Olive
Patrick Gilles & Hooman Khali, 2011
Olive is the very first full length feature film shot 100% on a cellphone. 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!
Olive follows the story of a little girl that transforms the lives of three people without speaking one word.
The film boasts the involvement of the two time Oscar Academy Award nominated 81 year old actress Gena Rowlands (The Notebook, A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria).
Olive
Patrick Gilles & Hooman Khalili, 2011
- Synopsis:
The film 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!
A mysterious child with magical powers and a great secret, invades the lives of three lonely people who learn to embrace life once again.
Olive is the first full-length feature film shot entirely on a cell phone, a Nokia N8 smartphone.
“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 understand everything she is trying to communicate,”
Education:
It's Christmas time! So many old people are alone on December and festive season.
Olive could be an interesting motivation to introduce the importance of values such as loneliness in old age, in school education. Here we can explore solidarity:
Values:
I do remember, two years ago, I proposed different activities. I included some subjects into school curriculum. My students chose the activity. There were two or three, but the students chose to write Christmas cards and send them by mail to three elderly homes.
- Sometimes, young people cross old people who have problems about loneliness. It's not so difficult to help old people with a word or a smile and give some 'sunshine' into their lives with a single gesture.
- Every Christmas season, when December begins, my students and I had activities of solidarity included and developed in Languages curriculum.
I do remember, two years ago, I proposed different activities. I included some subjects into school curriculum. My students chose the activity. There were two or three, but the students chose to write Christmas cards and send them by mail to three elderly homes.
The old people in those elderly homes (women and men) were so touched that some of them answered to my students telling how lonely they were feeling and the 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 old people ! They were so touched and it was a good experience to students. They felt very happy about their activity.
“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
updated 03.09,2022
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