SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking

We talk about storytelling a lot as part of this podcast when we talk about filmmaking. Our guest explains how experimental filmmaking with smartphones, taking advantage of the visual challenges of pixels fits into the storytelling discussion. Max Schleser has been working in the mobile filmmaking space as a filmmaker since 2006. Let’s take a trip through the history of smartphone filmmaking from...

Imagine that you have made over one hundred films in your lifetime, because who keeps count over a hundred, and you are now working on your third film shot with your iPhone. Meet Mickey Harrison: 83 years and still making movies! Episode 40 of the SBP Podcast: The Voice of Mobile Film™ introduces you to a filmmaker who has spent over 32 years making films. Her film crews came on set with all the b...

When storytellers come together they inspire each other. It happened the evening of Wednesday, September 19, 2018 in San Diego. Hashtag MobilizeStories was presented by the International Mobile Film Festival to inspire people to use the camera on their smartphones to share stories. The event was aimed at filmmakers, bloggers, small business owners, solopreneurs and others who were interested in cr...

We begin Episode 38 of the SBP Podcast by updating our listeners and followers with how to submit mobile films to the International Mobile Film Festival and how we spent the summer, including our Mobile Filmmaking Panel at San Diego Comic-Con International and a few more news updates. But just a few minutes after that we introduce Senior Marketing Manager of FilmConvert, John Parker. FilmConvert h...

It’s been a while now since Instagram launched IGTV but it’s been quite sometime before people began to use their smartphones to record themselves to share it on social media. Our guest on the SBP Podcast is Amani Channel who has been creating tutorials to help people how to get in front of a camera and represent their brand. What if the brand is you? It’s called Self Branding and everyone needs t...

Are you an artist? Musician? Actor? Are you thinking about making films with a smartphone but don’t have an iPhone? Our guest this week is all those things and a mobile filmmaker who shoots using Android phones and uses Android apps. Story is king when it comes to filmmaking, so, are you ready to be inspired to make films with whatever phone you have? Anthony De La Cruz, from San Diego, is our gue...

Why would anyone want to sponsor a film festival where only films shot with smartphones qualify? We asked our sponsors from #MFF2018SanDiego to explain why they sponsored us and have chosen to sponsor it again next year. The International Mobile Film Festival is San Diego’s smartphone film festival and has brought many mobile filmmakers from abroad to our beautiful city. Neal and Jana Hallford are...

One day you are an actor meeting with your agent and auditioning to be cast in a film and the next day, well, maybe you are the director hiring actors including yourself. That’s the reality and opportunity brought to you by the mobile film industry. Narelle Nash won Third Place at the International Mobile Film Festival and her film, The Actor received a nomination for Best Comedy by the Global Mob...

I Don’t Know was the title of their mobile film which screened during the International Mobile Film Festival 2018. Mother and son from San Diego share their story in the Community Stories category during #MFF2018SanDiego about life caring for her Mom who has Alzheimers in episode 33 of the SBP Podcast. Anthony is an indie filmmaker and has been making films since he was a kid. Pamela attended our...

He made his first mobile film with an iPhone 4s and won an award which inspired him to start his own film festival, teach mobile filmmaking and write a book. Episode 32 of the SBP Podcast: The voice of mobile film™ discusses the work of Maxim Mussel in Russia. Max won third place in IMFF 2014 with his film, Lisbon Live. Today, he is an expert with the growing movement in mobile filmmaking. Meet Ma...

Our guest in episode 31 of the SBP Podcast: The Voice of Mobile Film™ has thirty years experience in film, television and video and just graduated from High School. Seth Dacio is one of the filmmakers who shot a mobile film with his smartphone. His film made it to the International Mobile Film Festival 2018. He lives in San Diego. Seth attended the entire weekend #MFF2018SanDiego film festival. He...

A new film shot with OnePlus 5 in 4K is Cristina Isoli’s directorial debut with Avant-Garde Pictures. The production quality, the story and characters, acting, audio, composition and set design; these are some of the virtues of this mobile film which make it one of the best films we have seen this year. The film is called Lightning and tells the story of a an unexpected relationship between an und...

