Max Schleser is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is also the Adobe Education Leader, Co-Founder of the Mobile Innovation Network & Association (www.mina.pro) and Screening Director of the International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival. He has co-edited Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones (2014) and Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones (2019), and edited journals for Ubiquity, the Journal of Pervasive Media and the Journal of Creative Technologies. He conceptualised and conducted digital storytelling workshops for a number of city councils in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. His industry consultancy includes projects for Adobe, BBC, Nokia, Frontier Strategy and Open Lab, among other agencies and production companies.Max’s experimental films, moving-image arts and cinematic VR projects are screened at film festivals and exhibited in galleries and museums (www.schleser.nz). His community engaged documentaries are broadcast on TV and online (https://www.behance.net/maxschleser).

• IntroductionChapter 1: Toward a Theory and Practice of Mobile, Smartphone and Pocket FilmmakingThe PioneersAn Original Film FormMINA, Mobile Innovation Network and AssociationCurating the International Mobile Innovation ScreeningInternational Mobile Innovation Screening, 2011-2018Smartphone Filmmaking ModesChapter 2: Spotlight on Mobile and Smartphone Film FesticalsThe Global Mobile and Smartphone Film Festival SceneInternational 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 PracticeIndependent Smartphone FilmmakersGerda Cammaer (Canada/Belgium)Felipe Cardona (Columbia)Camille Baker (UK)Conrad Mess (Spain)Chapter 4: New Horizons: Creative Industries21st-Century Creativity and StorytellingLumaTouch (USA)Benoît Labourdette (France)Adobe Rush (USA & Asia Pacific)Treehouse (Australia)Struman Optics (Australia)Chapter 5: Creative InnovationExperimentation Driving InnovationTransformational CreativitySmartphone filmmaking specific formationsSmartphone Filmmaking ModesMobile XRBibliographyIndex

Max Schleser’s book exceeds the ‘how to’, placing smartphone filmmaking in an original framework, but linking it too to innovative and experimental film traditions. He draws on pioneers, theorists, innovators, artists, programmers and technologists offering up a fascinating look at a transformations in filmmaking.

Max Schleser is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is also the Adobe Education Leader, Co-Founder of the Mobile Innovation Network & Association (www.mina.pro) and Screening Director of the International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival. He has co-edited Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones (2014) and Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones (2019), and edited journals for Ubiquity, the Journal of Pervasive Media and the Journal of Creative Technologies. He conceptualised and conducted digital storytelling workshops for a number of city councils in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. His industry consultancy includes projects for Adobe, BBC, Nokia, Frontier Strategy and Open Lab, among other agencies and production companies.Max’s experimental films, moving-image arts and cinematic VR projects are screened at film festivals and exhibited in galleries and museums (www.schleser.nz). His community engaged documentaries are broadcast on TV and online (https://www.behance.net/maxschleser).

• IntroductionChapter 1: Toward a Theory and Practice of Mobile, Smartphone and Pocket FilmmakingThe PioneersAn Original Film FormMINA, Mobile Innovation Network and AssociationCurating the International Mobile Innovation ScreeningInternational Mobile Innovation Screening, 2011-2018Smartphone Filmmaking ModesChapter 2: Spotlight on Mobile and Smartphone Film FesticalsThe Global Mobile and Smartphone Film Festival SceneInternational 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 PracticeIndependent Smartphone FilmmakersGerda Cammaer (Canada/Belgium)Felipe Cardona (Columbia)Camille Baker (UK)Conrad Mess (Spain)Chapter 4: New Horizons: Creative Industries21st-Century Creativity and StorytellingLumaTouch (USA)Benoît Labourdette (France)Adobe Rush (USA & Asia Pacific)Treehouse (Australia)Struman Optics (Australia)Chapter 5: Creative InnovationExperimentation Driving InnovationTransformational CreativitySmartphone filmmaking specific formationsSmartphone Filmmaking ModesMobile XRBibliographyIndex

Max Schleser’s book exceeds the ‘how to’, placing smartphone filmmaking in an original framework, but linking it too to innovative and experimental film traditions. He draws on pioneers, theorists, innovators, artists, programmers and technologists offering up a fascinating look at a transformations in filmmaking.

Max Schleser is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is also the Adobe Education Leader, Co-Founder of the Mobile Innovation Network & Association (www.mina.pro) and Screening Director of the International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival. He has co-edited Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones (2014) and Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones (2019), and edited journals for Ubiquity, the Journal of Pervasive Media and the Journal of Creative Technologies. He conceptualised and conducted digital storytelling workshops for a number of city councils in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. His industry consultancy includes projects for Adobe, BBC, Nokia, Frontier Strategy and Open Lab, among other agencies and production companies.Max’s experimental films, moving-image arts and cinematic VR projects are screened at film festivals and exhibited in galleries and museums (www.schleser.nz). His community engaged documentaries are broadcast on TV and online (https://www.behance.net/maxschleser).

• IntroductionChapter 1: Toward a Theory and Practice of Mobile, Smartphone and Pocket FilmmakingThe PioneersAn Original Film FormMINA, Mobile Innovation Network and AssociationCurating the International Mobile Innovation ScreeningInternational Mobile Innovation Screening, 2011-2018Smartphone Filmmaking ModesChapter 2: Spotlight on Mobile and Smartphone Film FesticalsThe Global Mobile and Smartphone Film Festival SceneInternational 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 PracticeIndependent Smartphone FilmmakersGerda Cammaer (Canada/Belgium)Felipe Cardona (Columbia)Camille Baker (UK)Conrad Mess (Spain)Chapter 4: New Horizons: Creative Industries21st-Century Creativity and StorytellingLumaTouch (USA)Benoît Labourdette (France)Adobe Rush (USA & Asia Pacific)Treehouse (Australia)Struman Optics (Australia)Chapter 5: Creative InnovationExperimentation Driving InnovationTransformational CreativitySmartphone filmmaking specific formationsSmartphone Filmmaking ModesMobile XRBibliographyIndex

Max Schleser’s book exceeds the ‘how to’, placing smartphone filmmaking in an original framework, but linking it too to innovative and experimental film traditions. He draws on pioneers, theorists, innovators, artists, programmers and technologists offering up a fascinating look at a transformations in filmmaking.