Cellphone film contest inspires small thinking

USAToday: [An Ithaca College] has invited high school and college students across America to submit a 30-second movie shot entirely with a cellphone... About 130 million of those Americans own cellphones with camera capabilities, and approximately half also possess video functions, said Roger Entner, an analyst with Ovum, a Boston-based technology consulting firm.

This fall, MTV launched Head and Body, a comedy series of eight programs created exclusively for cellphone users. Last year, Zoie Films, an Atlanta-based producer of independent films and festivals, ran what it billed as the world's first cell-phone film festival.

"It will be about my generation's mobility and the falling down of borders," she said.