Hey 👋 I'm Susy. I'm a Mobile Film Advocate & Podcaster. I founded the International Mobile Film Festival based in San Diego, California from a vision I had during the historic events of September 11, 2001. Listen to my story

It wasn't easy to promote and persist in my vision that making movies and videos with the camera on your phone would be possible and a real contender in the film and video production industry.

Back in 2009, the iPhone 4 did not even exist. I launched the International Mobile Film Festival in San Diego in the Spring of 2009 with my company, S. Botello Productions™. It was the first in-person live film festival in the world for only movies shot with mobile phones for the cinema. A pioneer.

On October 27th, 2017 I published the first "official" episode of the SBP Podcast Mobile Filmmaking. Free for guests and listeners. I spent almost a year wrecking my brain to host guests who made films with smartphones to give them a voice as part of a growing global community of mobile filmmakers.

I continue to organize the international film festival each year with the help of people who support my passion, and love being a part of it.

Devoting myself to giving these opportunities for you to participate in, the festival and the podcast, is not easy. If you benefit from either of them, or would like to support me seeing it through, please give back if you can.

Your support means the world to me. Thank you for "buying me a coffee."

If you've been a guest, are a subscribed listener of the podcast who also shares it to inspire others, if you've participated in our film festival; this is a way to say thank you so I can keep it going.

You'll see two options on this page: Membership and Support. Click on Support to support one time and click membership to support monthly which helps a lot more than you think, because having a little coffee I can count on every month is peace of mind, one less thing to stress about. Thank you.

Don't forget to listen to my audio story where I share the roots of my vision and how it transformed my journey into launching IMFF in 2009. It began on September 11, 2001.