Occasionally, a shot filmed on an iPhone makes it into your movie. Martin Scorsese revealed there was an iPhone pick-up shot in The Wolf of Wall Street that made the final cut.
But iPhones are no longer just for that quick temporary insert; filmmakers like Sean Baker, Steven Soderbergh, and Claude Lelouch are showing that both new and established filmmakers can make great films using their mobile device, and without needing the most expensive gear. Recently at this year's Cannes, Claude Lelouch discussed shooting sequences of his award-winning film on an iPhone and announced that his newest film to be released this fall had been shot entirely on a smartphone using cinema camera app, FiLMiC Pro.
Smartphones and cinema camera apps are making cinematic storytelling accessible to more voices, and enabling different kinds of stories to be told. We had a chat with Neill Barham, CEO of FiLMiC Inc, about his take on the future of mobile cinema.
