MIFF 2015: Tangerine is far from first feature film shot on a phone

By Tope Ogundare
Updated September 10 2015 - 11:08pm, first published September 4 2015 - 4:02pm
Phone-made: <i>Tangerine</i>.
Phone-made: <i>Tangerine</i>.
A frame from Cyrus Frisch's 2007 film <i>Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become this Bad in Afghanistan?</i>, the first movie shot on a mobile phone. Photo: supplied
A frame from Cyrus Frisch's 2007 film <i>Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become this Bad in Afghanistan?</i>, the first movie shot on a mobile phone. Photo: supplied

One of the hottest tickets on the film festival circuit this year (MIFF included), Tangerine was the talk of Park City, Utah, when it premiered at Sundance in January. This owed something to the film's subject matter, but it had a lot to do with the fact that writer-director Sean Baker had photographed it using only three 5s iPhones. People were allegedly heard to gasp on hearing this.

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