Portable Film Festival

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Portable Film Festival
Location Melbourne, Australia
Number of films 150
Language International
Official website

The Portable Film Festival is an annual international online film festival presenting the best in short film and internet video culture. Festival goers can log onto the website and download the program for free to their portable device, be it a video iPod, Sony PSP, laptop computer or video-enabled mobile phone. The Portable Film Festival aims to encourage filmmakers to use online as an alternative form of distribution outside of the cinema and terrestrial television, and promotes free flow of content from digital to analogue spaces to offline. As a cultural movement, the festival represents the growing democratization of filmmaking and viewing processes across the world.

Everything in the festival program is curated, free and portable, featuring a wide range of works from aspiring filmmakers all over the world. In 2007 the festival received up to 670 entries from 42 countries out of which 200 films were showcased.

The call for submissions for the 2008 Portable Film Festival is open from March 3, 2008 to June 30, 2008. To accommodate and reflect changing trends in filmmaking and viewing, the festival divides its content into seven categories. They are: short film, music video, online serials and blogs, mobile captures, animation, and feature film.

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[edit] History

In 2006, Melburnians Andrew Apostola, 27, and Simon Goodrich, 25, founded the Portable Film Festival to explore the art of portable filmmaking and viewing. Apostola and Goodrich were already at the time directors of Portable Content, a company producing portable content for businesses and schools.[1] Based in Melbourne, Australia, the first festival was launched on the internet in September, 2006.

The first of several cinematic themes commissioned by the festival was called Six Cities and featured short films from Tokyo, New York, Montreal, London, Melbourne and Vancouver reflecting their perspective of their city.

2006 Hungarian finalists Geza M Geza and Eva M Toth's entry, "Maestro", continued to garner a nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 79th Academy Awards.

The second festival commenced on August 1, 2007. The 2007 festival included 150 international entries in five categories. These included short film, documentary, music video, animation and travel videos.

2007 Portable Film Festival finalist Samuel Tourneux's entry, "Même les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)", may receive an Oscar as it has received a nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 2008 Academy Awards.

The call for entries for the 2008 festival opens on March 3, 2008.

[edit] Festival winners

Each year the Portable Film Festival awards accolades to the very best films of the festival. Named the Hoppers, awards are handed out in several categories. The Grand Hopper is the prestigious award for best short film.

[edit] 2007 winners

Award Title Director
Look At Me Lo Fi St. Louis Bill Streeter (USA)
Music Video Young Girls Hearts Wess Von Hooton (Australia)
Media Achiever Amnesty International UK
First Hand Capture India Railway Tour Sherwin Akbarzadeh (Australia)
1985 Award T.O.M. Tom Brown (UK)
Grand Hopper The Trainee Craig Rosenthal (Singapore)

[edit] References

  1. ^ You've got the whole film festival in your hand - Technology - smh.com.au

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