Nokia (News - Alert) today announced a new venture into multimedia film production with Academy Award nominated director, Spike Lee. The first social film by Nokia’s production house will entirely built by people by using their mobile devices. This way original content can be generated which will be combined into one artistic multimedia film by Spike Lee.

“The future of filmmaking is changing and mobile-generated art is fast becoming the next medium for film. In five years, I believe we will be watching films in movie theaters that have been shot on a mobile phone,” said Spike Lee, director for Nokia Productions. “Today, with state-of-the-art multimedia devices like what Nokia has to offer, you are seeing first hand the democratization of film. Aspiring filmmakers no longer have to go to film school to make great work. With a simple mobile phone, almost anyone can now become a filmmaker.”

The central theme of the film will evolve around a theme of humanity, similarly the way music tells the story of humanity. The film comprise of three acts each of which offers an assignment for participants. The assignments will be announced throughout the program by Lee. For participation in Nokia Prodcutions, participants can submit their original content consisting of any combination of text, music, video or images.

Each act of the production will last for four weeks. Lee will direct, guide as well as act as a critique the collaboration throughout the production digitally from the website. There will be online assistant directors who revise entries and then repost for consideration. After the end of each act Nokia will choose the "Top 25" submissions and after which visitors vote for their favorite submission to create “Top 10". From this Lee will then choose the winning submission from each act to be integrated into the final film. Five randomly selected contestants from each act will win a Nokia N95 and get the opportunity to travel to the film's premier in Los Angeles and meet director Spike Lee.

“Nokia is excited about connecting people through this first of its kind social experience,” said Craig Coffey, vice president of Marketing, Nokia North America. “With Nokia technology now enabling anyone to collaborate, share and explore in order to participate in something larger than themselves open up a world of possibilities. We encourage everyone to join with Nokia and Spike Lee to create the world's first social film production.”

The final collaborative film with contents of three winners submissions along with other contributed content will be premier at the soon to open Club Nokia in Los Angeles.

Aruna Satapathy is a contributing writer for TMCnet.

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