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MINAXIII

  • September 5, 2024
  • by Max

We are excited to announce the MINA XIII program.

This year the following films will screen at ACMI on the 8th of November (6 pm-9 pm)

Get your cinema tickets before they sell out: https://events.humanitix.com/mina-and-sf3-smartphone-film-festival

In its 13th edition, MINA will present a screening in partnership with SF3.

The MINA & SF3 Smartphone Film Festival program will be online soon.

ACMI Cinema Screening features

Before The Sand Returns To The Sea 

The Missing 

Parisian Mentalscapes 

Shoes 

1948 What We Knew 

The Future Innu 

Single Use Abuse 

Fashion Victims 2.0 

Pearlescent Glass 

Echoes of Light 

Celestial Drama 

chryptochrome 

She 

Something I Do Not Want 

The Vertical Films will be screened online via ://www.sightvault.xyz/collection/mina-vault following the cinema screening on the 8th of November.

Chryptochrome 

Limbus 

molecular memories 

Something I Do Not Want 

Book of the Dead 

Hunter Loading 

Flowered 

The #Ecosmartphone films will be screened online via ://www.sightvault.xyz/collection/mina-vault following the cinema screening on the 8th of November.  

Single Use Abuse 

SEAS THE DAY 

Sowing Seeds 

Creating a Safe Space for Tibal Sahariya Youth to Improve Access to safe Water in Rural Rajasthan, India 

Fashion Victims 2.0 

FLOWERS 

Looking Close 

Because We Can 

molecular memories 

Link 

Limbus 

 

The AI films will be screened online via ://www.sightvault.xyz/collection/mina-vault following the cinema screening on the 8th of November.  

Nightmare A1 

She 

Something I Do Not Want 

Movies+Math 

The Mobile Cinematic VR films and immersive media experiences will be presented in the MINA program, which will be online soon. 

A Love Letter To Skating 

A Miscarriage of Justice XR 

A Colorful Melancholy 

The New Voices smartphone films will be screened online via ://www.sightvault.xyz/collection/mina-vault following the cinema screening on the 8th of November.  

Echoes of Light 

Suppression 

Hollow 

Heritage 

Dreambreaker 

EVE 

BUSY 

Waves

Pearlescent Glass 

MINA is the longest-running film festival in the Southern Hemisphere dedicated to mobile & smartphone filmmaking with a focus on moving-image arts, documentary, community-engaged film productions, experimental films and emerging film production forms and formats, such as MoJo, drone videos, AR, Mobile AI and Mobile Cinematic VR.

SF3 or the SmartFone Flick Fest is one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals for filmmakers of all ages and abilities. https://sf3.com.au/

The MINA & SF3 Smartphone Film Festival is 18+.

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MINA XII

  • February 7, 2023
  • by Max

Call for smartphone films and six mobile film commissions

 

In its 12th edition MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network and Association, will present a public screening of smartphone, mobile and pocket films in Melbourne, Australia at ACMI, national museum of screen culture (10th November 2023), in Ningbo, China (9th -10th December 2023) and internationally via Urban Screen TV. MINA, Swinburne University of Technology and Australian Environments on Screen* will provide six grants at $2500 for mobile screen productions that interact with the environment to produce novel and challenging perspectives on Australian environments.

MINA is the longest-running film festival dedicated to celebrating mobile and smartphone filmmaking internationally. MINA creates connections between filmmakers, communities, and the creative industries. The #MINA2023 International Mobile Innovation Screening will showcase short films (7 min maximum duration) produced on and with smartphones, mobile and pocket cameras.

In the last eleven years, MINA featured new developments in narrative and non-narrative explorations, in documentary, experimental and abstract filmmaking. In 2017 MINA successfully introduced drone filmmaking and in 2018 Mobile Cinematic VR productions as part of the screening program. Mobile AR, mobile VR and drone project videos can include project showcases and documentation (maximum duration 4min). Last year we introduced a Vertical Video category in collaboration with Vertifilms and this year MINA will commission smartphone films relating to the theme of mobile storytelling and the Australian environment.

