14 Directors You Didn’t Know Shot on Mobile Phones (2025)

14 Directors You Didn’t Know Shot on Mobile Phones (2025)

Wondering which Hollywood legends have embraced iPhone filmmaking? From Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh to Zack Snyder and Park Chan-wook, some of the world’s top directors have proven that you don’t need big studio cameras to make cinematic magic. This list...
Top 10 Smartphone-Shot Films You Need to Know 2025

Top 10 Smartphone-Shot Films You Need to Know 2025

28 Years Later Key Gear: iPhone 15 Pro Max, Moondog Labs anamorphic rig, Filmic Pro (LogV2) Why it matters: Danny Boyle’s third chapter was shot May–July 2024 in Northumberland. Shooting in 2.76:1 Ultra-Panavision-inspired ratio, Boyle and Anthony Dod Mantle used...
28 Years Later: Its iPhones!!

28 Years Later: Its iPhones!!

This is the big one for us here at the festival. After a big box office opening weekend (75million) this might be the mobile phone movie that finally breaks through. The first blockbuster filmed on a mobile phone. 9 years ago, when we started the festival, if you said...
Apple goes F1

Apple goes F1

We are mad for mobile movies here at the Dublin Smartphone Film Festival. The more productions use them the more it proves our point about accessible filmmaking. Now with F1, Apple’s foray into cinema just hit the apex of innovation:  the tech giant didn’t merely...