SPOTLIGHT: Nokia Announces Mobile Filmmaking Awards Finalists

Nokia has announced the five finalists for its 2008 Mobile Filmmaking awards. The winners will be screened during the warm-fuzzy Pangea Day event created by award winning documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim. Pangea Day, scheduled for May 10, was created by Noujaim and TED, with support from Nokia, to “connect people by harnessing the power of film and encouraging people to view the world through someone else's eyes.”

(Weren’t we here before with “We are the world?”)

The winners are being flown to Los Angeles to attend one of Pangea Day’s six live broadcast locations. Contestants uploaded their two-minute long entries for the competition to Nokia's Share on Ovi free service; consumers registered on the site voted to select the five finalists. A panel of professional judges will review the finalist entries and pick a winner to be announced during the Pangea Day broadcast. The winner will receive a mobile filmmaking trip to the Rwandan Gorilla Reserve and a production budget to record their trip.

Nokia is doing a lot of legwork to promote mobile video through phones and other mobile devices, adding some social uplifting goodness to make it more attractive. The company has another event lined up with filmmaker Spike Lee to produce a collaborative mashup with video clips submitted online.

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