Spike Lee and Nokia raise the curtain on cellphone movies

Spike Lee is pairing with mobile device manufacturer Nokia on a project meant to get people making cellphone movies. Nokia phones are now good for shooting video, and Lee is asking for young people to submit entries for a movie in three acts. He'll select the best footage and edit himself into the next Spike Lee joint. More details at the NYT.

The specs are pretty loose: The central theme of the film is humanity, and the motif of the first act is birth. Plenty of room for interpretation on both counts, and the instructions on the site offer little guidance: "How you define it is up to you." 

Nokia is no doubt banking on Lee's ability to attract a large group of interested submitters, lending some credibility to mobile moviemaking -- until now largely the province of experimenters and tweens. Sorting through terabytes of submitted footage should keep Lee busy all summer -- the film's final cut is due in October.

Comments

[blacknews]

Yea it is crazy how you go to a concert and you see all these phones out. So will Spike use a cell phone to make Do The Right Thing 2.
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[byron hamilton]

COOL IM A FAN OF SPIKE LEE THIS IS A COOL VENTURE EVERYONE CAN JOIN IN I WILL SUBMIT DO YOU HAVE TO HAVE A NOKIS PHONE?