you rely on. You continue to drift deeper in to a
visual fantasias, surrealism and lurid colours. The pen captures truth through creating it rather than
state between the physical and the ethereal, until the world as you know it ceases to exist.
reflecting it, embellishing the images seen by the eye with illusory, equally vivid perceptions.
The two filmmakers coexist in this space, observing the same environment through their distinct
lenses, drawing different artistic conclusions that nevertheless complement one another.
Guy Tirolien’s poem evocation: “A Little Negro Boy’s Professor Michaela Lucas and Dr. Raul Ramirez discuss the connections between
Prayer”. Crossing Guadeloupe countrysides following the veganism and the major aspects of everyday life.
narrator
M A X S C H L E S E R
M O D E R A T O R
Eamon Wyss
Hoopy Adrian Jeffs Filmmaker & MINA committee
Ajax McKerral
Hoopy Chloe Samillano Emerging Filmmaker
A N G E L A B L A K E H I L A R Y D AV I S
PANELIST - DIGITAL STORYTELLER PANELIST - DIGITAL STORYTELLER
Angela is a Sydney girl who grew up dancing, singing and acting from the age of four. The last few years Dr Hilary Davis is a social science researcher, with extensive experience working with seniors to
have seen her working as an actor primarliy in television and she has just finished shooting Season 6 of address issues of inclusion, participation and digital literacies. Her current research focuses on digital
Channel 7 and Foxtel’s, A Place To Call Home which airs from mid-August. Prior TV credits include Love participation for diverse and marginalised communities; including socially isolated youth and elders,
Child Season 1, Top of the Lake Season 2 and Deadly Women Season’s 9 & 10. people living with chronic illness or disability, and those housebound or disadvantaged due to place.
She is particularly concerned with how disadvantaged community members might leverage digital
She has worked as a performer on stages all over the world for companies including Princess Cruise
storytelling to engage, support and inform local community service provision. Dr. Davis has published
Lines, M.E.I., The Entertainment Store and many others. She lived in LA from 2010-2012, graduating
over 50 peer-reviewed research publications, and holds a number of competitive grants.
from The New York Film Academy’s Acting for Screen Program. She then went on to shoot countless
shorts and web-series, many touring the festival circuit. She has also worked extensively in theatre and Working with Telstra and the Social Innovation Research Centre at Swinburne University of Technology
her credits include: The Silence Came, Love Game, Surprises, The Odyssey, The Crucible, The Silence the 60+ online program uses co-design methods to develop and evaluate a model for connecting
Came, Popesical-The Musical and the Off-Broadway Production of Sex, Relationships and Sometimes seniors through digital stories and social media engagement with local community news and events.
Love in NY.
As a director, Angela’s first play was Eating Out, which she also co-wrote and produced in LA. Since then
she has won the Wildcards and Audience Favourite Award for the short play Weeing on a Stick at the
2012 Short and Sweet Festival. She worked with writer, Adele Shelley to turn this into a film. In 2015 she
directed her very first Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, for Sydney Classic Theatre Company and she
was also Assistant Director for immersive theatre company, Mongrel Mouth’s The Age of Entitlement
and co-wrote and acted in Like Me, which played in The Rocks mid 2015. As an actor she has also shot
ads for Elgas, Keystart, Queensland Bananas and Verizon Wireless.
M A R T I N K O S Z O L K O M I K E E
MOBILE MUSIC VR CINEMA
Dr Martin K. Koszolko is a Polish-born, Melbourne based sound producer and academic known for his The Virtual Reality Cinema.
creative work under the KOshowKO, Philosophy Of Sound and Iubar Project monikers.
Is a creative project aimed at showcasing the new wave of virtual reality works. Pushing
Martin has extensive experience as a composer, music and video producer and performing musician the boundries of the medium and assisting experienced content creators to create VR
and is the vice-president of Clan Analogue Recordings, the record label arm of Australia’s longest works. By having a VR cinema space to screen, network and showcase folm makers
running electronic music collective. He has produced and contributed to over 30 releases on a number works.
of labels, including Discotexas, Emerald & Doreen and Clan Analogue. His music performances utilise
mobile and interactive technologies and have been seen by international audiences. Info@virtualrealitycinema.com.au
Martin’s academic research explores various aspects of computer sound production, including
mobile music making and interactivity in electronic music performance. His practice-led PhD project
investigated the impact of remote music collaboration software on music production. He has been
teaching sound production and other music industry-related disciplines at Melbourne Polytechnic and
RMIT University.
Blog: www.philosophyofsound.info/blog/
E A M O N W Y S S A J A X M C K E R R A L
HOOPY HOOPY
Eamon Wyss and Ajax McKerral are the cofounders of the new Hoopy App. Eamon has 12 years practicing people-centred Interaction Design - starting with designing & building real-world
art communities, then progressing to web-based user-experience (UX) design. He also advises filmmakers with online audience building, makes experimental short film, and works in the
local short film industry as an AD and an Associate Producer.
