Digital Video magazine — July 2015
‘Tangerine’: Shooting a Cinematic Feature Film with an iPhone

Indie filmmaker Sean Baker’s Tangerine made waves at this year’s Sundance Film Festival with a couple of big surprises. The film, shot entirely with the Apple iPhone 5S, stars two transgender women of color with no previous acting experience. A Christmas Eve “odyssey” through various Los Angeles subcultures with a decidedly gritty look and feel, the micro-budget feature was made for less than half the cost of Baker’s previous film, the Independent Spirit Award-winning Starlet, produced in 2012 for a mere $250,000. Picked up for distribution by Magnolia Pictures, Tangerine is also the first film shot on a smartphone to secure a theatrical run.  (Read full story…)