by SmartFone FlickFest | Nov 21, 2024 | Announcements
Announcing all the winners from SF3 Kids. Here are the best smartphone filmmakers 18 years and under from around the world. A huge congrats to:
SF3 Kids Best Film Award High School – After Adam by Connor Tattersall – Australia
SF3 Kids Best Film Award Primary School – The Towel by Ella Grace Helton – USA
SF3 Kids Best Director Award- After Adam by Connor Tattersall – Australia & The Towel by Ella Grace Helton – USA
SF3 Kids Best Cinematography Award – After Adam by Connor Tattersall – Australia
SF3 Kids Best Screenplay Award – Déjà Rêvé by Ella-Maree James – Australia
SF3 Kids Best Documentary Award – A Novel Week by Waiaria (Aria) Macedone-Hunt – Australia
SF3 Kids Best Editing Award – After Adam by Connor Tattersall – Australia
SF3 Kids Best Actor Award – After Adam by Connor Tattersall – Gymea, NSW & The Positivity Project by Zac Deren – Australia
SF3 Kids Best Actress Award – Aileen Lee by Déjà Rêvé – Australia
Watch out for these names in the 2045 Oscars!!!
by SmartFone FlickFest | Nov 20, 2024 | Announcements
DRUM ROLL…for all the winners from our 10th Annual SF3 Gala Finals this past weekend.
And the winners are:
SF3 Best Film Award – Don’t Ignore Me by Charli Fletcher – Australia
SF3 Blackmagic Camera Award –
Reid McGowan & Mik Gojic – Australia
SF3 Blackmagic Camera High School Award – Don’t Ignore Me by Charli Fletcher – Australia
SF3 Best Feature Film Award Winner – LIAR by Tay Jade Barrientos – Australia
SF3 Best Feature Film Award Winner – Circumcision by Yuri Zeltser – USA
SF3 Best Feature Film Runner-Up Award – Voices Unheard by
Aaron Scully, Aarushi Singla, Danielle Attard, Davita Ankrah, Fintan Hogan, Jared Elliott, Leisel Hussey, Riley Fletcher, Sierra Turner, Riley Taylor & Olivia Charlotte – Castle Hill, NSW – 2154
SF3 Best Screenplay Award Supported by the
Australian Writers’ Guild– Ashes to Dust by Clark Lealand Childers – USA & Don’t Ignore Me by Charli Fletcher- Australia
SF3 Best Director Award – HoManHo in HoManTin by Chan Wai Yee, Wylie – Hong Kong
SF3 Best Director Runner-Up Award – Jack Kuei for Dimming -Taiwan
The SF3 & ACS Best Cinematography Award Special Mention – NoFilter Productions for Don’t Ignore Me – Australia
SF3 Best Documentary Award – The Other 90 Percent by Alexandra Guillossou – USA – & a common woman by Debora Diniz – Brazil
SF3 &
Luma Touch Finished on Mobile Award – I THINK, THEREFORE I AM by Benjamin Lapierre – France
SF3 Best Actress Award – Diane Gaeta for Ashes to Dust – USA & Ally O’Brien for The Goat – Australia
SF3 Founders’ Flick Pick – The Vanished River and The Thing by Haolun Jiang – China
SF3 Best Editing Award – Don’t Ignore Me by Nick Payne – Australia
SF3 Best Actor Award – Reid McGowan for The Meaning of No – Australia & Nicholas Sampson for A Little Strange – Australia
SF3 &
WIFT NSW NSW Best Female Creative Award – Anya Dunstone for Sunny Blues – Australia
SF3
#FILMBREAKER Award – The Rectangle Love Triangle by Mina Asfour – Australia
SF3 Best Social Video Award Winner – The Therapist by
Aaron Scully – Australia
SF3 Best AI Film Award Winner – The Night the Monster Disappeared by Benny Shklovsky – Israel & At the Mountains of Madness by Buğra Mert Alkayalar – Turkey
by SmartFone FlickFest | Nov 14, 2024 | Announcements
Photo dump but we couldn’t stop taking photos at our test screenings yesterday at the Palace Cinemas Chauvel and The Randwick Ritz Cinema because the SF3 films all look incredible on the big screen! The films are ready and we can’t wait to share them with you. Come and join us this Saturday, Sunday and Monday and witness smartphone cinema at its finest! Guarantee you’ll be inspired to make a film for SF3 2025!
by SmartFone FlickFest | Nov 12, 2024 | Announcements
And just like that SF3 2024 is off and away after our opening weekend in Melbourne. The MINA and SF3 Festival was an incredible night at ACMI. Loved meeting new filmmakers to the SF3 family, connecting with old ones including Ronald James Baculo , Susie Sparkes and Callum Pritchard – who made his first SF3 film when he was just 13 and has now graduated with Honours in Film Studies!!! And my film, Career Fight from Bus Stop Films blown up on the ACMI big screen! But the best is working alongside Max Schleser, a true pioneer and world-class innovator and one of the OGs in this space. Congrats to all of our filmmakers- Ronald, Joel Wilson, Jack Weltman-Jansen, Lea Savannah Phillips, Juanita Deely, Michael Shlain, Kosseca Films, Greg Coates and Mitchell Noga.
by SmartFone FlickFest | Nov 7, 2024 | Announcements
Max Schleser from MINA has tested our films on the big screen at ACMI and look how fab they look up there! Cannot wait to kick off our 3rd MINA & SF3 Festival tomorrow night. Join us at ACMI in Fed Square from 6-9pm for some of the best smartphone films from two of the top fests plus a special screening of ‘Career Fight’ from Bus Stop Films and Angela Blake starring Chloé Hayden and Chris Bunton.
Get your tix now – https://events.humanitix.com/mina-and-sf3-smartphone-film…
by SmartFone FlickFest | Nov 1, 2024 | Announcements
Esteemed film critic Todd McCarthy called ‘Circumcision’, “mind-boggling, riveting, and uncompromising. Grips you from the beginning and never lets go. I’ve never seen another film like it.” Director Phillip Noyce called it “brilliant, beautiful and original” and “a wonderfully inventive example of next-gen filmmaking”. Producer Ram Bergman (Knives Out, The Last Jedi) called it a “great film”.Producer Nikos Karamigios (American Fiction) called it “extremely personal and emotionally powerful, yet very funny as well.
SF3 Feature Film Finalist, ‘Circumcision’ by US filmmaker, Yuri Zeltser will blow you away on the big screen. It looks like it was shot on a huge camera, not an iPhone 10. Filmed in first-person POV, it’s a tragicomedy about an agnostic man, whose life is completely falling apart (and whose face we never see), until he comes to believe that his pre-teen son is the Messiah, destined to save the world.