Ajax has over 20 years in full-stack Web and App development, running his own IT company for 10 Years. Back in 2004, he setup the London Symphony Orchestra’s digital education
program, and he was once the drummer in a successful local Melbourne Band ‘Three’. He also holds a 4th degree black belt in Aikido.
M A LW I N A W O D Z I C K A R A C H E L C H E N
PANELIST - EDITOR & FILMMAKER PANELIST - EMERGING FILMMAKER
Independent filmmaker Malwina Wodzicka is a native of Poland and has worked in Europe, the U.S. Rachel is interested in developing stories which have an autobiographical element. Stories which relate
and Australia for the past seven years as an editor and teacher. Films she has edited have gained to the Melbourne towns she has lived in, the people she has met and the stories they shared are of
international recognition and were official selections for festivals such as Palm Springs Shortfest, interest to her storytelling style. Rachel has a broad interest in different genres and styles of filmmak-
Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, Kinofilm International Short Film Festival in Manchester, Citizen ing – but has limited experience in genres outside of drama and the narrative style of filmmaking. She is
Jane International Film Festival in Missouri and many others. interested in exploring mixed-genre films and experimental films.
Malwina’s work is always trying to reveal the problematic truth about human nature; telling stories of Rachel has completed several short pieces – with a focus on documentaries and music videos Tumblr
characters struggling with dramatic decisions that can or already have changed their lives. (2014), Progress of Appreciation (2015), Behind the Mics (2015), George Ezra – Barcelona Music video
(2015) and magical realism in narrative Hydrophilic (2016), The Magical Launderette (2018).
SHE ROSE is her directorial debut.
Rachel looks forward to creating content which incorporates elements of surrealism, whilst being
grounded in their exploration of current political, cultural or social issues.
Rachel is currently studying a Bachelor of Film and Television at Swinburne University of Technology
and aspires to become a film or television producer – focusing on developing docudramas, narrative
films and experimental shorts or audio/visual installations for the Australian film and television indus-
try. Rachel also has ambitions to extend her experience internationally.
N I C H O L A S H A N S E N PA T R I C K K E L LY
FILMMAKER PANELIST - FILMMAKER & LECTURER, SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION AT RMIT
Nicholas Hansen is an award-winning documentary director and research graduate from RMIT Dr Kelly lectures in media production, with a focus on documentary practice, interactive media, career
Melbourne in the area of interactive documentary. Previous work includes; Breaking the News (2011), development, social media, and practice-led research. Patrick is a filmmaker, writer and a ademic,
One Cup (2007) and feature documentary RASH (2005) awarded Best Documentary at the Film Critics who completed his PhD in Creative Media at RMIT in 2013. The filmic practice-led project examined
Circle of Australia 2005. Nicholas named and is co-founder of Docuverse (RMIT), a research group the auratic experience of traditional and contemporary media and saw him going offline for a period
exploring expanding documentary practices through an annual symposium and bi-monthly meetings. of 80 days in 2011 – an experience documented in the film Detour Off the Superhig way . Dr Kelly has
Nicholas completed a Master of Design ar=t RMIT in 2018 and is a sessional tutor and some-time supported MINA on numerous occasions as co-curator and committee member of Mobile Innovation
lecturer in Film and TV at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. As well as maintaining Network Australasia (MINA).
a documentary practice Nicholas develops curriculum and teaches screen and media in Melbourne.
www.mutinymedia.com
A D R I A N J E F F S C H L O E S A M I L L A N O
PANELIST - FILMMAKER & MINA COMMITTEE PANELIST - EMERGING FILMMAKER
Adrian is an award winning mobile filmmaker and designer from the Yarra Valley in Victoria. With a Chloe Samillano is a screenwriter and filmmaker. Though born in the Philippines, she immigrated to
passion for telling real stories about real people. With a love for technology, it was only natural that the United States at age five and grew up in Moreno Valley, California. She then moved to San Francisco
his camera of choice would be a smartphone. The intamacy and familiarity of an iPhone defuses any to attend SF State, where she is pursuing a BFA in Cinema. She is currently on exchange and attending
discomfort the subject may feel and its small form factor makes it easy to get into areas that traditional Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. In her artistic work, Chloe tends to focus
cameras could only dream of. on realism and slice-of-life narratives, many of which are taken from her own life experiences. As an
artist, she hopes to create works that increase representation in the media, especially that of the
Mobile filmmaking has allowed Adrian to follow his dreams and join amazing communities like MINA
Asian-American and LGBTQ community. Though experienced in short-form narrative and documentary
and FILMBREAKER to help the next wave of smartphone filmmakers reach their goals.
filmmaking, this is her first experimental short.
