Celebrate Saugatuck by using your video-enabled Cell Phone as a paint brush!
Call for 60 Second Cell Phone Flicks for microPAH:Saugatuck 2012. More info→
Travelling across the United States and overseas, PAH-FEST is a groundbreaking digital media festival that celebrates the stories and voices of everyday people. Through a variety of FREE contests, local participants are invited to create their own short digital films with pro-sumer cameras and video-enabled mobile phones provided by the Festival. Experienced industry “coaches” help festival participants realize their vision within the allotted timeframe. Winning films are screened in a closing ceremony, and posted online for an international audience.

UPCOMING PAH-FESTS

  • Braille Institute April 27, May 4, May 11
  • Saugatuck, MI June 14-17
  • POP CON 2012 July 5-8
  • Motown July 9-15
  • Hollywood, CA Oct 21-27

IN-DEVELOPMENT

  • Fez Film Fest, Sacramento July 2012
  • Century City/Microsoft StoreAug 2012
  • Oldenburg, Germany Sep 2012
  • Palo Alto Nov 2012
  • China Dec 2012
  • What Is Mobiflicks
  • What Is Cell Phone Art?
  • What is Digi-Portrait?"
  • What Is Circus Vision?
  • What Is A Tone Poem"
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Do you have a story idea that would make A GREAT SHORT FILM? Do you have a story about something important to you THAT ONLY YOU CAN TELL? Do you want to impress your family, friends and neighbors, and COMPETE FOR CASH PRIZES? Winning teams will gather at PAH-FEST to write, produce, shoot and edit their 6 minute story. PAH-FEST will provide everything needed to make their movies for FREE: a prosumer camera, an editing system and coaches, plus a one-day crash course to help prepare for production. Movies will be screened at Festival Closing Ceremony, and a cash prize awarded to the winner.

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The Cellphone Art Contest challenges your imagination by giving you the following ingredients to make a one-minute movie: a video-enabled cell phone (or you can use your own); a surprise topic given out by Christopher Coppola before the contest begins; just a few short hours to create and submit your Cellphone Art entry.

Everyone is welcome to show up at PAH-FEST and participate in this fun and exciting contest. Your submission will be featured in the PAH Nation Theater to be rated by celebrity judges and the online public, and a CASH PRIZE is awarded to the winning piece!

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Using a video-enabled cell phone, create a 2 minute portrait of yourself or another person. PAH-FEST will supply a complete Adobe editing system for you to edit and finish your piece.

Everyone is welcome to show up at PAH-FEST and create a DigiPortrait. Your submission will be featured in the PAH Nation Theater to be rated by celebrity judges and the online public, and a CASH PRIZE is awarded to the winning piece!

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Kids 14 and under participate in a smart phone visual treasure hunt and win a prize!

Using a smart phone, children will help document the "History of Now" by gathering a list of visual ingredients at the same, specific location. They will shoot and edit a 2 minute piece on a smart phone and e-mail or bluetooth it back to PAH Headquarters. They will have 5 hours to complete the task. The Circus Vision piece that interprets the list of visual ingredients the most uniquely, but accurately will win the prize.

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Using a flip camera, participants record imagery that visually expresses an original musical composition. Computers, editing software and technical support are provided for FREE to help participants edit and complete their pieces.

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