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.

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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

JANUARY:

Dance Camera West is now accepting submissions for its festival to be held in Los Angeles at the end of June.  Entries must be on DVD. Festival screening formats will vary depending on venue and will be communicated via email upon acceptance to the festival.  To be considered for the festival, the following are required:

• DVD submissions and entry fees must be postmarked by January 30th, 2012.
• Entries must never have screened or broadcast in Los Angeles. University or showcase showings allowed; local cable broadcast allowed.
• Upon acceptance into the festival, your film cannot be withdrawn.

Entry Fee:
$50 fee; $40 Members before December 15, 2011
$60 fee; $50 Members after December 15, 2011
$25 fee, Students

Early Deadline: December 15, 2011
Final Deadline: January 31, 2012 (postmarked)

For more information,visit dancecamerawest.org
Contact festival@dancecamerawest.org with additional questions.

FRAMEWORKS accepts submissions of original works of choreography for the camera, less than 20 minutes in length and made within the last 7 years. Videos of staged work and documentary films are fabulous but won’t be reviewed in this series. On average, 30-75 films are submitted for each screening, and 4-7 are selected. Submission is and always will be free.

Deadline for the Winter 2012 Series is January 31st. Please note this is the received by deadline.

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

FEBRUARY:

ReelDance is currently inviting submissions of Australian and international screen dance work in the following categories*:

1. single channel (looped for installation)
2. multi-channel (looped for installation)
3. screen dance short – under 10mins (single screening)
4. mid-length screen dance – 10-60mins (single screening)
5. dance documentary (single screening)
6. online and/or mobile environments

*Entries must fall within the following definition: the work must contain within its main concerns dance and/or dynamic expressions of movement created specifically for the screen, be it human movement, the dance-like movement of inanimate objects, dance effects achieved through filming or post-production, or abstract motion studies. NOTE:Recordings of live dance performance will not be considered (unless as part of dance documentary).

*Only works created after 1 January 2010 will be considered.

Closing date for submissions: 29 February 2012, AEDT 17:00 hrs

For more information and to submit online application form go to: http://reeldance.org.au/reeldance-2012-submission-form

MARCH:

17th Annual International Screendance Festival

Call for Entries

ADF is pleased to announce our annual call for submissions for the 17th annual International Screendance Festival. Created as a platform to showcase recent developments in the field as well as historically relevant work, ADF’s International Screendance Festival, directed by dance filmmaker and curator, Douglas Rosenberg, has screened more than 320 dance films by filmmakers from over 20 countries, to audiences from all over the world.

Early Deadline: March 14, 2012 with $30 entry fee

Final Deadline: April 13, 2012 with $40 entry fee

Questions? adf@americandancefestival.org or 919.684.6402

ONGOING SUBMISSIONS (No deadlines)

DANCE FILMS ASSOCIATION

We have a new opportunity to show films in Dance New Amsterdam’s lobby. We started with a video loop created for the Gallery of the Walter Reade Theatre for Dance on Camera Festival. However, we are planning the coming months programming. Let us know if you would like to have your title included for this non-paying installation.
info@dancefilms.org
dancefilms.org
Contact info@dancehouse.org

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.