With image capturing technology continuing to approve dramatically, with cameras reaching for higher and higher resolutions, while fitting in increasingly smaller and smaller packages, do you eventually see the distinction between 'cinematic' and 'uncinematic' equipment dissolving? What do you think the future of content creation will be when within the next 10 or 15 years, when filmmakers will be able to get HD pro-quality images from something like their new cellphone or a off the shelf "disposable" camera?

We're already starting to see HD creeping into digital point and shoot cameras, and we think it's closer to 5 years when most new devices will shoot in HD standard. But the devices that have been made in the past few years will hopefully attain a cult status (similar to Pixelvision) and people will seek them out to shoot on them specifically.  One misconception we feel is that if it's shot in HD it's inevitably better.  Sure, the colors can be brighter, the picture can be clearer, and if shot in 24p can 'replicate' more of a filmic look-but if someone doesn't have a good story to tell, isn't thinking about the framing and movement of their shots and their environment, HD isn't going to magically turn it into a good film.

What do you think filmmakers are going to have to do to get their content noticed, and really make their films stand out as "quality" in the world of the future, where less and less experienced people will be able to obtain such quality for their films with presumably less hard work? Have there been any films that really made you stand up and really re-examine them because you were just shocked that they were filmed on such "sub-standard" equipment, and was it because of how good they were able to make it LOOK, or how good they were able to make it period?

In terms of films that have shocked us, all the films in the Disposable Film Fest wow us.

In terms of the collaboration, as data speeds increase as well, people will be able to work on films and pass them on, like the audio project Telephono where people continually add onto a song and pass it on, people will pass on films and re-edit, re-mix, etc.  And there will also be better online video editors like the ones Adobe is coming out with and seen on Jumpcut (an online video editing system) that people can collaboratively create films that way.

There has always been nay-sayers with new technology, when filmmaking first developed, many people didn't see it as a real art form and were dismissive of it, years later when electronic image capturing became possible, by this time people had definitely come around and most thought filmmaking was a real art form but didn't think Video would ever compare. Now living in an age where we can have relatively 'low-budget' films shot totally on digital video like 28 Days Later and Cloverfield not only be  treated like a "real films" but win awards and be successful at the box office, what do you have to say about people dismissive of things simply because they are new? Currently living in an age where many many people are dismissive of free distributed content, and the lo-fi quality of many of the content on the internet, do you see see this festival and the people that share your particular mindsets and aesthetics as being the advance guard of an upcoming paradigm shift towards how much of this content is looked at and treated by mainstream audiences?

We feel the paradigm is already shifting-whether people are cognizant or not, technology is moving at such a rate, that people have to adapt whether they like it or not.

Taking that in consideration, do you think it's possible that within the next decade or so we could see a film created on an "uncinematic" device possibly winning awards or acclaim from the mainstream community? If not that early, in what kind of time frame do you see it occuring, if ever?