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Spotted In Canary Wharf: Nokia’s Small Cinema

By Tricia Duryee - Tue 06 May 2008 05:15 PM PST

Snapped by Robert right in the middle of London’s Canary Wharf, and mostly ignored by busy financial workers today, was what Nokia (NYSE: NOK) dubbed “the world’s smallest cinema” (not yet verified with Guinness Book Of Records). To encourage people to make movies on their mobile phones, and spread the word about media-sharing site Share On Ovi, Nokia is sponsoring the 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards for a Pangea Day. Five finalists were announced today. Pangea Day was created by documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim to connect people by through film. The five finalists are: Pier Bardoni for Cloud Running; Eduardo Cachucho for Game; Rupert Howe for Amazing Rainbows; Bob Calabritto for Smile; and Kayoom Mistry for Rounds All Around. Contestants uploaded their two-minute entries to Share on Ovi. The finalists will be flown to Los Angeles, where they will be judged, and the winner will receive a trip to the Rwandan Gorilla Reserve and a production budget to record their trip. 

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1 Response:
  • From Dina Thu 08 May 2008 01:47 AM

    I have made a link to this posting on my own blog, DinaView.com, May 8. I am talking of mobile phone filmmaking, and had an experience of this Nokia cinema at the Brunswick centre last week. Dina

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