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24-543: General Cemetery is the first full-length horror film in Peru. The film includes extensive found footage scenes, a new film style in the country. Set in Iquitos , the story follows Andrea (Airam Galliani), a 15-year-old girl, who suffers after the death of her father. Her friends from school convince her to try and contact her father using a ouija board. However, this triggers a series of terrifying events. General Cemetery

48-739: Is a political thriller about the online recruitment of a British journalist by an Islamic terrorist. The film received the Audience Choice Award in the Panorama program of the Berlin Film Festival and the SXSW Festival in the United States. In 2019, the first TV series about the zombie apocalypse called Dead of Night in screenlife format was released. It was available to view on smartphones in

72-515: Is often claimed to be the first example of found footage. However, Shirley Clarke 's arthouse film The Connection (1961) and the Orson Welles directed The Other Side of the Wind , a found footage movie shot in the early 1970s but released in 2018, predate Cannibal Holocaust . America's Deadliest Home Video (1991), remains a potent use of the format as well as an unsung groundbreaker in

96-419: Is used in journalism and advertising as a visual source. Screenlife takes elements from the pseudo-documentary and found footage formats (eg. The Blair Witch Project , Paranormal Activity ). The name "screenlife" was coined by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov who has directed and produced several films under this genre. The earliest experimentations of a combination of a classic film format and

120-600: The Snapchat application. In 2020, the second season was released. In 2021, the screenlife film R#J premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. It was an experimental romantic drama that adapts the love story of Romeo and Juliet to the modern world. R#J was also presented at the SXSW Film Festival, where it won an Adobe Editing Award. In March 2021, Timur Bekmambetov's Bazelevs studio

144-490: The Sundance Film Festival and collected in world box office over $ 75 million with a budget of about $ 700,000 and received a sequel, Missing , in 2023. Also in 2018, another screenlife film Open Windows by Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo was released. In 2018, Bekmambetov first was the director of the screenlife film Profile (in all previous projects, he performed as a producer). Profile

168-425: The epistolary novel , which typically consists of either correspondence or diary entries, purportedly written by a character central to the events. Like found footage, the epistolary technique has often been employed in horror fiction : both Dracula and Frankenstein are epistolary novels, as is The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft . In filmmaking , the 1980 cult horror feature Cannibal Holocaust

192-457: The Internet, Zoom or Skype calls, texting in messengers. Screenlife movies are most often made using screen recording software and simulate footage taken from real life. Screenlife is not a genre of film, because screenlife movies can be made in different genres: horror , thriller , comedy , etc. It is mostly regarded as a new storytelling format because the computer or smartphone screen

216-451: The camera of one or more of the characters involved, often accompanied by their real-time , off-camera commentary . For added realism , the cinematography may be done by the actors themselves as they perform, and shaky camera work and naturalistic acting are routinely employed. The footage may be presented as if it were " raw " and complete or as if it had been edited into a narrative by those who "found" it. The most common use of

240-443: The computer. There have, however, also been movies that switch between screens and are still categorized as screenlife. After producing one of the first mainstream feature-length computer screen films, Unfriended , in 2014, Bekmambetov popularized screenlife as a narrative device in film. Screenlife video displays only a desktop of a computer or smartphone and actions of the main character on this device: viewing files, surfing

264-424: The decorations. The movement of the cursor is important because the viewer's attention is concentrated on it. The main difference between the post-production of traditional and screenlife films is the time required for editing. On average, editing screenlife movies takes 6–9 months. The post-production time is compensated for by a shorter production period compared to the traditional cinema (for example, Searching

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288-427: The found-footage field - an ahead-of-its-time application of the vérité-video form to the horror/crime genre. The device was popularised by The Blair Witch Project (1999). Found footage has since been used in other commercially successful films, including Paranormal Activity (2007), REC (2007), Cloverfield (2008) and Chronicle (2012). Reviewing V/H/S for The A.V. Club , Scott Tobias notes that

312-458: The full-length screenlife film Unfriended was released. It earned $ 64 million at the box office on a budget of $ 1 million, and spawned a sequel called Unfriended: Dark Web in 2018. The most successful screenlife movie is the 2018 thriller Searching , directed by Aneesh Chaganty . The main roles were played by John Cho and Debra Messing . The film received the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at

