This was… MoMo 2019

I tend to think that the Christmas celebration (Yuletide, Holiday Season or whatever else you want to call it) is about looking back, while New Years is all about looking forward. That’s why Christmas/Winter Solstice has a retrospective feeling to it.

A Glühwein laced with a couple of measures of tradition. Santa dressed in his Coca Cola outfit sitting on an old fashioned sleigh, powered by reindeer (rather than Tesla motors), and the whole thing generally feels like it harks back to simpler times.

Meanwhile, we celebrate New Year by exploding things, trying to stay awake until midnight and kissing random strangers. But essentially we’re looking forward to what might be ahead of us.

Anyway, this gives us a chance to look back at MoMo last year and remember some special things that have happened to the festival.

News, Tips, Articles, FREE Films School, MoMo Academy

Over the year, we have published 320 articles about smartphone filmmaking and filmmaking in general. I also started the FREE Film School which aims guide aspiring filmmakers through the process of teaching yourself how to make films. We now have 28 lessons, with more to be added (about 1 per week).

January

New Partner: Moondog Labs

Makers of the best anamorphic lens for smartphones, Moondog Labs, became an official partner for the festival. All winners receive a voucher to spend in the Moondog Labs store.

Award trophies made from biodegradable renewable material

Rather than add more plastic to the world, we decide the award trophies for 2019 would be made of wood.

February

New Partner: Sennheiser

Makers of some of the best audio kit for filmmakers, Sennheiser partners with the festival, offering their new AMBEO smart headset to winners.

Rescued the cat

New MoMo team member, Micky the cat, escaped the gnashing and barking jaws of a dog, only to find himself trapped up a tree. But luckily 3 people and a ladder were available…

March

Silent Eye Episode 4: Museum of Me

Filming using a Samsung S9, we shot the next episode of Silent Eye in 3 days. David took the role of intimacy coordinator.

April

New MoMo Trailer

Andrea cut together an inspiring trailer from the brilliant films selected for MoMo 2019.

May

Another successful festival!

The festival this year was our favourite so far. And we made a few changes to the way we did things. As well as designing and printing a brochure, we screened the films in 4 themes.

Everything was sold out, including our smartphone filmmaker workshop.

June

In the Top 100… again!

On filmfreeway, MoMo is consistently ranked in the top 100 of all the festivals on the platform (out of 7000+ festivals).

July

Submissions for 2020 begin. More successful meetups in Zürich, Switzerland

With hardly time to catch our breath, submissions had already started for the 2020 festival. We also continued to hold our popular monthly filmmaker meetup in Zürich.

August

We’re now on Pinterest!

September

Added some podcasts

2019 Winner Saleh Kashefi came all the way from Iran to spend some time in Switzerland. We finally got to meet the talented young filmmaker in Zürich.

October

Silent Eye Episode 5: Sleephouse

Shot on Samsung S9 smartphone and using the Moondog Labs anamorphic, we shot Episode 5 of Silent Eye, this time in Switzerland.

Workshop at the Zuger Filmtage with Sandeep Abraham

November

MoMo now on IMDb!

As submissions for MoMo 2020 close, we have received 256 amazing films shot on smartphones. Quality and creativity improves once again. Some of these films are not just the best smartphone films we’ve seen, but the best films we’ve seen this year.

December

New T-Shirt designs

We launched our new Small Cameras Big Ideas t-shirts. All profits go towards helping us keep the festival running.

MoMo launches TV channel on Amazon Prime!

Happy Holidays!

That’s it from us for this year. Andrea and I wish you all a great holiday (if you’re having one) and all the best for 2020!

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