Made for mobile: the World's Smallest Film Festival merges state-of-the-art technology, creative video and animation, and the mobile medium.

Mobile technology is advancing at a rapid rate, and computer graphics professionals are taking full advantage of it and the audience it provides. "The market is huge, with a current market potential of a billion handset risers," insists Beau Buck. CEO and founder of BigDigit Inc., a leader in the aggregation and distribution of independent mobile video and mobile animation content. In some markets, such as Mexico and Japan, more people own mobile phones than land lines, he explains.

The rapid increase in mobile phone adoption is perhaps influenced by recent advancements in phone technology. The Sony Ericsson P800, as an example, is equipped with 12MB of memory, ...