Mumbai: If your reasons for not making an award winning movie is inadequate budget or equipment, well no excuses any more because all you need to do now is pick up your cell phone to make movies.
And so, it was a rewarding time for short filmmakers who shot and edited on Nokia’s flagship multimedia phone range.
One wasn’t expected to make a three-hour blockbuster but a three-minute long diversion.
Solitude Dreams, a film about a man who has hallucinations about someone trying to kill him in his office bagged a flashy cell phone and a six-month training in filmmaking at director Subhash Ghai’s film institute Whistling Woods.
Filmmaker Ranjan Shetty won in the fiction category even as the movie struggled with poor screen resolutions.
“The shooting took me five hours but it took me two days to edit the film,” Shetty said.
While in the non-fiction category Ek Kavita won the award. The movie depicts the hands of people from various strata of society such as cobblers, a rickshaw pullers, a mother cooking food and a student doing homework.
Ek Kavita’s maker also had a possible solution to the tiny screen dilemma of keeping the frames still by cutting down on motion.
“If there isn’t much movement then the movie won’t pixilate,” winner of the non-fiction category, Sachin Shrestha explained.
With participants ranging from student filmmakers to telecom engineers, the event proved that almost anyone can put together a mobile film. So, are the big boys of the box office threatened?
“Big screen movies will still be watched in theatres. When television was invented, we thought it would be the death of theatres, but it is not so. So, this is just a new medium of filmmaking,” director Subhash Ghai said.
So, maybe the mobile flick will just be another outlet for cinematic expression and not the future of movies. But one thing is for sure though – at these screenings no one is going to ask you to put your pesky phone off.
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