Below is an ongoing list of up-coming dance film festival and funding submission deadlines. We have also added a new section featuring study programs in dance filmmaking. Please feel free to contact us if you have a call for opportunities to post.

— Movement Media

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

APRIL:

WORKSHOP in Italy

Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli announces a call for participation to “Choreographing with the lens” -a workshop of video-dance by Isabel Rocamora.

May 14^th-18^th 2012 – workshop dates

This workshop will take place at the PAN-Palazzo Roccella, Via Dei Mille 60, 80121, Naples.

All interested parties can send a brief bio and letter of motivation to the following addresses:info@napolidanza.com ; annalisa.piccirillo@libero.it

Deadline: April 22nd 2012

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Sans Souci Festival

The Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema invites filmmakers to submit film and video works that showcase:

1. The world of dance and cinematography
2. Mixed media works that include both live and cinema performances.

The 9th annual festival will take place in Boulder, Colorado on August 31st and September 1st 2012. All artists are encouraged to submit regardless of credentials and affiliations. When selecting works, The Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema consider thoughtful forms and themes, original approaches, and other curatorial criteria.

For further details please visit:
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema Guidelines

Deadlines for submission are April 27, 2012 and May 18, 2012. Entry fee required.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES

For the fifth time, JOINT ADVENTURES is inviting choreographers, dancers, film and (multi)media artists to develop new aesthetic approaches and visual languages for choreography and film in a 60-second ad format in the CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTUREScontext.

Choreographic Captures are 60-second (maximum) short films that use artistic means to reclaim the format of the advertising clip exploring the themes of choreography and movement in film.

Check out past Choreographic Captures in the competition film category.

All information required for participating in the competition is available at:www.choreooo.org.

DEADLINE: April 30th, 2012

MAY

INTERNATIONAL VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL OF CHILE OPEN CALL 2012

This year FIVC will be expanding to the a streets and other cultural spaces in the city of Santiago and seek works that interact with the audience and the general public in innovative ways.
FIVC 3.0 is open for works in three categories:
vd5 – (short works for public spaces)
vdfilms – (medium length dance for camera works for theatrical screenings)
files – (documentaries for theatrical screenings)

From these categories, it is intended to expand the interaction of video-dance, which inhabits a still indecipherable visual territory between body and camera.

For futher questions, please e-mail: festivalvdchile@gmail.com

FIVC
Festival Internacional de Videodanza de Chile
International Videodance Festival of Chile

Deadline MAY 15 th  2012

JUNE

SIDE-BY-SIDE.NET Online Dance Festival 2012 Call for Proposals

At the 8th international online-dancefestival SideBySide-net, talented dancers, choreographers and producers get the unique opportunity to present their work on an established dancevideo-platform and to a broad international audience for a longer period of time. In recent years, the festival’s website has been visited by over 100,000 people. The audience’s favourite artists will receive prizes of up to 3,000 Euro. Crucial criteria for nominations are the quality of dance, an individual style, and an innovative realisation of an interesting topic.

» Download application form here

Application deadline: June 1st 2012. The postmark’s date is relevant.

CALL FOR ENTRIES – InShadow Festival

The 4th edition of InShadow – International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies, opens its call for entries and accepts the following:

1. Video-dance, art video / selection to the Video-dance Competition, in which the videos run to 8 awards attributed by the Official Jury, School Jury, Vo’Arte Jury and public
2. Documentaries on artistic creative processes / selection to screen at the DocShadow Competition
3. Performance Solos / to present at the SoloShadow program
4. Installations / to present at alternative venues InShadow, the body imagined within the shadow

Submissions and Contacts

Regulations

Entry form video-dance and art video

Entry form performances & installations

VOARTE and InShadow Festival are also on Facebook

Submissons Until June 1st

AUGUST

CINEDANS ENTRY CALL

From March 1 till September 1 the Entry Call is open to submit your film for the 10th edition of Cinedans Dance on Screen.

Download: Terms&Conditions Entrycall 2012

Submit deadlines:
First deadline: 1 August
Second and last deadline: 1 September

Click on the link to submit your film: SUBMIT FILM

ONGOING SUBMISSIONS (No deadlines)

DANCE FILMS ASSOCIATION

The Dance Film Association (DFA) is inviting all members of DFA and Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) to submit films for their upcoming Dance Film Lab.* The next moderated screening is 7:30pm April 25, 2012 at Dance New Amsterdam Studio 5, 280 Broadway (entrance at 53 Chambers St.) New York, NY 10007 .

To submit:  Please e-mail brighid (at) dancefilms.org with DFL Screening in the subject line and include the following:

1) Artist(s) name
2) Contact E-mail
3) Title
4) Length
5) State of development (raw footage, rough-cut, final edits, etc.)
6) One sentence description

For futher questions please visit their website or call 212. 727. 0764

*Only DFA and DNA members may submit to screen their work. Screenings selected on a first come first served basis. Each Moderated Screening will include 4 works. All screeners must be on DVD and can not exceed 10 minutes.

ESSENTIAL DANCE FILM ON ITUNES/TENDU.TV

Marc Kirschner, General Manager of TenduTV is looking for submissions for the second edition of “Essential Dance Film”, a videodance series on iTunes (available in the US and Canada).

