Filmmakers call for hot submissions to chick flick

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But whichever way it goes, producers of an all-women directed interactive mobile phone film say it will be a "cinematic symphony of women's voices from around the world".

The project - entitled "Overheated Symphony - is part of the Birds Eye View film festival taking place in London next month which showcases the work of female film-makers.

Women across the world are being asked to make a short film - a "quick flick" - between 40 seconds and four minutes long on a mobile phone and then send it via the internet to a London-based film director who will pull them all together.

Apart from the overall theme "Overheated", there is no restriction on content or subject matter.

"If it's hot, we'd like to see it," the project's Web site declares: "Ladies, wherever you are, whoever you are, we want you to join in."

According to Sarah Turner, the film director whose task it will be to create a final edit from the mobile phone contributions, the inspiration for "Overheated Symphony" was the 1927 film by German filmmaker Walter Ruttmann called "Berlin - Symphony of a Great City", which used a montage of still pictures from many sources to document city life.

Like that work, Overheated Symphony will be "very abstract", says Turner. It will give those who contribute the chance to engage in a "dialogue of ideas" with women across the world.

"Because they are films made by women, women's themes and issues are bound to be an integral part of the finished piece," she told Reuters.

"I expect some of them to be quite intense, because this is quite an intense thing to respond to. We all have overheated moments, when we are angry about something, or upset, or when we are sexually hot. We might even end up having some menopause films, you never know."

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