Dance Film Association is offering its members post-production funding.

Guidelines
1. Deadline: July 1st, 2012
2. Notification: August 1st, 2012
3. Funding Available: Up to $2,500

Requirements
1. Applicant must be a member of Dance Films Association.
2. Only films that have completed shooting and are in production will be considered.
3. You may not apply if you’ve received a Post-Production Grant previously.
4. Applicants will be required to submit a link to a cut of the proposed project that is five minutes or under in length that expresses the project’s intent, scope, and aesthetic to the best of your ability at this stage. This sample may not necessarily be the first five minutes of the film.

Application
Please contact Brighid Greene brighid@dancefilms.org for access to the application.

Funding Panel

Greg Vander Veer was a cameraman for the recent film Sally Gross: The Pleasure of Stillness, about the revolutionary dancer and choreographer. He was also a cameraman on the upcoming film Lucky Dog.   For the Broadway musical,The Color Purple, Greg filmed behind-the-scenes activities for the two-year duration of the show. He is also a video contributor and co-editor of IndexMagazine.com. Greg attended Hendrix College where he received a BA for Interdisciplinary Studies: Historical Film.  He also spent one year at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia where he studied Documentary Film Production. Greg currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.  Check out Greg’s newest project, Keep Dancing.

A filmmaker, choreographer, and performer, Gabri Christa brings her roots from Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean to her directing and film work. Now based in New York, (via Havana, Amsterdam and Puerto Rico) she has received many distinguished awards for her Choreographies and Short Films including a Guggenheim Fellowship for her choreography.  In 2008, Gabri Christa was invited to the Pangea Day Film Festival as “One of the World’s 100 most promising Filmmakers” and her film “High School” received an ABC TV award for Creative excellence. For more info on Gabri Christa click here.

Location: Z-Lab at UC Berkeley
2200 University Ave,Berkeley,CA 94720
Teacher: Ben Estabrook
Time: 10-4pm
Cost: $350
Student discounts available–see registration page for details.

An enlightening workshop that investigates the relationship between the camera and the dancer.  Participants will analyze film clips and partake in a series of hands-on exercises throughout the week.  Discussions on strategies such as how to achieve a cinematic look in films, the importance of sound design, adapting a stage work for the camera, and why some types of dance work better on camera than others will also take place.

Participants will have the opportunity to create a screendance study, but will need to provide your own camera (DSLRs are welcome), however a finished project is not expected. Participants are also encouraged to bring their own work if they would like feedback. The recommended reading for the workshop is Making Video Dance by Katrina McPherson (this is not required).

REGISTER NOW

From May 14^th-18^th 2012, Isabel Rocamora will host this workshop sponsored by the Napolidanza Association and II Coreografo Elettronico festival (art director Marilena Riccio), Rocamora will lead a research workshop on video-dance techniques. This hands-on workshop explores the stages of making a ‘dance for camera’ film, specifically considering the relationships between the language of video and the individual choreographic creativity of the participants. The focus will be on providing the practical tools for the development and completion of a choreographic film.

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

• Day 1: brief presentation on Isabel Rocamora’s work; what is a dance film/ the creative process; digital photography for movement (technical workshop, basic understanding of camera, light, location, space)/ collaboration methodologies
• Day 2: the body and the lens – choreographic exercises choreographing the body for the camera and the camera to the body; working with place – the moving body and site (the city, a park, a building)
• Day 3: creating material / storyboarding and shoot planning
• Day 4: shoot
• Day 5: reviewing material / basic editing (dependent on resources)/ presentation and distribution strategies

May 19^th 2012 will be devoted to the public screening of the movement-based short film produced during the workshop and a Forward Motion Screening presentation.

**The workshop is open to a maximum group of 15. It is designed for early professionals (in dance and film) and students of film, dance, physical theatre/performance who wish to develop their skills and understanding of these forms.  There is no age limit or condition in order to participate in the workshop. The attendance at the workshop and the participation at the Forward Motion screening is free.  Travel, accommodation, transport and per diem costs are charged to participants.

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

Info and Contacts:
Direction: Marilena Riccio – Associazione Napolidanza/art director Il Coreografo Elettronico
info@napolidanza.com

Curator: Annalisa Piccirillo – PhD, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
annalisa.piccirillo@libero.it

(c) Maarten van der Glas

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 CAPTURES context.

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

InShadow is promoted by Vo’Arte in co-production with São Luiz Teatro Municipal. The purpose of the Festival is to dig deeper into trans-disciplinary contemporary creation, presenting exclusive proposals of body representation on the screen and stage, highlighting the convergence between image and body, and artistic creation processes based on technology. InShadow uses a variety of all-inclusive programs including a Video-Dance Competition; Documentaries Competition-DocShadow; shows; and solo performaces. SoloShadow is aimed towards the younger generation and LittleShadow offers workshops and master classes for both general and specialized participants who are interested. 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

Submissons Until June 1st

Send dully filled entry form and other requested material (see point B. of regulations) to: voarte@voarte.com

Send DVD and other information to:Associação Vo’Arte | InShadow – International Festival of Video, Performance and TechnologiesRua de S. Domingos à Lapa, nº 8N 1200-835 Lisboa PORTUGAL

Submissions and Contacts

Regulations

Entry form video-dance and art video

Entry form performances & installations

VOARTE and InShadow Festival are also on Facebook

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.

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

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

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.

» Download application form here

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

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

ONLINE SCREENDANCE COMPETITION 2012

UPLOAD YOUR ENTRY BY 01 March

60secondsdance.dk online screendance competition is a co-production of Dansens Dag and Screen Moves, Copenhagen, Denmark. Hosted on http://www.60secondsdance.dk and funded by Dansens Dag and Nordea-fonden, it aims to give screendance makers the opportunity to produce, through their lens, a one-minute online screendance video.
The winner and runner up as well as the final top ten videos, will have their work screened at the prize-winning event at Cinemateque – Danish Film Institute and the DFI’s Asta Bar Wall Screen. The videos will also be online at: Dansens Dag website, 60secondsdance.dk YouTube Channel, ScreenMoves Facebook page and the ScreenMoves Installation site in the Dansehallerne Foyer. Jeannette Ginslov, associate producer of www.dance-tech.net will interview the winner and runner up via skype, for MoveStream, an online channel dedicated to screendance.

For 2012, the theme is based on the notion of “time” or “tid”. Screendance makers are invited to choreograph, shoot and edit what “time” or “tid” means to them, what pace, rhythm, timing is, whether it be found in movement, the emotional, the physical, the body…

Prizes
First Prize is €1500 and the runner up €500

NO ENTRY FEE!

Deadlines

Competition opens: 01 December 2011

Closing Date for uploading video and forms: 01 March 2012 midnight

Top 30 announced online: 15 March

Top 10 announced: 30 March

High quality videos sent in by: 15 April

Top 10 screened at Cinemateket, winner and runner up announced: 29 April
Upload your video to YouTube and apply online: http://www.60secondsdance.dk

Email Release Forms to: Co-ordinator Jeannette Ginslov info@60secondsdance.dk