This is the best in smartphone cinema from across the world. Watch the 15 SF3 2021 Official Selection Films which are all vying for over $50,000 in prizes and to be crowned the SF3 Best Film of 2021! (in 2022 due to Covid).
After you watch the films vote for your favourite to win the SF3 2021 People's Choice Award. The film with most votes when our online festival closes wins. Voting opens with your screening `ticket.
The SF3 Gala Finals Official Selection Screening.
1. Beta Days by Dan Walls
2. Negatives by Jimmy Gannon
3. Year of May by Kyle Nozza
4. The Secret Life of Bees by Mirabai Nicholson-Mckellar
5. Working From Home by Jon Gill
6. Today I Will Live by Nico Piro
7. The Schwarzschild Radius by Pete Majarich
8. Leader by Chris Overton
9. Dead Eye by Cassius Rayner
10. Dance Bots by Damien Warren-Smith
11. Earth 1 and Hoostin by Joel Phillips
12. 9h17 by Benjamin Lapierre
13. eight minutes forty six seconds by Kara Rose
14. Odd One Out by Andrew Robb
15. Cold Water Therapy by Remy Brand
The biggest lie about modern conflicts is that they are fought on battle fields. People who can't flee live in the middle of wars. This story is about them.
Shot on iPhone XS with Filmic Pro.
Director's Statement
Covering wars should not just be about firefights, we should tell more about everyday life of ordinary people, the one who risk to die every day only to go to school or to work. That's the real essence of modern conflicts and the most hard to explain to your audience.
Director's Bio
Nico Piro is the most awarded Italian war correspondent, he is a staff member at Rai, the public Italian Radio Television. He is mostly focused on wars, epidemics and natural disaster. He self-produced his projects too, like "Killa Dizez" a documentary about Ebola epidemics in Sierra Leone (2015). He crowdfunded two of his recents books, both of them about Afghanistan.
He is the Italian pioneer of MOJO (Mobile Journalism) he runs classes to spread the use of smartphone for journalism and storytelling. He is the director of Mojo Italia, the first Italian mobile festival (Rome 2018, first edition) www.mojoitalia.it
- Year2019
- Runtime4:39
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryItaly, Afghanistan
- DirectorNico Piro
- ScreenwriterNico Piro
- ProducerNico Piro
- Executive ProducerNico Piro
- FilmmakerNico Piro
- CastThe people of Afghanistan
- CinematographerNico Piro
- EditorNico Piro
- MusicVirginia Guastella
This is the best in smartphone cinema from across the world. Watch the 15 SF3 2021 Official Selection Films which are all vying for over $50,000 in prizes and to be crowned the SF3 Best Film of 2021! (in 2022 due to Covid).
After you watch the films vote for your favourite to win the SF3 2021 People's Choice Award. The film with most votes when our online festival closes wins. Voting opens with your screening `ticket.
The SF3 Gala Finals Official Selection Screening.
1. Beta Days by Dan Walls
2. Negatives by Jimmy Gannon
3. Year of May by Kyle Nozza
4. The Secret Life of Bees by Mirabai Nicholson-Mckellar
5. Working From Home by Jon Gill
6. Today I Will Live by Nico Piro
7. The Schwarzschild Radius by Pete Majarich
8. Leader by Chris Overton
9. Dead Eye by Cassius Rayner
10. Dance Bots by Damien Warren-Smith
11. Earth 1 and Hoostin by Joel Phillips
12. 9h17 by Benjamin Lapierre
13. eight minutes forty six seconds by Kara Rose
14. Odd One Out by Andrew Robb
15. Cold Water Therapy by Remy Brand
The biggest lie about modern conflicts is that they are fought on battle fields. People who can't flee live in the middle of wars. This story is about them.
Shot on iPhone XS with Filmic Pro.
Director's Statement
Covering wars should not just be about firefights, we should tell more about everyday life of ordinary people, the one who risk to die every day only to go to school or to work. That's the real essence of modern conflicts and the most hard to explain to your audience.
Director's Bio
Nico Piro is the most awarded Italian war correspondent, he is a staff member at Rai, the public Italian Radio Television. He is mostly focused on wars, epidemics and natural disaster. He self-produced his projects too, like "Killa Dizez" a documentary about Ebola epidemics in Sierra Leone (2015). He crowdfunded two of his recents books, both of them about Afghanistan.
He is the Italian pioneer of MOJO (Mobile Journalism) he runs classes to spread the use of smartphone for journalism and storytelling. He is the director of Mojo Italia, the first Italian mobile festival (Rome 2018, first edition) www.mojoitalia.it
- Year2019
- Runtime4:39
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryItaly, Afghanistan
- DirectorNico Piro
- ScreenwriterNico Piro
- ProducerNico Piro
- Executive ProducerNico Piro
- FilmmakerNico Piro
- CastThe people of Afghanistan
- CinematographerNico Piro
- EditorNico Piro
- MusicVirginia Guastella
