World’s first mobile phone movie
SMS Sugar Man is the world’s first film shot entirely on mobile phones. It was filmed with eight Sony Ericsson w900i cellphones over 11 days with three main characters for less than 1 million rand($164,100).
“SMS Sugar Man,” which is due to premiere around May, cost just a fraction of the 6 million rand that many low-budget local films cost. By comparison, Hollywood pictures typically cost $40 million to $50 million and often exceed $100 million to produce.
“We wanted to make a radically low-budget film to show that anyone can do this,” said producer Michelle Wheatley. “There are a lot of people in Africa who want to make films and can’t afford it.”
[Via News]