Cell Phone Movies to Show @ SF International Film Festival
April 28, 2006 11:11 PM | Cell Phone TV | Comments (1)
| This week at the San Francisco International Film Festival, 20 movies made for mobile devices with 2-inch-by-3-inch screens will be shown as part of the festival's Pocket Cinema program. Two of the movies are as follows: 1 - Spookspeak, by Katherin McInnis a four-minute film parodying the National Security Agency's Echelon electronic eavesdropping program. Her movie blends text and audio of about 300 watchwords that, when used in e-mails or cell-phone conversations, allegedly trigger further scrutiny by the NSA's spy systems. 2 - Suprematist Kapital by San Francisco filmmakers James T. Hong and Yin-Ju Chen, which tells a five-minute history of Western capitalism. The Pocket Cinema program highlights the art world's contribution to mobile video, which the entertainment industry hopes will be the next big content boom. Fox, for example, is releasing mobisodes of the TV show Prison Break, while Touchstone Television Productions is producing a version of Lost just for mobiles. |
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Already, some 2 million Americans watch video once a month on their mobile devices, according to MMetrics. This is likely to increase as network operators like Verizon Communications offer more programming. The company recently cut a content deal with internet video provider Atom Entertainment to offer its content to subscribers.
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Posted by: Patb | April 30, 2006 11:23 AM
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