Submissions open for Mina 2013 mobile film festival

Max Schleser has been working with mobile camera devices since 2008

MINA – 2013 | Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa, has placed a callout for films to be included in its 3rd International Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium and Screening in venues in New Zealand and Australia at the end of the year.

The MINA programme will be curated by Dr Max Schleser (Massey University, Wellington, NZ) and Laurent Antonczak (AUT University, Auckland, NZ) and is looking for entries from films shot on smartphones, and mobile and pocket camera films.

Working in collaboration with Ohrenblick Mal (Germany), iPhone Popup Film Festival (UK) International Mobil Film Festival and iPhone Film Festival (USA), MINA will showcase mobile filmmaking projects from around the world at the 3rd International Mobile Innovation Screening in Wellington (November 2013) Film Archive, Auckland (21 and 22 November 2013), AUT University, Auckland City campus new Precinct building and Melbourne (9 December 2013), RMIT University.

MINA’s remit is “to explore the possibilities of interaction between people, content and the creative industries”, and selected mobile films will be featured in the MINA showreel.

• Submission deadline is 16 August 2013, for more details on how to submit a film visit the MINA website.