Susy Botello is a Mobile Film Advocate & Podcaster: Susy is passionate about storytelling and film. She's a pioneer, an avid speaker, and storyteller spreading the message of the mobile smartphone film community worldwide.
Susy has been passionately involved with the concept of making movies with smartphone cameras as a pioneer, persistently and energetically.
As a pioneer, her insights come from her experience and endless conversations with filmmakers and other pioneers since the Spring 2009. That’s before the iPhone 4 was released to the masses.
I created this publication at the request of several people whom I met over the years from our film festival, as founder and listeners and guests on my podcast. Their request was to share more of my personal stories.
I will share stories of interest to you as a smartphone filmmaking enthusiast, filmmaker, artist and/or storyteller. This is who I am, where I’ve been and beyond. Some of what I share is in direct relation to my work and mobile filmmaking, some is about my passion with storytelling and art. And some are my own stories and thoughts. Writing is an art and subjective.
"Lots of interesting people creating great films with a mobile device and Susy knows all of them." Ant Pruitt, about the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking.
Susy’s experience includes, publication editor and communications coordinator for a local organization. She also worked for a large organization as a graphics designer. Her experience includes event photography, video camera person aka videographer, video editor, media manager, working on short and feature films as script supervisor, director of photography and production coordinator.
She has an Associate’s in Science Degree in Media Communications (2003). She worked professionally in video production during her studies—a unique privilege to work in the industry that inspired her to change her major from paralegal to film and video.
In 2006, she founded S. Botello Productions™ based in San Diego, California.
In 2009, she launched an idea from a vision during the events of 9/11/2001 of a future where cellphones would grow to become movie-making mobile devices.
In order to realize the vision she challenged all humans of all ages and backgrounds around the world to make movies using their mobile phone cameras for the big screen, and compete in a live, in-person international film festival based in San Diego, California, she branded as International Mobil Film Festival™. The International Mobile Film Festival based in San Diego launched in the Spring 2009 under S. Botello Productions™.
Susy launched the Mobile Film School (non-accredited) in San Diego on September 4, 2012. She taught storytelling through filmmaking using mobile phones, presented lectures and workshops, and taught teens in high schools and middle schools, as well as adults from all industries to make films and produce videos using smartphone cameras.
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Susy hosts the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking, which currently has over 160 episodes dedicated to inspiring conversations with filmmakers, and industry experts. Discussions are uniquely focused on filmmaking using smartphone cameras, and the power of storytelling through film.
On June 5th, 2023, Susy began to gather five industry experts from the mobile and indie film community with an invitation to commit to an ongoing program on the SBP Podcast. The ongoing panel discusses topics of interest to both communities with a mission to bridge mobile and indie film and storytelling.
Fade In To Film is a biweekly discussion taking place on the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking. The first introductory episode took place July 18, with the first official episode on July 25, 2023.
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