336-401: The genre "has since become to the '00s and '10s what slasher movies were to the '80s." The genre appeals to film producers because of its lower cost, as it is believed the illusion of amateur documentary style allows lower production values than would be accepted on a conventional film. Writer-director Christopher B. Landon , who has made several found footage horror films, posits that

360-417: The genre is likely to extend in the future outside horror. The following entries are notable films in the found footage genre, though some were only partially made in that style. Andolan Films Screenlife Screenlife or computer screen film is a form of visual storytelling in which events are shown entirely on a computer , tablet or smartphone screen. It became popular in the 2010s owing to

384-541: The growing impact of the Internet and mobile devices. According to Timur Bekmambetov , the Russian-Kazakh director and producer, a computer screen film should take place on one specific screen, never move outside of the screen, the camerawork should resemble the behavior of the device's camera, all the action should take place in real time, without any visible transitions and all the sounds should originate from

408-460: The media reported about the filming of the new Hollywood screenlife thriller Resurrected (directed by Egor Baranov ) with Dave Davis ( Dybbuk ) in the leading role. The action of the film will occur in the near future, in which the Vatican has learned to resurrect people. In the screenlife format, the film set is the desktop of the computer, and the files, folders and screen wallpapers are

432-835: The technique is in horror films , such as The Blair Witch Project , Cannibal Holocaust , Paranormal Activity , Diary of the Dead , Rec , Cloverfield , Trollhunter , V/H/S , and Incantation , in which the footage is purported to be the only surviving record of the events, with the participants now missing or dead. It has also been used in science fiction such as Chronicle , District 9 , Project Almanac , Europa Report , Gamer , drama such as Zero Day , Exhibit A , comedy such as Project X , mystery such as Searching , family such as Earth to Echo , experimental arthouse such as The Connection , The Outwaters , Masking Threshold , and war films such as 84C MoPic . Although found footage

456-442: The term "discovered footage" for the narrative gimmick . Found-footage films typically employ one or more of six cinematic techniques — first-person perspective , pseudo-documentary , mockumentary , news footage, surveillance footage , or screenlife —according to an analysis of 500 found-footage films conducted by Found Footage Critic. As a storytelling technique, found footage has precedents in literature, particularly in

480-403: The use of computer screens were made in the 2000s. For example, the horror movie The Collingswood Story shows everything through the web cameras of the main characters. Nonetheless, the 2013 horror film The Den by American director Zachary Donohue is considered to be the first modern feature-length film using computer screens as a medium to depict the events happening in the film. In 2014,

504-479: Was conceived in early 2011. The screenplay was co-written by Javier Velasquez and Dorian Fernández. The story is based in urban legends about the city's main cemetery, which were condensed in the script, and compacted to the investigation of facts. Airam Galliani was selected to her role, when Fernandez-Moris found her in the Ensamble acting workshop. Attempting to follow the found footage style, Fernández-Moris

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528-507: Was included in the list of the most innovative companies in the world according to the American edition of Fast Company for the use of shooting technologies in the screenlife format. In 2021, SXSW also presented a vertical miniseries iBible: Swipe Righteous as a modern retelling of Bible stories on a smartphone screen. In March 2021, the media reported on the filming of the screenlife comedy #fbf with Ashley Judd . In June 2021,

552-427: Was influenced by Paranormal Activity , Cloverfield , REC and The Blair Witch Project . Found footage (pseudo-documentary) Found footage is a cinematic technique in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were film or video recordings recorded by characters in the story, and later "found" and presented to the audience. The events on screen are typically seen through

576-488: Was originally the name of an entirely different genre, it is now frequently used to describe pseudo-documentaries crafted with this narrative technique such as Lake Mungo , Noroi: The Curse and screenlife films such as Unfriended , Searching . The film magazine Variety has, for example, used the term "faux found-footage film" to describe some titles. Film scholar David Bordwell criticizes this recent usage, arguing that it sows confusion, and instead prefers

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