OFFICIAL ANNUAL AWARDS
Awardees for the International Mobile Film Festival are listed below.
Every film in the official International Mobile Film Festival was shot using the camera on a mobile phone. IMFF was launched in 2009 and it was born from an idea by the founder to create a platform for any human being anywhere in the planet to share stories through the filmmaking medium and provide them with a traditional film festival opportunity as long as all their films were shot with the most accessible camera around the world: the mobile phone. We dared everyone to “do it” and by doing so, if their films were good we would share them on a big screen and invite them to come to San Diego to present their films, network with each others and people in the industry, participate in Q&A sessions and panels and take part in mobile filmmaking workshops.
Our inaugural film festival took place during the last weekend of April 2012. All the filmmakers and films listed received official awards during each film festival since then. All films are judged by a carefully selected Judging Panel whose Judges are chosen each year.
Launched in 2022: The ROOKIE Award for the novice and beginning mobile filmmaker. This new category and award was created as a result of our transformation beginning in 2022.
*You can now purchase brand merchandise with our logo on the Mobile Filmmaker Shop open 24/7 online.
Thirteenth Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2024
Winners: All awards will be announced during the live in person awards ceremony April 28 late night Pacific Daylight Time.
Feature Film Competition Winner – Pending.
Mobile Short Film Competition Winners – Pending.
Best of Category Winners – Pending
The Rookie Award Short Film Competition Winner: Pending.
Best Smartphone Photo Winner – Frame A Story (One story in one frame): Pending.
Twelfth Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2023
Winners:
Feature Film Competition Winner
Best Feature Film: Levi Austin Morris | Paralysis (iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro)
Mobile Short Film Competition Winners
First Prize: Elizabeth Marlo | Time (Xiaomi X)
Second Prize: Alex Dridger | Lockdown (Google Pixel 6)
Third Prize: Dastanbek Borkoshev | Family – (iPhone 11 Pro)
Best of Category Winners
Megan Landry| Best Experimental Short Film, TARA 2022 (iPhone 11)
Xiang Ao, Chaobin | Best Music Video Short Film, Toxic Love Part 2 Director’s Cut (iPhone 13 Pro)
Dastanbek Borkoshev | Best Documentary Family (iPhone 11 Pro)
Alex Dridger | Best Ultimate Mobile Short Film, Lockdown (Google Pixel 6)
Elizabeth Marlo | Best Narrative Short Film, Time (Xiaomi X)
The Rookie Award Short Film Competition Winner
The Rookie Award: Robots Don’t Tell Jokes by Kelli Caldwell (iPhone 12 and iPhone 8)
Best Smartphone Photo Winner
Frame A Story (One story in one frame): Ian Leer, One Frame Stories: War with the Drobe (iPhone 12 Pro Max)
Eleventh Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2022
Winners:
Feature Film Competition Winner
Best Feature Film: Darcy Yuille | One Punch (iPhone 8 Plus & iPhone X)
Runner Up: James Smith and Caroline Spence | Surveilled (Samsung S9+)
Mobile Short Film Competition Winners
First Prize: Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar | The Secret Life of Bees (iPhone 11 XS Max)
Second Prize: Taylor Buoro | Packet Mix (Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra)
Third Prize: Marcelo Ignacio Lagreze | (PAUSE) – (iPhone XR)
Best of Category Winners
Daniel Michael Tomcik | Best Experimental Short Film, To Dust I Shall Return
Clint Clark | Best Music Video Short Film, Dream Come True
Marcelo Ignacio Lagreze | Best Documentary Short Film, (PAUSE)
Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar | Best Geography, Wildlife and Travel Short Film, The Secret Life of Bees
Jon Gill | Best Ultimate Mobile Short Film, Working At Home
Cara Hagan | Best Screendance Short Film, Holocene Dreams
Taylor Buoro | Best Narrative Short Film, Packet Mix
Innaugural The Rookie Award Short Film Competition Winner
The Rookie Award: A Boy’s Best Friend by Quinn Friedman (iPhone 12 Pro Max)
Tenth Anniversary of the Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2021
Winners:
Feature Film Competition Winner
Best Feature: Jennifer Zhang | Charon (iPhone 8 Plus)
Feature Film Pioneer: Jennifer Zhang | Charon (iPhone 8 Plus)
*Jennifer Zhang pioneered shooting a feature film (73 minutes) with her iPhone & editing the film on her iPhone. The special award was presented to Jennifer in person on July 20, 2021 in San Diego.
