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Excited to share a recent feature interview following my keynote at International Image Culture Week in Shenzhen 🇨🇳 in May. @SmallRigGlobal @smallrig_cinema mp.weixin.qq.com/s/bU47WVzf8BCg…

MINA#2026 📲 15th MINA Smartphone Film Festival & Mobile Studies Congress in 🇮🇳 - mailchi.mp/6d48c939c4ad/m…

Learning on the go, Study Tours 2025 - Max Schleser youtu.be/YPrcJYVFTcY?si… via @YouTube via @timkitchen at Adobe Educators Conference

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On the 27th, 28th and 29th of October MINA and SmallRig will present the Creative and Innovation Category, #EcosmartphoneFilms and New Voices at Fed TV in Federation Square. The 14th MINA Smartphone Film Festival is co-presented by SmallRig, a global leader in innovative imaging

MINA and SmallRig present the 14th International Mobile Innovation Screening, and a Q&A with smartphone filmmakers at ACMI on the 24th of October. The festival will also feature the SF3 Melbourne Screening. Tickets available here: events.humanitix.com/mina-sf3

All infos: daiff.com.au

DISRUPT AI Film Festival (DAIFF) on the 26th NOV at ACMI. This year's theme: “Humans and Their Tools”, the festival champions human-in-the-loop creativity — where technology becomes a co-creator, not a competitor. Submissions are open till 20th October 2025.

Looking forward to the Adobe Edu Conference All infos: adobe.ly/APAC-Edu-Confe… via @timkitchen Catch me in the session on "Learning on the go". I will share some insight on working with emerging filmmakers who produce award-winning documentaries in 🇧🇩 and 🇲🇾.

Creative Technology and Transformative Storytelling Symposium Presented by CTMT and VCD Submit your abstract by 1 September 2025 👉 lnkd.in/gGq_3RJc Highlights from the last Swinburne Documentary Research Group’s event in Sarawak, Malaysia youtu.be/JFNvE8r9SlE?si…

Meet Dr. Max Schleser #SmallRigAwards 🎥Assoc. Prof @Swinburne Uni|Adobe Creative Educator Innovator 🔥Founder @Innovati1Mobile (mina.pro)+ Int'l Mobile Innovation Festival Director Expertise: 📲Immersive Media 📲Cinematic VR 📲Interactive Film See it, Change it

Always nice to be featured in China 3/3 > 2025 SmallRig Global Imaging Scene Industry Forum: Decoding the future of imaging and building a new paradigm of scene ecological collaboration >> 163.com/dy/article/K0B…

Always nice to be featured in China 2/3 > Industry experts decode the future of imaging scenes! 2025 International Imaging Culture Week held in Shenzhen >> news.qq.com/rain/a/2025052…

Always nice to be featured in China 1/3 SmallRig Global Imaging Scene Industry Forum: Scenario-based driving of mobile imaging into the 2.0 era >> ithome.com/0/855/922.htm

Looking forward to DOCUMENTARY & NON-FICTION NEXUS new.express.adobe.com/webpage/9vpsXI… You can still RSVP: forms.office.com/pages/response…

Fantastic roundtable discussion on Imaging Scene Development & Smartphone Growth at @SmallRigGlobal @SmallRigCinema International Image Cultre Week in Shenzhen 🇨🇳 And yes some online live streaming interviews too.

We are 2 weeks away from early bird submission deadline for the 14th MINA Smartphone Film Festival Submission: filmfreeway.com/mina Submit by 31st May for MINA’s best rates Infos about categories mina.pro | #MINA2025 screening at ACMI, Melb, Aus 24-10-25

Great to work at Participatory Cultures Lab, McGill University, with Distinguished Professor Claudia Mitchell and her team on the TRANSFORM: Engaging with Young People for Social Change strategy. Tomorrow, presenting Artful Inquiry Research Group Symposium. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 📲 :-)

DOCUMENTARY & NON-FICTION NEXUS presented by Swinburne Non-Fiction & Documentary Research Group Tuesday 10th June - Paper Development Workshop Wednesday 11th June - Documentary & Non-Fiction Nexus Please RSVP by 9th May (link above :-)) new.express.adobe.com/webpage/9vpsXI… @augustussegar