POCKET FILM FESTIVAL
The 4th edition of the Pocket Films Festival, organized by the Forum des images, will take place at the Pompidou Center, Paris, France, on June, 13-14-15th 2008.
Three main festival sections are open this year : INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR PROJECTS Looking for all types of audiovisual participatory projects using mobile technologies, to be presented in Paris during the festival. 2 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE SECTIONS : CINEMA SCREEN and MOBILE SCREEN Main Jury Prize for each section : 1,500 euros Participate to the international competition « Cinema Screen », open to all films shot with mobile phones and / or digital cameras. Pocket Films also launches this year a section open to all video contents developed for portable screens, “Mobile Screen”. The Pocket Films Festival, festival of mobile video creation, organized since 2005 by the Forum des images, a major cinema center and film archive created by the City of Paris and dedicated to explore the relations between cinema, cities and society, with a strong emphasis on educational perspectives.
Since 2005, Pocket Films has gained international recognition for its exploration of the artistic possibilities of the mobile telephone as pocket camera, as well as the place this tool occupies in our everyday lives from social and aesthetic perspectives.