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FREE HHH Event this Thursday at Moviola Digital in Hollywood!

Hand Held Hollywood is teaming up with Moviola Digital to bring you a night of iDevice goodness. We’ll be showing off some of the most powerful iPhone and iPad apps and accessories for mobile media making.

The night will include featured presentations from Cinemek (makers of Storyboard Composer), Chemical Wedding (makers of Toland, Helios, and Artemis Director’s Viewfinder), Teradek (makers of the CUBE), Gamma & Density (makers of Image Control for iPad), Arri, Moviola Studios, and Hand Held Hollywood. Two-hours of demos, conversations, and Q&A.

Best of all? It’s totally free! (Space is limited. R.S.V.P. link below)

Thursday, October 27th

6:30pm to 8:30pm

1135 North Mansfield

Hollywood, CA 90038

All you have to do is R.S.V.P. with the folks at Moviola!

If the R.S.V.P. link above doesn’t work for you, just send an email to [email protected] with ‘RSVP to HANDHELD HOLLYWOOD EVENT OCT 27‘ in the subject line.

See you there!

P.S. If you can’t make it to the HHH event on the 27th because you’re on the East Coast, make sure to check out the Boston SuperMeet!

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Dear iPhone fanatics and filmmaking friends, This will be the final post for Hand Held Hollywood. To loyal HHH readers, I’m sure this feels somewhat overdue. Probably because it is.

Shang-Chi Poster

Shang-Chi Director Directed From His iPhone

I enjoyed reading this brief ScreenRant story, so I thought I’d share it here. It describes how Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, was forced to direct an important scene via his iPhone while in the hospital for the birth of his child! Sadly, it doesn’t divulge the details of that unusual workflow, but it’s an excellent reminder that we’re all toting the world’s most versatile piece of filmmaking gear in our pockets and purses!