Be Your Own Media-Portugal to hold 1st-ever cell phone movie competition

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Ten finalist films made entirely with cell phone cameras will go on display on a large screen at a two-day alternative film festival which gets underway on Friday in Lisbon and the public will vote to select the best three.

The movies have all been edited and in some way reflect this year's theme of the fourth annual "Olhares" festival which is "unbalances".

The goal is to show how "an instrument which we use every day, like a mobile telephone, can in the hands of a creative producer revitalize the act of filmmaking," the Chapito cultural centre which is organizing the festival said in a statement.