by SmartFone FlickFest | Jul 4, 2024 | Announcements
Most people are blown away when they find out that people are making features on smartphones! Not us…we ‘ve already had 31 features entered this year alone and we want more! So be like Soderbergh, who has two features on Netflix shot on iPhone, or like last year’s SF3 Feature Winner, Levi Austin Morris and make that film. Don’t wait for ‘one day’, make that feature now on your phone and enter it into SF3 by September 1st.
by SmartFone FlickFest | Jun 11, 2024 | Announcements
Do you want to make a film for SF3 2024 but you just don’t have a story idea? Well look no further that right here – we have teamed up with the awesome Spineless Wonders Short Australian Stories for our Best Adaptation Award. Here is a selection of short stories ready for you to adapt any way you like into a film for our SF3 Mini Competition. Pick a story from this list, adapt and make your film up to 3 mins and enter it by September 1st. It is that easy and fun! What are you waiting for?!!
Read them here – https://sf3.com.au/submit/micro-fictions/
by SmartFone FlickFest | Jun 6, 2024 | Announcements
2024 is our 10 year anniversary and we cannot believe how far smartphone filmmaking has come over this past decade. We knew it was something, but wow! Our very first year we had over 500 shorts entered and now in 2024 we have features, shorts, minis, kids films and more. Be a part of SF3 and screen at our live fest in November with the chance to share in over $50,000 in prizes from our incredible sponsors. We have the most amazing Ambassadors and Judges from Hollywood, Australia and Africa and we invite you to submit a film now. Entries open until September 1st. Find out more at www.sf3.com.au
by SmartFone FlickFest | May 8, 2024 | Announcements
SF3 is back for 2024 with our 10th season celebrating the best in smartphone cinema from across the world & we want your films. Shorts, features, adaptations, AI films, social vids and plenty of special awards including films both shot and edited on mobiles and our brand new award for the best film shot using the Black Magic Cam App – we want them all. We encourage filmmakers of all ages and abilities to pick up your phones or tablets and make a film for us. Entries open till September 1st and over $50,000 in prizes on offer.
by SmartFone FlickFest | Apr 30, 2024 | Announcements
We had a whirlwind these past Aussie school holidays, teaching 11 days of masterclasses plus one regional screening over 14 days. Phew! Tired but absolutely adore inspiring all these young and emerging creatives to create films with just their imaginations and their phones or tablets. The power!!! We taught for 3Bridges Community, Powerhouse Museum, up in Moree and Inverell with It’s going ok and support from the Create NSW and The Office for Regional Youth as part of their School Holiday Break Program plus some private online mentoring sessions. A whole host of new films coming your way soon!
by SmartFone FlickFest | Jan 13, 2024 | Announcements
What we all want to know is, who took home the big awards! We are so proud to announce our winners from our 2023 Gala Finals:
SF3 Best Film Award – Lodi by Courtney Coker
SF3 Best Director Award – Lodi by Courtney Coker
SF3 & ACS Best Cinematography Award –
SJ van Breda for Freeflow
SF3 & ACS Best Cinematography Runner-Up Award – Bartosz Wozniak, Kacper Wozniak & Sally-Ann Dunn for Misaligned from
TRIO StoriesSF3 Best Screenplay Award – Lodi by Courtney Coker
SF3 Best Screenplay Award – Idiot Proof by Jonathan Lagudi and Bailey Spalding
SF3 Best Documentary Award – Bevan by Bevan Garozzo & Arinta Hardjowijono
SF3 Best Editing Award – Freeflow edited by SJ van Breda
SF3 Best Original Score Award – ARLO AND THE SEA by Michael Drew
SF3 Best Actress Award – Courtney Coker for Lodi
SF3 Best Actor Award – Jonathan Lagudi for Idiot Proof
SF3 & Luma Touch Finished on Mobile Award – The Art of Living (with a Mechanical Keyboard) by Ronald James Baculo
SF3 & WIFT NSW Best Female Creative Award – Michèle Jedlicka for That thing we all share
SF3 First Nations Award supported by Dolby – Charli Fletcher for The Locket
SF3 Community & Diversity Award – Nganakaapu by Harlisha Newie-Joe
SF3 Founders’ Flick Pick – ARLO & THE SEA by Damian Overton & Ruben Russo and FOFO MEANS FATHER by Denzel S. Owoo
SF3
#FILMBREAKER Award – Idiot Proof by Jonathan Lagudi & Laura Brogan-Browne
SF3 & Chicken & Chips Best Pitch Award – Reid McGowan for THE BEST
SF360 Best Film Winners – Christopher Young for The Careful Project – Kiera Jas – Thoughts and Davide Rapp for Kursaal
Congrats to all of our SF3 Kids filmmakers, their families who support them, their friends and teachers. Making a film is a team effort. BUT, who are our winners you ask? Here they are:
SF3 Kids Best Film Award High School – At Your Service by Max Shao & Charlie Bradford
SF3 Kids Best Film Award Primary School – My Cookie by Becky Hampson& Sofiah Wiseman
SF3 Kids Best Director Award – Watching by Indianna Thompson
SF3 Kids Best Cinematography Award – Bullet Proof Kids by Tom Morfitt-White & Charlie Wason
SF3 Kids Best Screenplay Award – At Your Service by Max Shao & Charlie Bradford and He She They by Lucia Lobesy
SF3 Kids Best Documentary Award – Me. My eleven years. War by Marusya Shuvalova and A Child’s Guide to Swearing: A Short Documentary by Miles Fisher
SF3 Kids Best Editing Award – At Your Service by Max Shao & Charlie Bradford and Alone by Connor Tattersall
SF3 Kids Best Actor Award – Tom Morfitt-White for Bullet Proof Kids and Ralph for Let Him Out
SF3 Kids Best Actress Award – Ajila Miller-Gersbach for A Day in the Life of an F-Boy
And it is my pleasure to announce our 2023 Mini Award Winners:
SF3 Mini Best International Film – Human Migrant by Kamal Mimoune TAHTAH
SF3 Mini Best Australian Film – Mocha Madness by Greta O’Donoghue & Fran Nagle
SF3 Mini Runner-Up Award – Clock Off by Martin Reyes
SF3 Mini Runner-Up Award – If Nature Could Talk by Billie Dean
SF3 Mini Runner-Up Award – The Elements of Movement by Brionne Samuel Olsen
SF3 & Spineless Wonders Best Adaptation Award – The Beginning of the End by Tirel Weerasingha
SF3 & Spineless Wonders Best Adaptation Award – COVID Travel by Shady Cosgrove
