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Olive is the very first full lenght feature film shot 100% on a cell phone. The crew shot the film with a smartphone mounted to a modified 35-mm lens, to achieve a shallow depth of field.
It’s crazy how far cellphone camera technology has advanced!
The film boasts the involvment of the two time Oscar Academy Award nominated 81 year old actress Gena Rowlands (the Notebook, A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria).
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The film simply put is about a little girl that goes into the lives of three people — an old lonely woman, a foreigner having a hard time acclimating in the United States,and an obese man — and transforms their lives without saying one word!
“Technology is moving so quickly and cellphones are really going to be the thing that does everything eventually,” director Hooman Khalili told AFP in an interview ahead of the US theater release of his movie on December 16, 2011.
Set for release in Los Angeles next week, the movie is eligible to be nominated for the Oscars in February.
“I thought, how great would it be to have a central character that doesn't speak but you understant everything she is trying to communicate,”
Hooman Khalili (director)
Education:
It's Christmas time! And a lot of people are alone in this season.
Olive could be a good motivation to introduce the importance of solidarity at school.
Sometimes, young people cross other people who have difficult problems with loneliness. It is not so difficult helping or introducing a bit of shine into their lives with a single gesture.
I do remember, two years ago, three of my students' classes choose for Christmas season to write Christmas cards and send them to three elderly homes.
Ladies and gentleman were so touched that some of them answered to the students telling how lonely they were and their joy of receiving a card from somebody for the first time in years.
So, after Christmas season, we decided to visit the elderly homes to meet those ladies and gentlemen.
It was a touching moment for students.
“Every single one of us at one time of our lives is down in a ditch… The way you get out of that ditch is by having someone reach you with their hand and pull you out,”
Hooman Khalili
G-Souto
16.12.2011
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