Clan Analogue is Australia’s longest running electronic music collective that was started in Sydney in 1992. Its members traverse boundaries
between sound, visual and written work as the collective explores both traditional and new media forms.
In 2018, Clan Analogue Recordings—the independent record label arm of Clan Analogue—has sought submissions to a new compilation album
which celebrates music creation with mobile tools. This music release is a reflection of the contemporary music production landscape that
includes high-performance, portable music hardware which comes in a variety of forms. These devices allow music producers to redefine their
creative practice and explore new methods of musical expression.
Clan’s mobile music album has been produced by Martin K. Koszolko, who has been utilising mobile music making tools in his creative practice
and academic research over the last 6 years. The compilation showcases key trends in contemporary mobile music through a selection of
tracks from international artists. Slated for a worldwide release in the near future, the album will have its first public preview at the MINA’s
‘Smart Storytelling Day’ symposium and showcase.
www.iphoneff.com
www.twitter.com/iPhone_FilmFest
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ALI CREW ANGELA BLAKE MELISSA BRATTONI RACHAEL MILLANTA
SF3 FOUNDER SF3 FOUNDER SF3 GRAPHIC DESIGNER SF3 iNTERN
SF3 - the SmartFone Flick Fest is Australia’s only international smartphone film
festival.
Thirteen films will be selected from all the entries to screen at our Gala Finals Event
at the Sydney Opera House, Australia on October 1, 2018. The night starts with a
VIP Meet and Greet Event which is a chance for all SF3 2018 filmmakers, creatives,
actors, sponsors and judges to mingle with industry professionals and each other.
The SF3 Films and other Award Winning films will then be screened on the beautiful
big screen of the iconic and historic Chauvel Cinema and a panel of esteemed
judges will award the SF3 Prizes to category winners, including the top prizes of
SF3 2018 Best Film and SF3 2018 People’s Choice Award. Although awarded on the
night, the People’s Choice Award is open for online voting for two days prior to the
Thirteen films will be selected
Gala Finals Event.
from all the entries to screen
at our Gala Finals Event at
the Sydney Opera House,
Australia on October 1, 2018.
www.sf3.com.au
www.twitter.com/SF3Fest
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S. Botello Productions™ is one of the pioneer mobile film festivals and perhaps the first in the world to be exclusive to only to films shot with mobile phones which
screens films on a big screen and rolls out the red carpet in a venue in San Diego, California. Our film festival has only accepted films shot with only mobile phones and
began to form in 2009 launching an opportunity to every human being of any age in the world to share stories through film because everyone in the world has access to a
mobile phone camera. International Mobil Film Festival™ takes place annually in San Diego every last weekend of April. #MFF2017SanDiego received over 260 submissions
and screened over 40 films including a mobile feature film. Filmmakers who attended in San Diego came from Canada, Australia, Chile and Germany. The ages of the
filmmakers ranged from 11 years-old to 82 years-old. This year, we have two separate competitions for short mobile films (1-5min.) and feature mobile films (40-80min.).
SBP launched the Global Mobile Film Awards™ as the Oscars of the mobile film industry. Our two founding members are SF3 SmartFone Flick
Fest from Australia and Heartland Film Festival from Indiana. GMFA is for all film festivals who would like to provide filmmakers who submit
a film shot with mobile phones and win an official award a free nomination to GMFA and compete to be the best of the best mobile film
under separate categories. Member festivals reserve their right to nominate or not nominate winning films. Individual mobile filmmakers
may submit a film shot with a phone to be considered for a nomination which won an official award in a non-member film festival for a fee.
www.internationalmobilefilmfestival.com
www.globalmobilefilmawards.com
Smart phones are constantly evolving, improving the image quality (currently up to
4k) and thus, with these new optics, it’s now possible record backdrops and scenes
that were unthinkable until now.
The evolution of quality allows us to predict a long life for this festival,
demonstrated by the increase in short films presented year after year.
www.cinephone.es
www.twitter.com/cinephone_info
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Super 9 Mobile Film Fest, is an international festival exclusively dedicated to
movies recorded on mobile phones with open competition to all countries, based
on Portugal.
Films from 1 to 15 minutes of different genres: All films that get published are nominated to the
Awards. The awarded films are selected by our Jury,
- Fiction
but the Audience Award is won by the film with most
- Documentary public votes.
- Animation
- Experimental
- Music videos
Super 9 is a year-round online mobile film festival, the competition takes place
over nine months (from April to December) on the platform: www.super9mobile.
com
All films that get published are nominated to the Awards. The awarded films are
selected by our Jury, but the Audience Award is won by the film with most public
votes.
www.super9mobile.com
www.youtube.com/user/super9mobile
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MoMo provides a level playing field for
filmmakers where talent, creativity and "One of the most
hard work counts more than budget and interesting and
industry connections. exciting events from
around the world." ~
Believing that anybody with a thought- BBC World News
provoking concept or a touching story
can make a great film, the festival will
showcase new talent using a tool so
simple and readily available that it’s often
overlooked: the mobile phone.
