Indie Films Come to Handsets

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You might think a hip guy like Cory McAbee, a Brooklyn-based artist, musician, and independent filmmaker with a preference for all-black outfits, would scoff at the idea of his work appearing on a screen about the size of a belt buckle, BusinessWeek.com reports.


In fact, McAbee is among a small but growing group of directors who are embracing mobile phone screens as a promising new venue. “I’m a huge fan of short films,I like making them,” says McAbee, who was in Barcelona in February to attend the 3GSM mobile phone industry trade fair. “It’s tough to get a feature distributed because of the limited number of big screens. But there are millions of little screens.”


A lot of them these days are in India, the world’s fastest-growing mobile phone market. That’s why Bollywood director Sanjay Gupta was also in Barcelona, pacing in front of a hilltop palace and admiring the view of the city below. “As a filmmaker, I need as many outlets as I can find for my stories,” Gupta said. As he sees it, mobile is the “fourth screen,” after movie theaters, TV, and computers.



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