In 2023 MINA will present


– An open call for mobile, smartphone and pocket short films (7min max)
– New Voices: Next Gen smartphone filmmakers, a category for young and emerging filmmakers
– Mobile Cinematic VR & 360° Video Production: The Future is Now
– 
Creative category: Vertical videos, MoJo, micro-movies and micro-formats
– #EcoSmartphoneFilms
Submission via https://filmfreeway.com/mina by 18th May

  • 6x AUD 2500 commissions: Australian environments

This commission is part of a larger project exploring the affordances of mobile media for shaping our understanding of the Australian environment at a time of climate crisis, and how it might forge new relationships between people and the environment. The completed mobile video or smartphone film (5min max) should be accompanied by a short piece outlining the creative process (either as written or an audio-visual, 2min max, component). Please send a 250-word proposal and 150-word bio to Max*AT*mina.pro by 18th May.

Smartphones provide opportunities to see the world in a new perspective and change the viewpoints of representation. With the rise of smartphone filmmaking, MoJo (mobile journalism) and transmedia storytelling filmmakers, artists, activists and designers establish new forms of connectivity and sociability. Collaborative and co-creative film-making practices empower communities around the world to express themselves. With the constant innovation of camera technology and image/video processing applications, mobile and smartphones aesthetics are shaping new experiences and enable storytellers to cover new ground. In order to make the program accessible in an uncertain time for travelling the screening reel will also be streamed via SoundSurf and UTV (more information will be available soon on www.mina.pro).

For further questions or if you would like to host a smartphone filmmaking screening or workshop email Max*AT*mina.pro

MINA Screening Partners:

Adobe
Urban Screen TV
FilmConvert
Luma Touch
FiLMiC Pro
Moondog Labs
Struman Optics
Vertifilms

Supported by:

Mobile Studies Institute, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Swinburne University of Technology
*Remaking the Australian Environment Through Documentary Film and Television is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme.

 

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#MINA2015 INTERNATIONAL MOBILE INNOVATION SCREENING

  • October 28, 2015July 18, 2017
  • by seanL

The Mobile Innovation Network Australasia is an international network that promotes cultural and research activities to expand the emerging possibilities of mobile media.

In its fifth edition MINA will present a public screening of smartphone, mobile and pocket films at RMIT University and on Fed TV at Federation Square, Melbourne.

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4th Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium

  • October 25, 2014July 18, 2017
  • by seanL

Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA] is an international network that promotes cultural and research activities to expand the emerging possibilities of mobile media. MINA aims to explore the opportunities for interaction between people, content and the creative industry within the context of Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally.

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World Summit Award – NZ Nominations

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MINA Nominates Aotearoa Apps for World Summit Award

In May MINA will nominate eight New Zealand mobile applications for the WSA award. MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA] creates interactions between people, content and the creative industries.

New times bring new challenges. Today, in terms of access, mobile usage has outgrown Internet usage by threefold with more than 6.5 billion connections registered around the world to date. Mobile phones are becoming smarter and revolutionising what can be done with them. We are in the middle of the explosive development of mobile applications and mobile content. As a response to this rapid development and focus change on the content scene worldwide, the WSA has started the WSA-mobile. The new award has been launched in 2010 and is dedicated explicitly to selecting and promoting the world’s best m-Content.

The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global UN-WSIS bi-annual award. It selects and promotes the world’s best e-Content and most innovative ICT applications, be it websites, apps or interactive installations. Initiated by Austria in 2003 in the framework of the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the WSA implements the UN agenda for the development of the information society. Specifically, it supports the UN Millennium Development Goals and turns the WSIS targets in relation to Action Lines Media and Content into action. The 40 WSA-mobile Winners will be invited to the Winners events (conference, exhibition and gala) to Abu Dhabi. At the events a Jury will also vote on 1 WSA-mobile Global Champion in each category to be announced at the gala. New Zealand winners products will be presented as best content from all UN member states in theWSA Catalogue, which will be distributed to the global partner network.

