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<div>Submissions for the 10th International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival<br/>
are now open at <a href="https://mina.pro/submit/" target="_blank">https://mina.pro/submit/</a> & <a href="https://filmfreeway.com/mina" target="_blank">https://filmfreeway.com/mina</a></div>
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<div>The Mobile Innovation Network and Association, MINA, will present a public screening of smartphone, mobile and pocket films at IMSC, International Mobile Storytelling Congress, at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (13-15 November 2021) and in Australia and New Zealand via Urban Screen TV.</div>
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<div>MINA is the longest running film festival dedicated to celebrating mobile and smartphone film-making in the Southern Hemisphere. MINA creates connections between filmmakers, communities and the creative industries.</div>
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<div>The #MINA2021 International Mobile Innovation Screening will showcase short films (8 min maximum duration) produced on and with smartphones, mobile and pocket cameras. In the last 10 years MINA featured new developments in storytelling, non-narrative forms and explorations, documentary, experimental and abstract mobile and smartphone filmmaking. In 2017 MINA successfully introduced drone cinematography and in 2018 Cinematic VR productions as part of the International Mobile Innovation Screening program. Mobile XR and drone projects can include project showcase and documentation videos (maximum duration 4min).</div>
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<div>Submission categories for MINA X:<br/>
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- Mobile, Smartphone and Pocket Film: – an open call for mobile, smartphone and pocket film<br/>
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- New Voices: Next Generation smartphone filmmakers – a special category for young and emerging smartphone filmmakers (including students).<br/>
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- Mobile Cinematic VR & 360° Video Production: The Future is Now – a category for Cinematic VR and 360° Video Production.<br/>
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- Mobile AR, Mobile XR, MoJo, drone videos, Mobile Storytelling, Mobile Social Media, micro-movies & micro-formats – the category including but not limited to mobile XR, live streaming, mobile social media apps, drones and other pocket cameras (such as GoPro) & mobile devices.<br/>
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– #EcoSmartphoneFilms – a new category for stories about all kinds of environmental issues in the form of eco-centered short fiction and non-fiction videos, all shot on mobile.<br/>
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– Containing COVID-19 – A special themed category for personal stories about the COVID-19 pandemic and the global efforts to contain the virus as they have been widely documented by digital storytellers, mobile and smartphone filmmakers around the world.</div>
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Submission Deadline: 1st December 2020</div>
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Review & Judging panel:<br/>
Associate Professor Dr. Gerda Cammaer, Ryerson University, Canada<br/>
Associate Professor Dr. Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark<br/>
David Cowlard, Whitecliffe College, New Zealand<br/>
Felipe Cardona, Independent Smartphone Filmmaker, Columbia<br/>
Dr. Kerreen Ely-Harper, Curtin University, Australia<br/>
Vanessa Fox, Independent Mobile Artist, France<br/>
Associate Professor Dr. Bernhard Gross, UWE Bristol, England<br/>
Adrian Jeffs, Independent Smartphone Filmmaker, Australia<br/>
Anandana Kapur, Director Cinemad, India<br/>
Dr. Patrick Kelly, RMIT University, Australia<br/>
Benoît Labourdette, filmmaker, educator & consultant, France<br/>
Robb Montgomery, Director Smart Film School, Germany<br/>
Michael Osheku, African International Smartphone Film Festival, Ghana<br/>
Ulrike Rosenfeld, Cultural Officer Goethe Institute, New Zealand & Germany<br/>
Dr. Miriam Ross, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<br/>
Associate Professor Dr. Xiaoge Xu, Institute for Mobile Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China</div>
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<div>Convenor:<br/>
Dr. Max Schleser, Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</div>
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Contact: Max@mina.pro</div>
<div><a href="http://www.mina.pro" target="_blank">www.mina.pro</a> | @MINAmobile | Like us <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MobileInnovationNetwork" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/MobileInnovationNetwork</a></div>
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<div>International Mobile Storytelling Congress and Institute for Mobile Studies:<br/>
<a href="https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/internationalcommunications/institute-for-mobile-studies/our-services.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/internationalcommunications/institute-for-mobile-studies/our-services.aspx</a></div>
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