<videovortex> Call for entries, Festival Pocket Films Paris, France

[yves.gaillard]

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I would be pleased to answer any questions regarding this call for films.

With kind regards,

Yves Gaillard

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Yves Gaillard
programmateur / program manager
Festival Pocket Films
+33 1 44 76 63 77

www.festivalpocketfilms.fr
www.forumdesimages.fr


        The 5th edition of Pocket Films Festival : call for entries


      A camera in the pocket

It’s been 5 years that cell phones in France have been equipped with a 
camera and a screen. In 2005 The Forum des images created the Pocket 
Films Festival, in partnership with SFR, to explore the potential of 
this new communications tool as an innovative means of artistic 
expression now available to the general public.

The 5th edition of the Pocket Films Festival is organised by the Forum 
des images on June 12, 13, 14, 2009, in collaboration with SFR it’s 
founding partner.

Recognized today throughout the world for it’s pioneering effort and 
expertise in the exploration of audiovisual creation with mobile 
technologies, the Forum des images opens its call for entries to all 
creators for the 5th edition of the Pocket Films Festival. Film 
directors, photographers, artistes, performers and amateurs of new 
technologies are invited to send their films, made with a video cell 
phone. The deadline for all entries is March 2nd 2009.

Short or feature films, all types are accepted : fiction, documentary, 
experimental, clips, portraits...

Fill out and sign the entry form as well as the rules of the Festival 
below and send them with your film before March 2, 2009 at : Forum des 
images Pocket Films Festival 2 rue du Cinéma 75045 Paris Cedex 01 France

Please visit : 
http://www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=91
to download the documents.

Films submitted to the selection committee must be made with a pocket 
camera (video cell phone, digital camera...). The selected films may be 
shown either on a movie-theater size or pocket-sized screen during the 
festival. The selection committee is solely responsible for the choice 
of the screen size for each of the films chosen to participate in the 
festival.

The 5th edition of the Pocket Films Festival is organised by the Forum 
des images on June 12, 13, 14, 2009, in collaboration with SFR it’s 
founding partner.

www.festivalpocketfilms.fr