S. Botello Productions/Mobil Film Festival

S. Botello Productions/Mobil Film Festival SBP is creating a smartphone filmmaking community since 2009 beginning with International Mobil Film Festival in San Diego, California. S.

Botello Productions created the Mobil film festival for mobile film, where people who shoot films with mobile phones can submit them to the international film festival. The purpose of this film festival is not only to create interest and spark creativity in people of all ages with limited income or resources, but to actually inspire creative filmmakers to live to their potential and realize the op

portunity to fulfill their dream. Mobile Film Resource Center
Promoting Art, Technology & Education, S. Botello Productions is forming a mobile film resource center for the world to access and collaborate with. A strong emphasis is on connecting the world of filmmaking to mobile filmmakers around the globe via new technological advances with mobile phone cameras. You can contact us if you'd like to get involved. We still have room for you to join a group of global innovators collaborating on mobile film by SBP.

08/14/2025

On behalf of the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego, we want to thank everyone who has already submitted a film to our 15th Edition taking place next April. We have some news for you if you can appreciate the benefits of community.

Since 2009, we've been calling for all humans around the world to make movies using mobile phone cameras. We've always focused on the phone because it is the most accessible mobile device for almost everyone around the world, and always has been.

We've promoted you and your films through an intimate film festival experience in our San Diego based exclusive film festival and throughout the years between editions. Today, we encourage everyone to make an effort to connect with your community worldwide. The opportunities to shine expand our red carpet extravaganza in San Diego.

We are creating a supportive community organized and built by you. Whether you've participated in our film festival or not, you are welcome to be a part of it and begin to show up for each other online and elsewhere.

Artists, storytellers and filmmakers: Community is not a network. It is a space where you support members and members support you. It is a way to spread the trust you feel toward members into trust others feel toward you. It is a give and take without counting or adding. We invite you to participate. Activate your potential through a global community of people from all walks of life who are making and are interested in making films and sharing stories.

Photo: IMFF April 2025 by Chuck Cook Photography.
https://subscribepage.io/mobilecommunity

07/30/2025

We spread a message during San Diego Comic-Con International that you can turn your comic into a film using your smartphone. A comic book is a story and it comes with a storyboard.

We attended the panel with George Lucas, Guillermo Del Toro and Doug Chiang. Their message was so close to ours! ‘Stories through film connect us as humans and create community.’

The Red Carpet Is In Your Pocket™

Photo: Shot by Susy Botello with an iPhone on Sunday, July 27, 2025 with Dude Vader and an impressed cosplayer.

In case you missed it…join your community!
02/08/2025

In case you missed it…join your community!

What's new for the international smartphone filmmaking community in 2025? Let's build it together!

08/01/2023

Sound engineer and smartphone filmmaker Brionne Olsen is inspired by storytelling to make films in South Africa.

08/01/2023
Check our updates, lately? Happy August 2023! Stay creative this summer. Are you working on a mobile film?
08/01/2023

Check our updates, lately? Happy August 2023! Stay creative this summer. Are you working on a mobile film?

Stay tuned! The first official "Fade In To Film" episode arrives Tuesday, July 25 with the SBP Podcast in Episode 151. TUNE IN! Grow Your Passion with Us Raffle! Check out the details for our monthly…

07/16/2023

Yes, it's a real film.

06/20/2023

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Two feature films shot with iPhones are going to blow your mind! Mark the dates to attend this year's 12th annual editio...
01/26/2023

Two feature films shot with iPhones are going to blow your mind! Mark the dates to attend this year's 12th annual edition of San Diego's International Mobile Film Festival!

Meet filmmakers Luis Fernandez, "Desconocidas" and Levi Austin Morris, "Paralysis" in person. Who can blame them? San Diego is beautiful! The filmmakers will present their films and hold a Q&A Session. Celebrate on our unique Red Carpet Extravaganza, learn how to make your own (BYO smartphone) movies in our workshop and much more! Short films TBA very soon.
https://internationalmobilefilmfestival.com/feature-films-2023/

DEADLINE: October 19 is fast approaching. If you, or someone you know, shot a feature film with any smartphone camera, s...
10/08/2022

DEADLINE: October 19 is fast approaching. If you, or someone you know, shot a feature film with any smartphone camera, submit it or share this!

International Mobile Film Festival takes place in San Diego during the last weekend in April, every year. April 28-30, 2023 is our 12th Edition!

The red carpet is in your pocket!™

https://filmfreeway.com/InternationalMobileFilmFestival

Looking back and feeling nostalgic. From cell phone movies to the smartphone in your hand...you've come a long way! Ther...
09/07/2022

Looking back and feeling nostalgic. From cell phone movies to the smartphone in your hand...you've come a long way!

There is no better time like the present to share your masterpieces with the pioneer International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego, California.

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