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Spike Lee and Nokia raise the curtain on cellphone movies

Spike Lee is pairing with mobile device manufacturer Nokia on a project meant to get people making cellphone movies. Nokia phones are now good for shooting video, and Lee is asking for young people to submit entries for a movie in three acts. He'll select the best footage and edit himself into the next Spike Lee joint. More details at the NYT. The specs are pretty loose: The central theme of the film is humanity, and the motif of the first act is birth. Plenty of room for interpretation on both counts, and the instructions on the site offer little guidance: "How you define it is up to you." [Read]