Seminal filmmaker, Spike Lee, is going to partner with Nokia for a movie cut entirely from footage shot on mobile phones by everyday people reports Reuters. Spike Lee is calling the project ‘the democratization of film’.
Helmed by Nokia Productions the project will be comprised of three acts, each of which will be set as an “assignment” announced online. After each act assignment has been set, anyone who wants to participate will have four weeks to get their submission in.
The final pieces will be edited and spliced by Lee who has attained major acclaim for films such as Do the Right Thing in 1990, 4 Little Girls and more recently, The 25th Hour.
The film’s theme will be about the way music tells the story of humanity. Though being able to submit footage for the film is already pretty progressive, the truly democratic element will come from the community participation, where Nokia will choose 25 submissions which people will be able to vote for online. Spike Lee will then build the final film out of the three winning submissions for each act.
The final film will premiere later this year in Los Angeles though we are pretty sure it will turn up on the intertubes pretty soon after that too.
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