Mobile Short Film Competition Winners
First Prize: Arthur Mikheev | War Is Not A Game (iPhone 11 Pro)
Second Prize: Razi Uddin | A Train To Home (iPhone 6 & 7)
Third Prize: Ben Treston | Shifted (iPhone 11 Pro)
Ninth Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2020
Winners:
Feature Film Competition Winner
Best Feature: Inga Vosk | Stealth (iPhone X, 6 & 8)
Mobile Short Film Competition Winners
First Prize: Tom F. Pardo | Submerged (iPhone 8)
Second Prize: Jamiel Laurence | Benched (iPhone X)
Third Prize: Oleg Loparev | Never Wanna Grow Up (iPhone 7)
Eighth Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2019
Winners:
Feature Film Competition Winner
Best Feature: Ross Perkins | Mad House (iPhone 6S)
Mobile Short Film Competition Winners
First Prize: Blake Worrell | Upend (iPhone 6s)
Second Prize: Alexandra Guillossou | The Deepest Cut (iPhone 6)
Third Prize: Francisco Lidon Plaza | Dulcinea (iPhone X)
Seventh Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2018
Mobile Short Film Competition Winners
First Prize: Brian Hennings | Focus (Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge)
Second Prize: Jules Bartkowski | Creepy Feeling (iPhone 7)
Third Prize: Narelle Nash | The Actor (iPhone 7)
Seventh Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2018
Winners:
Mobile Short Film Competition Winners
First Prize: Brian Hennings | Focus (Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge)
Second Prize: Jules Bartkowski | Creepy Feeling (iPhone 7)
Third Prize: Narelle Nash | The Actor (iPhone 7)
Sixth Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2017
Winners:
Feature Film Competition Winner
Best Mobile Feature Film: Figment (iPhone 6)
Director
Mithran Maharajan
Producer
Canada
Javier Augusto Nunez
Canada/San Diego
Key Cast
Avaah Blackwell
Canada
Mobile Short Film Competition Winners
First Prize: Christopher Stollery | No Budget (iPhone 4S)
Second Prize: Aris Tyros | How I Became a Movie Theatre Murderer (iPhone 6S)
Third Prize: Adrian Jeffs | Good Day To Die (iPhone 6Plus)
Golden Award: Mickey Harrison | Dingleberry (iPhone 6S)
Honorary Youth Award: Miranda Mullings (11 years-old) | The Bullying Problem (iPhone 6)
Fifth Anniversary of the Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2016
Winners:
First Prize: Stepan Etrych | Bubbles Don’t Lie (iPhone 5)
Second Prize: Andrew Robb | Tofu Man (Samsung Galaxy S2)
Third Prize: Sylvain Certain | Vicious Circle (iPhone 5C)
Fourth Runner Up: Alfonso Garcia Lopez | The Cloud (iPhones 4S & 6)
Fourth Annual International Mobile Film Festival San Diego, April 2015
Winners:
First Prize: Tristan Pope | Dancers of NYC (iPhone 6)
Second Prize: Alfonso Garcia Lopez | Sector Zero 4 (iPhone 4S)
Third Prize: Vasilis Billy Blioumis | Lost and Found in Dubai (Samsung Note 4)
Runner Up Prize: Adi Spektor | How to Rob a House (iPhone 5S)
Third Annual International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego, April 2014
Winners:
First Prize: David Muñoz | Captain Justice
Second Prize: Shiva Prasad | Himalayan Tsunami
Third Prize: Maxim Mussel | Lisbon Live
Second Annual International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego, April 2013
Winners:
First Prize: Timothée Corteggiani and Nathalie Giraud | The Girl with the Red Balloon
Second Prize: Gregory Armstrong and Alise Anderson | Trapped!
Third Prize: Bill Newsinger | Memory 22
Inaugural International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego, April 2012
Winners:
First Prize: Michael Koerbel | Apple Of My Eye
Second Prize: Conrad Mess | The Fixer
Third Prize: Julien Magnan | Fécamp, Normandie
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