Mobile, smartphone and pocket filmmaking is a global phenomenon with distinctive festivals, filmmakers and creatives that are defining an original film form. Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice explores diverse approaches towards smartphone filmmaking and interviews an overview of the international smartphone filmmaking community. Interviews with smartphone filmmakers, entrepreneurs, creative technologists, storytellers, educators and smartphone film festival directors provide a source of inspiration and insights for professionals, emerging filmmakers and rookies who would like to join this creative community.
While not every story might be appropriate to be realized with a mobile device or smartphone, if working with communities, capturing locations or working in the domain of personal or first-person filmmaking, the smartphone or mobile device should be considered as the camera of choice. The mobile specificity is expressed through accessibility, mobility and its intimate and immediate qualities. These smartphone filmmaking-specific characteristics and personal forms of crafting experiences contribute to a formation of new storytelling approaches. Stylistic developments of vertical video and collaborative processes in smartphone filmmaking are evolving into hybrid formats that resonate in other film forms.
This book not only develops a framework for the analysis of smartphone filmmaking but also reviews contemporary scholarship and directions within the creative arts and the creative industries. Smartphone Filmmaking: Theory and Practice initiates a conversation on current trends and discusses its impact on adjacent disciplines and recent developments in emerging media and screen production, such as Mobile XR (extended reality).

Max Schleser is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television and Researcher in the Centre for
Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,
Australia. He is also Founder of the Mobile Innovation Network & Association (www.mina.pro).
Max's experimental films, moving-image arts and cinematic VR projects are screened
at film festivals, exhibited in galleries and museums, and his community engaged
documentaries are broadcasted on TV and online (www.schleser.nz).

Introduction
Chapter 1: Toward a Theory and Practice of Mobile, Smartphone and Pocket Filmmaking
The Pioneers
An Original Film Form
MINA, Mobile Innovation Network and Association
Curating the International Mobile Innovation Screening
International Mobile Innovation Screening, 2011-2018
Smartphone Filmmaking Modes
Chapter 2: Spotlight on Mobile and Smartphone Film Festicals
The Global Mobile and Smartphone Film Festival Scene
International Mobile Film Festival (San Diego, USA)
MoMo - Mobile Motion (Zürich, Switzerland)
SF3 Smartphone Flick Fest (Sydney, Australia)
African Smartphone Film Fest (Lagos, Nigeria)
Karl Bardosh, NYU (New York, USA)
Chapter 3: Focus on Smartphone Filmmaking Practice
Independent Smartphone Filmmakers
Gerda Cammaer (Canada/Belgium)
Felipe Cardona (Columbia)
Camille Baker (UK)
Conrad Mess (Spain)
Chapter 4: New Horizons: Creative Industries
21st-Century Creativity and Storytelling
LumaTouch (USA)
Benoît Labourdette (France)
Adobe Rush (USA & Asia Pacific)
Treehouse (Australia)
Struman Optics (Australia)
Chapter 5: Creative Innovation
Experimentation Driving Innovation
Transformational Creativity
Smartphone filmmaking specific formations
Smartphone Filmmaking Modes
Mobile XR
Bibliography
Index