Films Shot on Camera Phones Get Showcase

By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer, Technology / Other

Masaki Fujihata, film professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and one of the judges at the Pocket Film Festival, browses at one of 48 movies, all shot on camera-equipped cell phones, on display as the Pocket Film Festival opens in Yokaohama, south of Tokyo, Friday, Dec. 7, 2007. "The cell phone is something you always carry around and so you can roll the camera on a whim," he said. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

(AP) -- Masked and demure, she speaks from the tiny screen of a cell phone like a thumb-size fairy forever trapped inside. "Welcome home," she says softly to the viewer. "Speak to me about anything."

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