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11th Annual International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego, California
We're hosting international and local filmmakers from the mobile filmmaking community to celebrate storytelling through film using smartphone cameras. IMFF 2022 is our first in-person festival since 2019. Each year, our festival takes place during the last weekend of April. 2020 & 2021 took place online.
Join us and the mobile filmmaking community to celebrate sharing stories as films using smartphones. Watch films you won't believe were shot with a phone like yours. Meet professional filmmakers and novice filmmakers in this festive three-day event where you'll watch films, participate in Q&A Panels and Sessions, learn how to make your own films during a mobile filmmaking workshop, participate in our exciting Red Carpet Extravaganza show, win a prize in our raffles and more!
Full program and schedule now available!
Come for the fun. Leave inspired.
FEATURE FILM SCHEDULE
On this space we are featuring the six feature length films that will screen during IMFF in San Diego. Meet professional filmmakers Caroline Spence and James Smith with actors Robert Roworth and Kelly Calabrese James and Caroline are flying into San Diego from the United Kingdom to present their feature film, Surveilled and will attend the festival all three days.
The festival will also screen short films!
FESTIVAL DATES AND TIMES
FRIDAY, DAY ONE: APRIL 29 - 11:00AM to 8:00PM | SATURDAY, DAY TWO: APRIL 30 - 10:00AM to 7:30PM | SUNDAY, LAST DAY: MAY 1 - 11:00AM to 9:00PM
Feature Film Judges: Jennifer Zhang | Errol Trotman Harewood | Randy Davison | Steven Palmer Peterson
Surveilled
James Smith and Caroline Spence - ATTENDING IN PERSON
FRIDAY 12:30 PM
RUNNER UP AWARDED FILM
Samsung S9+
Inspired by popular crime novels depicting a violent serial killer, a copycat murderer emerges to terrorize the town of Clairmont.
Mystery, Horror, Spy | 1 hour 46 minutes 11 seconds
United Kingdom
Credits: James Smith, Director
Caroline Spence, Writer
Caroline Spence, Producer
Key Cast: Johnny Kinch "Frank" | Robert Roworth "William Marshall" | Melanie Aumann "Dr Laura Carlyon"
I Feel I Have Lost Something
Sigfrido Giammona
FRIDAY 3:30 PM
iPhone12 Pro Max
The evolution of humanity has come to the point of making the entire population immortal, to put an end to the suffering caused by death, disease, and wars. Michele, tired of the monotony of his own existence, enters a mysterious house, one of the last places where, whoever wishes, can still exercise the right to die. Looking around upon arrival, Michele realizes the house is nothing more than a pleasant place, suspended between reality and dream, where the memories gradually erased by eternity come to life.
Drama | 1 hour 15 minutes 15 seconds
Italy
Credits: Sigfrido Giammona, Director, Producer, Editor
Writer: Fabio Appetito, Mariano Macale
Director of Photography: Massimo Amaro
Audio Engineer & Mixing: Marco Trapani
Composer: Emanuele Buonocunto | Original Music Composer: Sigfrido aka Regro F Giammona
Producers: Cinzia Scardilli, Igor Petrotto, Fabio Appetito
Key Cast: Igor Petrotto "Michele" | Roberta Azzarone "Dafne" | Alessandro Marverti "Attilio" | Eletta Del Castillo "Isadora" | Lorenzo Parrotto "Mr. Smith"
Misplaced -
James Demitri
FRIDAY 6:30 PM
iPhone 11
A man consumed by grief, loses his ability to speak after the death of his mother. As his life begins to fall apart, and he detaches from the world around him, he seeks the help of an unconventional doctor. The results are dreamlike, reflective and often beautiful as he tries to come to terms with his loss and find his voice.
Poetic | 1 hour 25 minutes 48 seconds
Australia
Credits: James Demitri, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Key Cast: Matt Levett "Him" | Kate Box "Doctor"
Beyond
Oleg Loparev
SATURDAY 11:00 AM
iPhone 11 Pro
In real world we didn’t get used to question the reality of all that’s happening. That’s why even the most fantastic events look as reality to us in our dreams. Sometimes when we sleep we get ahold of our mind control and we start to understand what to do next. Unconscious dream turns into lucid dreaming.
SciFi, Drama | 1 hour 12 minutes 36 seconds
California, USA
Credits: Oleg Loparev, Director, Writer
Key Cast: Nataliia Lopareva "Alissa" | Alexandru Achindinov "Bruce" | Nick Palma "Father" | Sofiia Lopareva "Alissa as a child # 1" | Liza Sitnikova "Alissa as a child # 2"
One Punch
Darcy Yuille
SATURDAY 6:00 PM
BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD
iPhone 8 plus and iPhone X
ONE PUNCH is a gritty, teen drama about Matt Mercado, a young Italian Australian man on the cusp of adulthood, struggling in his final year at high school and trying to hold on to the friendships and innocence of his youth.
Drama, Young Adult | 1 hour 14 minutes 6 seconds
Australia
Credits: Darcy Yuille, Director, Writer
Producers: Margaret Tillson, Sher Li Tan
Key Cast: Alex Arco "Matteo Mercado" | Mirko Grillini "Carlo Mercado" | Jessica Osrin "Teresa Scasi" | Sergej Arcaba "Antonio Mercado" | Jacob Ehlefeldt "Isaac Lee"| Stavros Psoras "Eledio Scasi " | Amanda Grillini "Tania Mercado"
The Woman Who Robbed the Stagecoach
Travis Mills
Sunday 12:00 PM
iPhone 11 Pro Max
One of 12 Westerns made in 12 months during 2020, this film tells the true story of Pearl Hart, played by Lorraine Etchell, a woman who goes through a series of bad relationships with men, eventually turning to a life of crime with a European drifter named Joe Boot (Travis Mills). Together they decide to rob a stagecoach, leading Pearl to be one of the most famous female outlaws of all time.
Western, True Story, Historical | 1 hour 22 minutes 29 seconds
Arizona, USA
Credits: Travis Mills, Director, Writer, Producer
Key Cast: Lorraine Etchell "Pearl Hart" | Travis Mills "Joe Boot"
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11th Edition International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego. All films are shot with smartphones. Unique, interactive fun!
A unique, entertaining, interactive and inspiring film festival with international participation in San Diego, California.
The International Mobile Film Festival is for indie filmmakers, media producers, content creators, students, filmmakers, video producers, video marketers, teachers, and anyone interested in video and film.
Red Carpet Extravaganza!
Pictured: Founder & Director Susy Botello with red carpet sponsors Star Wars Steampunk Universe presented by Dude Vader and Hot Nerd Girl. Red Carpet Show is on Sunday, May 1.
Photo credit: Art Essence Photography.
What kind of crazy idea is this?
Founded in 2009, the IMFF is a pioneer in the global smartphone filmmaking industry.
The IMFF in San Diego has gone through a transformation as the leading festival of its kind for professional and independent filmmakers making feature length and short films using the camera in their smartphones.
We think you and everyone who wants to can be a filmmaker. Are you ready to be a part of the global mobile filmmaking community?
