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All the films in the selection were hand-crafted gems made on a shoe-string budget. They represented the diversity and quality of individual artist today.

/// Hope For Film

The technological age has carved a portal for the inflow of creative ideas from zero budget artists who were previously left at the curb. The Disposable Film Festival has coined the phrase "democratization of film" to testify to this transition, but the Festival's cofounder Carlton Evans says putting the future of film into the hands of the masses is only the beginning.

/// HalogenTV

The Disposable Film Festival and YouTube co-presented a special sneak preview screening of Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald's LIFE IN A DAY

/// Twitch

Funny, touching, creative, personal, beautiful and most of all inspirational.

/// Photo Junkie

Interview with Disposable Film Festival associate director Katie Gillum

/// ABC-TV

Michael Guillén interviews Disposable Film Festival co-founder Carlton Evans

/// The Evening Class

[The Disposable Film Festival] seeks the most creative and accomplished shorts produced with amateur image-capture devices.

/// SF Weekly 03/23/11

[The Disposable Film Festival] not only harnesses and nurtures blossoming amateur talent, but also encourages exploration.

/// The Creator's Project 03/24/11

Says Carlton Evans, director of the Disposable Film Festival, "The films in this year's program are 25 quality films that might otherwise have never been screened in front of a live audience." In the words of Alex Kalman "it's still cinema we're talking about: you have to be damn good."

/// L'Uomo Vogue 09/01/10

Après les films à petit budget, voici les "films jetables", une tendance en cinéma qui fait des adeptes jusqu'à Montréal.

/// La Presse 09/30/10

It's the drive-in movie that's been disposed of, but it was the Disposable Film Festival which last year popularized (or perhaps debuted) the "bike-in movie," the drive-in's timely replacement in the peak oil-era. In fact, the idea is not a disposable one at all, but a repeatable experiment in audience agency and participation.

/// SF360 05/11/10

Devoted to the art of making movies without using movie cameras, the Disposable Film Festival found the perfect poster child in Memoirs of a Scanner....Carlton Evans explains the disposable DIY aesthetic: "If you have a strong concept, you can take whatever you have and make a film."

/// Wired 03/03/10

Any schnook can shoot lo-res video with a cellphone or Webcam, as you once demonstrated to your (or your lover's) satisfaction (or frustration). In the hands of artists or rabid experimentalists, though, these cheap tools produce some gritty, gripping stuff. The Disposable Film Festival showcases the best work made with nonpro gear.

/// SF Weekly 03/03/10

Coolest Film Festivals: Created in 2007, The Disposable Film Festival offers a democratized space where the work of zero-budget filmmakers is celebrated and exhibited.

/// MovieMaker 07/31/09

As people see what others have done with ephemeral video, they build upon it... "When we finish the screening," Mr. Evans said, "everyone feels empowered that they, too, can make a film."

/// New York Times 11/04/08

With the increasing accessibility of nonprofessional "video capturing devices," as Slatkin calls them, the two believe a new moving image aesthetic has developed.

/// San Francisco Chronicle 08/09/08

Slatkin and Evans say, "there is creativity in these ephemeral, on-the-fly images of our accelerated times-and a new artistic medium for both filmmakers and social advocates..."

/// Cause Global 11/23/08

The Disposable Film Festival responds to the fast and easy media that dominate our social lives; camera-phone party snaps clog Facebook profiles and viral videos burn out on YouTube before they fully flare up. If Marshall McCluhan's famous maxim "the medium is the message" still holds, then this media landscape must hold a pixelated mirror to a vapid, impatient culture...The resulting work offers commentary that's anything but superficial on the ephemeral nature of art in the age of YouTube.

/// Flavorpill 01/17/08

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