The event will be followed by an after show party which will be held in one of the coolest
venues in Zurich.
momofilmfest.com
www.twitter.com/momofilmfest/
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www.filmicpro.com
www.twitter.com/filmicpro
Whether you’re masterminding the next smart phone feature length film, creating a three
mi-nute music video or producing a thirty second news story, Luma Touch is the mobile editor
that will help you cultivate and finesse your finished piece.
Luma Touch is an innovative company dedicated to creating truly professional video editing,
effects and media management products for iOS and macOS, including LumaFusion, LumaFX
and LumaConnect.
LumaFusion
Over the last year LumaFusion, has captured the hearts (and fingertips) of mobile journalism
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professionals as the “go-to product” for video editing, titling, audio mixing and finishing of high editor used by mobile journalists, filmmakers
and professional video producers to tell
quality news segments while in the field.
compelling video stories.
As the first truly professional video and effects editor for mobile, LumaFusion has also been
acclaimed by independent and experimental filmmakers, music video artists and corporate
producers as a trusted and easily-affordable solution for creative video editing and effects,
rivaling the features and exceeding the usability of more expensive desktop editors. LumaFX
Infinite video effects. Layer multiple controllable
Coming soon! - LumaConnect bridges the gap between desktop and mobile editing by providing effects on your videos, plus re-frame, rotate,
position, speed, reverse and much more.
direct import of all media types to LumaFusion and export of LumaFusion projects to desk-top
editors.
www.luma-touch.com
www.twitter.com/LumaTouch
filmmaking and live streaming equipment. In 2013, with only an idea, 3D printer and the amazing
support of Kickstarter they were able to introduce the world’s first universal smartphone lens adapter/
rig system with a completely new and unique approach in design and functionality, which has since
been awarded with a number of patents. Since then, they’ve raised over 425K on Kickstarter, released
a handful of other innovative products and continue to be a part of some of the most groundbreaking
videos ever shot with a smartphone, such as Bentley’s “Intelligent Details” docu-series, Michel Gondry’s
Détour, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero’s “No Love Like Yours” and many more.
www.beastgrip.com
ufacturer Kenko Tokina Co., Ltd. to meet
the demand of high resolution smart-
www.youtube.com/user/beastgripTV
phone cameras with 4K video capabilities
and to deliver an uncompromising image
quality.
No other product offers a kind of flexibility for Mobile Film Makers like the BlackWing.
Check it out on our website: www.fotosafariproducts.com
FotoSafari Products donates 100% of their profit to support Mobile Film Festivals around the world, and to
www.fotosafariproducts.com talented Film Makers who use their Mobile Phones.
www.twitter.com/FotoSafariGear (BTW, we, as a film crew, use all of our products every single day.)
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46 MINA SCREENING PROGR AM 2018 www.youtube.com/user/AdobeCreativeCloud
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to apply it to social problems. We can bring together researchers in IT, in
engineering, in chemistry and microbiology and apply this expertise to looking at
social problems together with social science research. It's really a unique kind of
perspective"
We collect and catalogue film reels, video tapes, sound records, props and documents and store them in climate controlled vaults. Our experts work against time to preserve original nitrate film, television broadcast
tapes and sound recordings, before they degrade. We digitally preserve audiovisual material to ensure that it stands the test of time for future generations. We facilitate access to the collection for researchers, the
media industry, the museum sector and anyone who wants to discover the audiovisual stories of the past. We manage rights and clearance processes so that images and sound from the archive can be re-used and
shared wherever possible. You can visit our library facilities in Wellington – the Media Library and the Jonathan Dennis Library You can attend our public programme of screenings and festivals at our Wellington
cinema and café, and around the country. We host events and tours, and hold education sessions for school and community groups.
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Over 100 years ago Swinburne began with a simple premise: to provide technical education to a sector of society otherwise denied further education. For over a century Swinburne has committed to innovative
education, strong industry engagement and social inclusion.
The journey
The vibrant, multicultural and student-focused university you know today boasts over 50,000 students from all walks of life. In 1909, however, the first class enrolled merely 80 young men. Swinburne offered training
and education in plumbing and mechanics. We offered classes with the very first computers. Since the digital revolution Swinburne has been providing cutting-edge education. Our media programs and bio-research
are just two examples. We continue to focus on emerging technologies, industry engagement and flexible learning options. We ensure we adapt and evolve with the times. We deliver relevant education for our
students today, and tomorrow.