Cine-Phone International Film Festival

CIFF is the first of its kind film festival in the Middle East and worldwide to provide a unique opportunity for global audience in order to become filmmakers and produces through their personal smart phones. This annual festival, which is the biggest in its scope globally, is ushering a new era in the film making industry and is set to present a new fresh genre of cinema. CIFF participants will u

pload their films through the festival's multi-language website.

مهرجان سينمائي عربي فريد يقدم للعالم جنساً سينمائياً جديداً"" :

أعلن المخرج السينمائي حسن ساري مؤخرا إطلاق مهرجان سينمائي
يعد الأول من نوعه في العالم , المهرجان الذي يحمل عنوان
المهرجان الدولي لسينما الهواتف المتحركة
, يطمح الى تدشين ( سينما المواطن العالمي ) وذلك بتحويل سكان الكوكب من مجرد مشاهدين وعشاق للفن السابع إلى صنّاع للأفلام.
وتدور فكرة المهرجان حول الهواتف المتحركة إذ يتيح الفرصة لصناع الأفلام المتمرسين والجدد للحصول على خدمات كاملة من أجل إنتاج أفلامهم ومشروعاتهم السينمائية ومنها خدمات المونتاج والموسيقا التصويرية والممثلين وغيرها.
وقال مؤسس المهرجان ومديره العام حسن ساري إن المهرجان سيشكل إضافة نوعية إلى الحركة السينمائية العربية والإقليمية والدولية ، مشيراً إلى أنّه تم حتى الآن عقد اتفاقيات شراكة مع نحو سبعين محطة تلفزيونية وإذاعة ومجلة وصحيفة وموقع الكتروني للتواصل مع فعالياته .
وأضاف ساري أن كل ما يتعلق بالمهرجان وتفاصيله يحدث لأول مرة في أي مهرجان سينمائي في العالم.

المهرجان السينمائي , الذي يستقبل الأفلام المشاركة عبر موقعه الالكتروني المترجم إلى ثمانية من أكثر اللغات شيوعا في العالم, سيعقد في العاصمة الأردنية عمان في الخامس والعشرين من شهر سبتمبر المقبل بمشاركة عشرات من نجوم السينما من مختلف قارات العالم ، فضلا عن 40 نجما من صناع السينما الاقليمية والعالمية بصفتهم أعضاء في لجان التحكيم في فئات الأفلام المختلفة المهرجان. What is Cell Phone Cinema? Cell Phone Cinema is an ode to the progeny of wireless telecommunication and a creative salute to the advancement of Graham Bell's innovation. CIFF aims at extending the opportunity of creating and capturing images and videos through the simple use of our everyday pocket companion, the cell phone. It marks the advent of a new form of creative expression, which is simple, basic, affordable and very convenient to use. While mobile phone users are long familiar with downloading ringtones, games, view mobisodes clips that play on a mobile phone's screen, they can now also make their own films with their personal mobile phones, and tell their own stories with their own voices freely. CIFF will provide its filmmakers with free editing software to be downloaded from its global website. Ciné-Phone filmmakers will have the unique opportunity to download the music for their films from the Music Lab without violating copyright rules. Through CIFF’s Casting Lab, filmmakers will also have access to a global data base of actors and actresses willing to be part of their film. The website will also have an online TV channel to play films produced by filmmakers using their cell phones. There are currently almost 4 billion mobile devices/screens in the hands of users globally, and these devices are evolving rapidly in terms of sophistication. There is tremendous potential for bite-size film to reach a mass audience in a direct and dramatic new way. Categories: The entries for the competition will revolve around the categories of:
1. Feature Films: (from 90-120 minutes, including credits)
2. Short Films: (from 1-5 minutes, including credits)
3. Under 16-year old Young Filmmakers Short Films: (from 1-5 minutes, including credits—no submission fee is required)
4. Human Rights Short Films: (5 minutes, including credits)
5. Green Films: (3-5 minutes, including credits)
6. Comedy Short Film ( 3-5 minutes , including credits )
7. Documentary Short Film ( 5-10 minutes , including credits )


Prize Distribution :

1. Winning Feature Film .
2. Winnng Short Film .
3. Winning Under 16-year Old Short Film .
4. Winning Human Rights Short Film .
5. Winning Green Film .
6. Winning Comedy Film .
7. Winning Documentary Film . Rules of the game:

*The competition is subject to certain restrictions.
*All entries to be created using a mobile phone.
*The entries should be original and not infringing copyright law.
*All work to be uploaded on Ciné-PhoneFest.com
The event is open for participation from across the globe and managers of each global chapter of the festival will be ready to answer questions by interested filmmakers in their countries, making sure the marketing strategy of CIFF is being implemented, and promoting CIFF and Jordan as a film hub for local media. Shortlisted films will be screened at theatres across Amman and beyond for free to encourage audience to become filmmakers and raise public awareness about this new genre in the filmmaking industry. Announcement of Results:

The film entries received from various countries will be judged by an international jury. The result of the winners of CIFF will be announced on the 30th September 2012. The list of the film entries, qualified for the finals, will be disclosed through CIFF’s website, and shortlisted filmmakers will be flown into Amman. CIFF undertakes to allocate 25 per cent of its annual revenues coming from global submission fees to establish a fund to support young filmmakers in Jordan.




* Hasan sari

Founder & Director General
Cine-Phone International Film Festival ( CIFF )


( Filmmaker, Media Expert, Poet & Global Activist )