WSA CATEGORIES

From health to business, from science to inclusion: the eight m-WSA categories reflect most crucial social issues of every-day life around the globe.

  1. m-Government & Open Data
  2. m-Health & Environment
  3. m-Learning & Science
  4. m-Entertainment & Games
  5. m-Culture & Tourism
  6. m-Media & Journalism
  7. m-Business & Commerce
  8. m-Inclusion & Empowerment

Full description on each categories, rules, etc.

NOMINATING AOTEAROA APPS FOR WORLD SUMMIT AWARD

You can nominate through one of the following:

App developers can submit:

  • Name of the application
  • Name of the producer / contact of the producer
  • Email contact of producer
  • URL of the application

Strategic partners for WSA award: MINA, UNIDO, UNESCO, UN Global Alliance for ICT & Development (GAID), Mobile Monday.

Contact Max@mina.pro for further information.
We look forward to hearing from you.

Dr. Max Schleser (co-founder Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa)

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Mobile Phone Filmmaking Workshop

  • October 16, 2013
  • by seanL

18 -19 November | Auckland | 9am – 4pm

MINA co-founders, Laurent Antonczak and Max Schleser will be leading a two-day intensive workshop that will give an overview of the many styles and techniques used to create films using a mobile phone. Participants will explore the ideas, scripting, shooting and editing processes to enable them to produce a short film; whether it’s an educational video, experimental film or the next viral hit.

Cost: $75 – $150
Location: AUT City Campus WE402, Level 4, WE Art & Design Building, St Paul Street
Register: https://mobileworkshop2013.eventbrite.co.nz/

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International Mobile Innovation Screenings

This year’s MINA screening program features pocket films, mobile-mentaries and smartphone film from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S.A. ip checker . The 2013 International Mobile Innovation Screening is curated by the MINA Screening Committee and Max Schleser in collaboration with MINA’s partner film festivals: iPhoneFF (USA), SEISFF (Korea), Cinephone (Spain), Mobile Film Festival (Macedonia), Mobil Film Festival (USA), Ohrenblick Mal and Mobile Streifen (Germany).

06 November | 6.30 – 7pm reception | 7pm – 8.30pm screening |

Location: The New Zealand Film Archive – Te Anakura Whitiahua, 84 Taranaki Street

Ticket price: $8 Public | $6 Concession

Auckland

21 November |  7pm – 8pm
22 November |  6pm – 7pm

The Auckland screenings are free and open to the public.

Location: AUT City Campus WG404, Level 4, WG Sir Paul Reeves Building, Governor Fitzroy Place

Melbourne

9 December |  5pm – 8pm

The Melbourne screenings are free and open to the public.

Location:  Cinema, Swanston Academic Building, Swanston St

Programme:

Łukasz Krysiewicz, Wilhelm Jerusalem – Kołacze
Maria Donata Napoli, Movies are made of light!
Nathalie Giraud + Timothée Corteggiani, The Girl with The Red Balloons
Benoît Labourdette, Break
Kaihei HASE, Hydroscope
Simon Woolham, A Short Term Effect
Anders Weberg, Absent VIII + Sincerely Yours
Kristian Day, I See What Is Here
Lorena A. Díaz Herrera + Stefania Ramírez López, TransmiLoop
Kevin Logan, To Have & To Have Not
Marsha Berry, Slivers of Necessity
Jake Ngawaka, Damp
Ian McClerin, December 28th
Zaher Omareen, Two Stories
Patrick Kelly, North
Anne Massoni, Yours & Mine 2
24 Frames 24 Hours Mobile Filmmaking Crew and Max Schleser, 24 Frames 24 Hours
Leila Nadir + Cary Peppermint, Indeterminate Hikes
Paul Taylor, Digital Trust Hike
Giuliano Chiaradia, #Artmobile Symphony Mobile 4 Editions
Andrew B. White, Diameter
Max Schleser, Midtown
Jillian Roberts, 24 Minutes
Alexey Abramovich, SIM-Ki
Tam Webster, On the Run
Gerda Cammaer, Mobilarte
Leo Berkeley, The 57
Adrian Miles, About 7am: The First Quarter
Candy Elsmore, A Grand Mother
Seth Keen, Ramblings of a Post-industrial Media Maker
Vadócz Péter, Global Warming
Andrew Ferguson, Honeymoon 1976
Smiljana Glisovic, Icie’s second year (in 5 Chapters)
Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath, Box Me Dumb

