Whether it was truth in advertising or the cheekiness of youth, the Disposable Film Festival scored points 10 years ago by choosing a name that popped the pretentiousness of modern technology.
/// KQED 03/27/17

When Carlton Evans co-founded the Disposable Film Festival in 2007, he wanted to accommodate a historic emerging shift in a century-old medium. For the first time, video cameras could realistically exist in every pocket.
/// San Francisco Chronicle 03/24/16

The eighth Disposable Film Festival, which debuts its main traveling program on Thursday, April 9, at the Castro Theatre, is no longer just a program of quirky shorts made by talented filmmakers.
/// San Francisco Chronicle 04/08/15

Featuring an emotive cast of 3-D printed “Grandpa” figurines voiced by voice mail audio, the four-minute short screens at San Francisco’s Disposable Film Festival. Running April 9 through 12, the festival celebrates movies made with non-professional gear and cheap technologies.
/// Fast Company 04/08/15

The Disposable Film Festival’s growth comes as the disposable film movement, so called because such films were initially shot on disposable gadgets like one-time-use video cameras, is catching on world-wide.
/// Wall Street Journal 03/08/12

As people see what others have done with ephemeral video, they build upon it… “When we finish the screening,” Mr. Evans said, “everyone feels empowered that they, too, can make a film.”
/// New York Times 11/04/08

What I like about the DFF is these guys were pioneering this kind of filmmaking way before the arrival of Apple’s iPhone, but are now reaping the benefits of the smartphone era.
/// Videomaker 02/24/2014

Returning to S.F. March 20-23, the seventh annual film festival shows just how far those tiny gadget cameras have come — gone are the days of pixelated videos, replaced by high-quality footage that no one would guess was shot with an iPhone — or those weird glasses.
/// SF Weekly 02/28/2014

The 7th annual Disposable Film Festival, a showcase of short films made with inexpensive video recording devices, takes place March 20 to 23 in San Francisco.
/// Laughing Squid 03/12/14

This year, a special partnership between The Disposable Film Festival and the Mobile Film Festival, a French festival based on the motto “1 Mobile, 1 Minute, 1 Film”, will be celebrated.
/// French Embassy in the United States

Evans notes that filmmaking has been repeatedly revolutionized by technology, whether Super8, video or today’s digital devices. “When we started the festival seven years ago,” he recalls, “we saw mobile video as an experimental platform not unlike the avant-garde of the ‘70s.”
/// Indiewire 12/6/2013

The festival is a showcase of short films made with inexpensive video capture devices like cell phones and webcams.
/// Laughing Squid 3/13/2013

The sixth annual event celebrating low-cost digital filmmaking technology opens with a competitive shorts program at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Castro Theatre, continues with a dinner and screening on food justice at 7 p.m. Friday at J. Rusten Studio.
/// SF Chronicle 3/20/2013

The Disposable Film Festival, which starts this evening, has staked its remarkably quick six-year success on an uncanny ability to pinpoint, predict, and prepare for the future of film.
/// 7×7 03/21/2013

Now in its sixth year, The DFF goes from strength to strength and has steadily built up a substantial audience (its premiere weekend at the Castro pulls in 4,000 alone), which has attracted sponsors such as Mozilla and Vimeo.
/// Smart Movie Making 2/8/2013

San Francisco has never been short on innovation, and the Disposable Film Festival — coming to the Castro Theatre this Thursday night — is no exception.
/// Huffington Post 03/21/2012

Disposable Film Festival 2012 attracts most creative entries yet
/// The Guardian UK 5/17/2012

The Disposable Film Festival is a true pioneer of mobile filmmaking
/// Smart Movie Making 5/8/2012

All the films in the Disposable Film Festival are great examples of how cinema is leaving Hollywood and coming to live in each of our hands.
/// Singularity Hub 03/23/2012

The Disposable Film Festival screens the year’s most rad and riveting (not to mention, resourceful!) short films shot on low budgets and non-pro filmmaking gear.
/// Refinery29 3/21/2012

What lessons can the industry learn from the disposable filmmaker?
/// Huffington Post 03/16/2012

All the films in the selection were hand-crafted gems made on a shoe-string budget. They represented the diversity and quality of individual artist today.
/// IndiWire 12/30/2011

The Disposable Film Festival and YouTube co-presented a special sneak preview screening of Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s LIFE IN A DAY
/// Twitch 8/4/2011

Michael Guillén interviews Disposable Film Festival co-founder Carlton Evans
/// The Evening Class 3/18/2011

[The Disposable Film Festival] not only harnesses and nurtures blossoming amateur talent, but also encourages exploration.
/// The Creator’s Project 03/24/2011

[The Disposable Film Festival] seeks the most creative and accomplished shorts produced with amateur image-capture devices.
/// SF Weekly 03/23/2011

It’s the drive-in movie that’s been disposed of, but it was the Disposable Film Festival which last year popularized (or perhaps debuted) the “bike-in movie,” the drive-in’s timely replacement in the peak oil-era. In fact, the idea is not a disposable one at all, but a repeatable experiment in audience agency and participation.
/// SF360 05/11/10

Devoted to the art of making movies without using movie cameras, the Disposable Film Festival found the perfect poster child in Memoirs of a Scanner….Carlton Evans explains the disposable DIY aesthetic: “If you have a strong concept, you can take whatever you have and make a film.”
/// Wired 03/03/10

Any schnook can shoot lo-res video with a cellphone or Webcam, as you once demonstrated to your (or your lover’s) satisfaction (or frustration). In the hands of artists or rabid experimentalists, though, these cheap tools produce some gritty, gripping stuff. The Disposable Film Festival showcases the best work made with nonpro gear.
/// SF Weekly 03/03/10

With the increasing accessibility of nonprofessional “video capturing devices,” as Slatkin calls them, the two believe a new moving image aesthetic has developed.
/// San Francisco Chronicle 08/09/08

Slatkin and Evans say, “there is creativity in these ephemeral, on-the-fly images of our accelerated times-and a new artistic medium for both filmmakers and social advocates…”
/// Cause Global 11/23/08

As people see what others have done with ephemeral video, they build upon it… “When we finish the screening,” Mr. Evans said, “everyone feels empowered that they, too, can make a film.”
/// New York Times 11/04/08