Nigeria: GSMA, Mofilm Call for Short Films in First Global Mobile Film Festival

Posted to the web 13 October 2008 Miebi Senge The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, and Mofilm, a pioneer of short films for mobile and on-line distribution has announced the first Global Mobile Film Festival at the next Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain 2009, with an official 'call for films' to international film-makers at the weekend. The Global Mobile Festival follows the success of the GSMA's previous collaborations with the Sundance Film Festival to create the Global Short Film Project, which debuted at the Mobile World Congress in 2007 and this year, showcasing with Mofilm, the work of short film directors representing the Cannes, Locarno, Shanghai and Sundance Festivals supported by actor, director and film maker Robert Redford and actress, writer and director Isabella Rossellini. "We have... [read full story]