A long time ago in a galaxy far away…actually—on earth, some filmmakers were experimenting with films which have been archived and preserved to ensure we can watch them 70 years later. Experimental films are not what you expect to see when you go to your local theater. They are not the typical Hollywood film. Then again, a lot of mobile films are also experimental in nature. Perhaps it’s because t...

If you are a writer and a storyteller then you may really enjoy listening to Brian Hennings. Brian comes to you as a storyteller and writer. Like most writers, sharing your stories is an important aspect of being a writer. Brian realized he could make films with his Samsung smartphone and submitted his first mobile film to the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego for #MFF2017SanDiego. H...

Chuck Copeland was a participant in #MFF2018SanDiego and enjoyed his first film festival experience with his short iPhone film The Workweek. He has experienced the film industry and even worked for a film festival but he never experienced a film festival as a filmmaker. During the red carpet walk, filmmakers who attended the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego were escorted by Star War...

The two-day event in San Diego, celebrated mobile filmmaking around the world. Several filmmakers came out to be a part of it in person and we are extremely grateful to them for doing so. Not all filmmakers are able to make the trip and attend so this year, since we host the SBP Podcast to give a voice to the mobile film community, we decided to host this Roundtable discussion about the festival f...

The seventh edition of the annual International Mobile Film Festival takes place April 28 & 29 in San Diego. This year, we celebrate making movies with smartphones all over the world with a number of filmmakers who attend the festival. Films shot with only mobile phones will screen during the festival and the filmmakers look forward to sharing the stories with attendees and fellow filmmakers. Some...

Our guest for Episode 24 of the SBP Podcast is Dimple Devadas in London. Her film, Silence in London will screen during the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego #MFF2018. Shot with an iPhone, the film shares an interesting message in a natural setting with a poetic song. Cassius Rayner made the movie with her. She and Cassius met in a mobile filmmaking class he taught in London and they...

We needed to share the opportunities available to anyone who is working on their brand using video because we don’t want you to feel left out or like you need to put video out there to promote yourself when you are not comfortable with it. You may be a solopreneur, a small business owner or you may be a professional working on personal branding or your image. We interviewed Francesca Jago, founder...

Our brand ambassador, Aaron Nabus and myself discuss the upcoming International Mobile Film Festival taking place April 28 and 29 in San Diego. The festival is exclusively focused on all things mobile film. The theme this year is a celebration of making movies and videos with smartphones globally. We share the logistics of the festival, the location, the dates, the times and what attendees can exp...

Ten years. Perhaps you just found out recently that people are making movies with mobile phones. It may come as a shock that it’s been going on for over ten years. But we recently met someone who has been making films using cell phones and more recently with smartphones since 2008. Meet Jason van Genderen in Australia. A pioneer filmmaker in the mobile filmmaking industry. About two days after Jas...

It’s one thing to make films as an art of self-expression and then there is the art of making films as a profession for clients. As the popularity of smartphone video spreads into the business industry, more people are becoming aware of the benefits of quality versus cost when hiring videographers and producers using smartphone cameras as opposed to big expensive cameras. Cassius Rayner is in Lond...

Shola Ajayi is from New York and she worked with youth organizations in New York teaching people how to tell stories. That work inspired Shola to be the person she is today and her work with the UR4Africa organization. Shola’s father worked in Lagos in Nigeria and growing up she would visit him there during summer vacations. After college she moved back there for a year and she struggled at first...

Prakash Gandhi has a story to share about how he was motivated to become an innovative smartphone videographer and build his business around it. On this episode of the SBP Podcast, he shares how he decided to go from being a dancer to becoming a videographer using mobile cameras, none of which were DSLRs. Prakash made a promotional video sharing the story of a business using an iPhone and submitte...

Meet a father and daughter who are making films using their smartphones. Miranda Mullings was 11-years-old last year, and her father, Anthony De La Cruz is an actor. In 2016, he made a film that he submitted into the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego. So when he decided to make a new film for our film festival last year, his daughter decided that she wanted to make a film using her s...