If you are interested in having one of your films included, please send the following information to mkirschner@tendu.tv:

Name of film:
Director:
Choreographer:
Format:
Master format available:
Length:
Screening history and awards:
Website:
Link to clip (if available):

Also, please confirm that you have all subsidiary rights (eg. music) or can obtain subsidiary rights to all of the elements included within the film.

F R A M E W O R K S

Dance film Series
at Dance New Amsterdam, NY
Rolling deadlines

Mission
Frameworks seeks to provide a vital, consistent and supportive stage for presenting new works of dance film from across the country. The films will be chosen for their creativity within the cinematic medium and excellence in choreography with a special focus on smaller budget films that do not otherwise have the opportunity to be seen or appreciated.

Eligibility
We are seeking original works of choreography for the camera, less than 20 minutes in length, and created in the last five years. We have adopted a loose definition of “dance film” that includes any work in which the movement is paramount, and created specifically for the camera. Documentaries will not be considered.

Although the first screening in summer 2008 will be restricted to New York based artists and companies, the subsequent screenings will showcase work from everywhere. So please, submit now and your film will be considered on a rolling basis.

For more information and to download application go to: http://www.frameworksdance.org/

FEAST

Welcome to our new initiative Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (FEAST), a multi-disciplinary, community-based artist grant. For info on proposals and volunteering, email feastinbklyn@gmail.com

It won’t be a FEAST without you. Can’t wait to break bread.

FEAST is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund new and emerging artmakers.

At each FEAST, participants will pay a sliding-scale entrance fee for which they will receive supper and a ballot. Diners will vote on a variety of proposed artist projects. At the end of dinner, the artist whose proposal receives the most votes will be awarded funds collected through the entrance fee to produce the project. The work will then be presented during the next FEAST.

For more info on the next feast go to: http://feastinbklyn.org/

MOVIEHOUSE

Moviehouse wants your high-quality short films, music videos, animation, and performance video art.

What types of movies are we looking for? In short, if its quality, we’ll screen it. We’re looking for work that pushes the boundaries of traditional filmmaking in new and readily accessible ways. A special emphasis is placed on work that includes performance and allows the audience to interact. Edgy experimental art pieces, original comedies, thoughtful dramas, and creative music videos are all welcome, 13 minutes of self-indulgence or three minutes of your cat sleeping are not. If you know it’s good and it has to get in front of an audience to be complete, please send it in.

For more information, visit http://www.brilliantp.com/moviehouse/submit/

Educational Opportunities

Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance Research Seminar Series

The Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance is offering a research seminar series at Brunel University in coproduction with danceTech TV. Faculty include Fiona Templeton, Johannes Birringer, Misha Myers, Mike Pearson, Guillerme Mendonça, and Rachel Fensham.

For more information please contact
Gretchen.schiller@brunel.ac.uk

One of the first schools to offer graduate education for dance filmmakers, University of Utah College of Fine Arts has created an interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate Program in Screendance.

“This program provides professional level production courses with state-of-the-art equipment, movement and theory classes and the option for Certification in Final Cut Pro. The Screendance Certificate requires a two-semester on-site commitment.”

For more information go tohttp://www.finearts.utah.edu/index.php/site/news/screendance_certificate/

Master of Fine Arts With an Emphasis on Screendance

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Art offers an interdisciplinary graduate degree in which the student may create a unique curriculum and program of study that supports their particular area of practice or research. To that end, in 2010, Professor Douglas Rosenberg will begin working with a limited number of graduate students in the area of Screendance. Students will have access to a diverse and accomplished faculty working across disciplines including performance, video, installation and digital media. Additionally, they will have access to the UW Madison Dance Department and it’s faculty including choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, theorist and historian Dr. Andrea Harris and others.

The practice of screendance will be situated within a larger context of the visual arts and will include theoretical components, historical analysis, critical writing, creative practice and studio based production in screen performance.

The UW Madison has held a number of significant conferences and symposia on screendance and will be the home of the forthcoming International Journal of Screendance.

Please contact Douglas Rosenberg at rosend@education.wisc.edu with questions and, for more information, see the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School web site at: http://www.grad.wisc.edu/

Also, the UW Madison Department of Art: http://art.wisc.edu/?folder=home and the Dance Program at: http://www.dance.wisc.edu/

AFTRS Graduate Certificate in Screen Culture

“Ideas are the most powerful force shaping our screen industry and culture. This unique AFTRS Graduate Certificate is all about ideas– where they have come from, how they have changed over time and their impact on the screen work we make and view. The course gives students the opportunity to discover and contribute to the ideas about stories, creativity, audiences and process that shape screen production. It develops students to function in a range of roles, including: critics, commentators, dramaturges, festival directors, teachers, administrators or project officers. It also strengthens and sharpens the creative and analytic skills of practitioners, particularly creative producers and directors, developing their understanding of the broader culture in which they work, and the forces acting upon them as they perform their roles. Through discussions, screenings, exercises, guest presentations and seminars, students encounter, debate and develop their own ideas about shaping our screen culture.” for more information, go to http://makeit.aftrs.edu.au/int-screenculture.html

Trinity Laban Graduate Program: MA in Creative Practice: Self-Selected Pathway

The Laban Center now offers a self-selected path to a Master’s in Creative Practice. Courses include Histories of the Body, Dance and Design, Performance Technologies, Dance and the Moving Image, and Writing the Body – all very useful to the study of screendance! Visit http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/programmes/graduate-dance-programmes.aspx for more information on how to apply.