I’ve been writing about this recently so this news was to be expected.

A Reuter story notes that South African director Aryan Kaganov used 8 cell phones, to create a feature film. It’s called SMS Sugar Man.

I checked iout the SMS Sugar Man web site and it’s easy to mistake it for a traditional movie web site. The typography etc has been made to look exactly like a film poster with clickable areas to get you into the backstory..

SMS Sugar Man seemingly is shot on Sony Ericsson phones (the site links to the Sony site.) The story line is about ‘a pimp with principles’ but it is a Christmas story with car chases!

It’s worth noting that while this is the first feature film shot on cell phones, Aryan Kaganov was also the first to shoot a feature film using Mini DV technology!