AUSTRALIA

xThe Mobile Innovation Network and Association [MINA] creates interactions between communities, content, and the creative industries.

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Dog Fruit

 

Stepping into a very sticky situation, eco-warrior Mrs. Ticklebottom faces her toughest challenge yet, dealing with dog poo on the streets. 

Andrew Robb & Jessica Gerger have been making short films for the past fifteen years. Originally from Canberra, Andrew worked for several years as an actor in the UK, playing challenging roles such as ‘Mr. Bruce the Aussie Tourist’ on ‘The Basil Brush Show’. He also produced the cult hit Australian comedy ‘The Vegemite Tales’ in London’s West End before moving back to settle in Melbourne’s Sunshine.
Jessica trained as an actor at the ‘Drama Centre London’ before a successful television and stage career. Jessica comes from a long line of performers and directors in her family and she has combined her passion for the environment and performance through her children’s book and theatre character ‘Mrs. Ticklebottom’.

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Beluah
Beulah keeps this history alive and kicking with local resident Len Coffey aka ‘Squatter’ and his horse ranch where people can learn how to ride a horse and enjoy the nearby trails around the township.

 

#Nucleus

Carbon emission offsetting is fun

 

Max Schleser

Max Schleser is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television and Researcher in the Centre for Transformative Technologies (CTMT) at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia), Adobe Education Leader, Founder of the Mobile Innovation Network & Association and Screening Director of the International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival. Max’s research expertise is Immersive Media and Creative Arts 4.0 with a focus on Cinematic VR and interactive filmmaking. His research explores Screen Production, Emerging Media, and Smartphone Filmmaking for community engagement, creative transformation, and transmedia storytelling.

Max’s experimental films, moving-image arts, and cinematic VR projects are screened at film festivals and exhibited in galleries and museums (www.schleser.nz). His community engaged documentaries are broadcasted on TV and online. He conceptualized and conducted digital storytelling workshops for a number of city councils in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. His industry consultancy includes projects for Adobe, BBC, Nokia, Frontier Strategy, and Open Lab, among other agencies and production companies.
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Australasia

#Nucleus

Smartphone film for a better ecology.

Michael Hollis, Nabil Azizi & Fauzhyana Sharifa, Amirul Firdaus, Sarah Davis, Loyd Doron, Tejas Ewing, Huy Tam Dang, Andrew Robb, Christian Kahnt and Max Schleser

The Goethe-Institut New Zealand hosted the smartphone film competition “#Nucleus“, which stimulated discussion about the environment and sustainability. Now nine filmmakers from seven countries came together to develop a short film.

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“North,” Patrick Kelly

This film was created using Instagram Video and the database film creation platform, Korsakow.

#Selfie #NoFilter

The short experimental film “#Selfie #NoFilter” (2014) utilizes mobile video, Instagram, screenshots, and After Effects to prompt a series of questions concerning the nature of contemporary mobile self-portraits, or ‘selfies’.

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Yarra Valley Arts presents Open Studios artist Ted Secombe

Professional potter Ted Secombe talks about is life as a professional artist and the upcoming Open Studios event.

Adrian Jeffs

Adrian is an award-winning mobile filmmaker and designer from the Yarra Valley in Victoria. With a passion for telling real stories about real people. With a love for technology, it was only natural that his camera of choice would be a smartphone. The intimacy and familiarity of an iPhone defuses any discomfort the subject may feel and its small form factor makes it easy to get into areas that traditional cameras could only dream of.

Mobile Filmmaking has allowed Adrian to allow his dreams and join amazing communities like MINA and FILMBREAKER to help the next wave of smartphone filmmakers reach their goals.