Inspiring anyone with a smartphone to tell their story through film

SF3  is one of the biggest smartphone film festivals and educators in the world, bringing affordable and accessible filmmaking to the all.

SF3 2025 is now open for entries!

 

Get us your films by September 1st, 2025 to be part of our 11th edition happening in October & November, 2025 in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Exact dates coming soon.

A very big thank you and acknowledgment to all of our SF3 2024 Sponsors. We really couldn’t do it without you.

 

SF3 Major Sponsors are Blackmagic Design & Luma Touch.

Silver Sponsors are Accounting Heart & Melodie.

Bronze Sponsors are Chicken & Chips Casting & Rubber Monkey.

Our 2024 Prize Sponsors are The Screen Actors Workshop, StoryBoard Quick, the ACS, the AWG, the ADG, SPA, the AGSC, Ribbet, The HubStudio, WriterDuet, InkTip, iPitch.tv, WIFT NSW, AACTA/AFI, Backstage, StarNow, Shot Lister, FilmLocal, DreamGrip, Song Saga, Zacuto, Spineless Wonders, NIDA and Reeflex. 

 

 

 

A HUGE congratulations to all of our SF3 2024 Award Winners!

 
SF3 Best Film Award, SF3 Blackmagic Camera High School Award & SF3 Best Screenplay Award Supported by the Australian Writers’ Guild – Don’t Ignore Me by Charli Fletcher – Australia
 
SF3 People’s Choice Award, SF3 #FILMBREAKER Award & the SF3 and Chicken and Chips Casting Pitch Award Winner- The Rectangle Love Triangle by Mina Asfour – Australia
 
SF3 Blackmagic Camera Award – The Meaning of No by Reid McGowan & Mik Gojic – Australia
 
SF3 Best Feature Film Award Winner – LIAR by Tay Jade Barrientos – Australia & 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 – Australia
 
SF3 Best Screenplay Award Supported by the Australian Writers’ GuildAshes to Dust by Clark Lealand Childers – USA
 
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
 
SF3 & Australian Cinematographers Society Best Cinematography Award – Bharat R. Sekhar for Ekstasis – India
 
SF3 & Australian Cinematographers Society Best Cinematography Runner-Up Award – Cassius Rayner for The Missing – UK – and Jerry Hsu 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 Best Original Score Award Supported by the Australian Guild of Screen ComposersHo ManHo in HoManTin by Mark Tai – Hong Kong & A Little Strange by Michael Drew – Australia
 
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 – Nick Payne for Don’t Ignore Me – 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 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
 
SF3 Mini Best Australian Film – Thrifty Gifty by Karina Bracken – NSW
 
SF3 Mini Runner-Up Award – Grandpaparazzi & the  SF3 & Spineless Wonders Short Australian Stories Best Adaptation Award by Joshua Belinfante – NSW
 
SF3 Mini Runner-Up Award – Seasons of Signos by Jessica Falciola, Amelie Dahdah & Eli Searle – NSW
 
SF3 Community & Diversity Award – SF3 Kids Official Selection – Charlie;s Crusade – A Tale of Courage and Cleanliness by Megan West and students of Callaghan College Jesmond Senior Campus Support Unit – NSW
 
SF3 & Spineless Wonders Short Australian Stories Best Adaptation Award – Scott Patrick-Mitchell for Hard Rubbish – WA
 
SF3 Mini Best International Film – A City is also a Wounded Body by Nikka Zavalia – Argentina & Spain
 
SF3 Mini Runner-Up Award – That’s my biscuit! by Juliana Venturini, Amal Ghamlooch, Jonathan Webb & John O’Connor – the UK
 
SF3 Mini Runner-Up Award – Not completely lost by Alexander Shingurov – Khazakstan
 
SF3 Kids Best Film Award High School, SF3 Kids Best Director Award, SF3 Kids Best Cinematography Award, SF3 Kids Best Editing Award & SF3 Kids Best Actor Award – After Adam by Connor Tattersall – Australia
 
SF3 Kids Best Film Award Primary School & SF3 Kids Best Director Award- The Towel by Ella Grace Helton – USA
 
SF3 Kids Best Screenplay Award – Déjà Rêvé by Ella-Maree James – Australia
 
SF3 Kids Best Documentary Award, SF3 First Nations Award & the SF3 Blackmagic Camera Best Primary School Film Award – A Novel Week by Waiaria (Aria) Macedone-Hunt – Australia
 
SF3 Kids Best Actor Award – Zac Deren for The Positivity Project – Australia
 
SF3 Kids Best Actress Award – Aileen Lee by Déjà Rêvé – Australia

#BIGNEWS

 

We are super proud to announce that we were the 2022 Australian Small Business Champion Awards Winner for the Best Performing Arts Company. SF3’s Angela picked up the award in Sydney at the Star Event Centre in front of a crowded room of more than 1000 people. It is a true honour and we thank everyone who has made SF3 what it is today.

SF3 was also a Best Performing Arts Champion Business Finalist in both 2023 & 2024.

 

What is SF3?

SF3 or the SmartFone Flick Fest is one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals for filmmakers of all ages and abilities. We are a world-wide festival open to anyone with a smartphone or tablet and a great idea for a short film.

Past SF3 Films

Our recent winners are all on the festival circuit but you can watch some of our old finalists here from across the years and be inspired to pick up your phone and create your own!

SF3 is a top tier Smartphone Film Festival. The team genuinely love smartphone filmmaking and supporting smartphone filmmakers. They watch the films, they know the filmmakers. The festival is a professional, warm and inviting space.

Darcy Yuille

Filmmaker & SF3 Best Feature Film
2021 Joint Award Winner

This is the new wave of filmmaking and is something all cinema lovers will appreciate — it’s a short, sharp feast of film.

Nicole Da Silva

Actor & SF3 Ambassador

A really fantastic festival run by the team with some phenomenal industry support. They really care about the filmmakers and put on a spectacular show.

 
Joshua Belinfante

Filmmaker & SF3 Best Australian Mini 2021 Award Winner

Workshops

We run smartphone filmmaking workshops around Australia and the world, from one hour classes to five day workshops to students of all ages and abilities, both live and online. Email us to find out more – sf3@sf3.com.au

Our Ambassadors

Our Ambassadors are the most wonderful and supportive professionals from the elite of the film industry and include: Phillip Noyce, Kerry Armstrong, Nicole da Silva, Christopher Stollery, Kriv Stenders, Pieter de Vries, Garry Maddox, Kara Rose, Jon Bell, Anthony Kierann, Jason van Genderen & Emily Prior.

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LumaTouch
Black Magic Design
Melodie
Accounting Heart
StoryBoard Quick
Sirmai
Mobile Innovation Network Australasia
Screen Producers Australia
Shot Lister
Screen Actors Workshop
Ribbet
NIDA
iPitch
Backstage
ADG
ACS
AACTA
InkTip
Chicken & Chips
Accounting Heart
Rubber Monkey
Zacuto
Jason van Genderen
Star Now
Spineless Wonders
Trenear Printing
Song Saga
Film Ink
WIFT NSW
FilmLocal
AGSC
WriterDuet
DreamGrip

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