Full-length, theater-aimed movie shot with Nokia N8
updated 06:15 pm EST, Wed November 30, 2011
Director hoping to bring movie to the big screen
Director Hooman Khalili has created a feature-length movie shot entirely using a Nokia N8 smartphone and a custom 35mm lens. Shooting for the movie, Olive, was funded by former Facebook CPO Chris Kelly. Production has now been completed, and Khalili is looking to raise funding for distribution.
The N8 was launched in April 2010. At the time, it was Nokia's flagship Symbian smartphone and touted as a competitor to the iPhone. It features a 12-megapixel camera as its strong point and is still considered one of the better-known camera phones. It's coupled with a 680MHz processor, but it can support Dolby Digital Plus audio and output video over HDMI to a TV.
The plot of Olive centers around a mysterious, silent little girl and three strangers whose lives she positively affects. It stars Gena Rowlands and Randi Zuckerberg, older sister of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Khalili hopes to raise $300,000 using the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. The director hopes to use the financing to place the movie on 2,000 screens across the US. The effort has just begun. To date, about $4,000 of the $300,000 has been raised by 67 backers. The fundraising effort will end on December 15. [via TechCrunch]