We hope you enjoy the programme and would like to use this opportunity to thank the MINA screening committee: Assoc. Prof. Andre Ktori (Massey University, New Zealand), Ben Lenzner (PhD Candidate Screen and Media Studies University of Waikato), Felipe Cardona (Universidad Externado de Colombia), Dr Frances Joseph  (AUT University, New Zealand), Karen Curley (School of Design, Massey University), Laurent Antonczak (MINA co-founder & AUT University, New Zealand), Dr Mark Jackson (AUT University, New Zealand), Dr. Marsha Berry (RMIT University), Tony Meyers (Smart-Movie Making) and Dr. Max Schleser (MINA co-founder & School of Design, Massey University) and MINA’s partner film festivals: iPhoneFF (USA), SEISFF (Korea), Cinephone (Spain), Mobile Film Festival (Macedonia), Mobil Film Festival (USA), Ohrenblick and Mobile Streifen (Germany).

With a special thanks to the School of Art & Design (AUT University) and CoLab (Creative Technologies Research Institute for the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at AUT University) and continued support from the School of Design and the College of Creative Arts (Massey University).

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3rd MOBILE CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION SYMPOSIUM

Going Mobile?

The MINA 2013 Symposium, Screenings and Workshops explore the expansion of mobile social media, mobile technologies, mobile production and mobile aesthetics.

From November 18 – 22, 2013 AUT University will be the home of a series of events exploring mobile technologies in film, education, business and creativity.  The week begins with a two-day mobile filmmaking workshop, and moves into the Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium, before closing with the third edition of the International Mobile Innovation Screening.

The events are co-hosted by MINA (Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa), Colab (AUT University) and the School of Art & Design (AUT University) in collaboration with the School of Design at the College of Creative Arts (Massey University, Wellington).

Within the last few years, the proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices has changed the way people interact and communicate.

The 2013 MINA Symposium and Screening is centred around the question, ‘how are mobile and social media technologies used to create innovation through creative and cultural practices?’ and will seek to answer this question through presentations of papers, workshops, poster presentations, performances, project showcases and mobile screenings in situ and via live web-broadcasts.

3rd Mobile Creativity and Mobile Innovation Symposium

21 – 22 November | 9.15am – 6pm

The Symposium provides a platform for filmmakers, artists, designers, researchers and industry professionals to debate the prospect of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in art and design environments, education, and the creative industries.

The 2013 programme explores some specific mobile developments and dynamics in a multi-disciplinary context such as mobile & media production, mobile & pedagogy, mobile & aesthetic, mobile & hybrid art, mobile & interactivity, mobile & space and mobile & society, mobile & transmedia.

Keynote speakers are Helen Keegan (University of Salford, UK) and Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Australia). Whats my ip .  Presenter topics range from ‘Twitter, Instagram and Micro Narratives’, ‘Collaborative Mobile-Mentaries (mobile documentary)’, ‘The Brown Book: Māori in Screen Production’ to Instagram Video and the Creation of Slow Media, ‘mobile location-based augmented reality gaming’ and ‘the democratization of Mobile Filmmaking’.

Cost: $45 – $130
Location: AUT City Campus WG403, Level 3, WG Sir Paul Reeves Building, Governor Fitzroy Place
Register: http://mina2013.eventbrite.co.nz/

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