Hollywood making movies on Nokia N8

Olive, the first movie shot on a smart phone!

Apparently a full length movie, Olive, starring Gena Rowland with music by Ben Lear released in 2011 was made on the Nokia N8 smart phone. The $430,000 movie was made in just under six weeks, using a Nokia N8 smartphone affixed with a Carl Zeiss lens to enable depth of field. Interestingly, to counter some automatic features of the phone that were degrading the quality of the movie. The movie makers had to hire a cracker to disable auto-focus and auto-zoom, and had to color-correct the recording, post production.

Nokia N8 in Action! – Olive movie behind the scenes

Olive, a full-length movie, was shot by Patrick Gilles (pictured) and Hooman Khalili using a Nokia N8 smartphone fitted with Carl-Zeiss lens.

This is not all folks! There is also an iPhone Film Festival scheduled for October this year! Don’t forget to check it out!