As the Telluride Film Festival announces its screenings for the 2014 edition this Labor Day weekend, Fandor publishes this piece on its origins. This interview is excerpted from the chapter “Programming the Old and the New: Bill and Stella Pence on the Telluride Film Festival,” from Coming Soon to a Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals, ed. Jeffrey Ruoff, St Andrews: St Andrews Film Books, Scotland, 2012, pp. 135-154.>> - Jeffrey Ruoff...
- 8/28/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
As the Telluride Film Festival announces its screenings for the 2014 edition this Labor Day weekend, Fandor publishes this piece on its origins. This interview is excerpted from the chapter “Programming the Old and the New: Bill and Stella Pence on the Telluride Film Festival,” from Coming Soon to a Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals, ed. Jeffrey Ruoff, St Andrews: St Andrews Film Books, Scotland, 2012, pp. 135-154.>> - Jeffrey Ruoff...
- 8/28/2014
- Keyframe
Below is the Dance Camera West Film Festival schedule which starts today at the Music Center! It's funny, sexy, and endlessly resourceful. Presenting sponsors Music Center, Lacma, The Getty Museum and Annenberg Beach House.
"No venue or series offers a more exciting array of major international choreographers… Stunning in its variety… Powerful performances…Consistently surprising… Funny, sexy and endlessly resourceful…"
- Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times
"Dance Camera West seems to me to be the best festival anywhere in the world."
– Bob Lockyer, Executive Producer, BBC
Dcw 2013 Festival Schedule
Thursday May 2nd Opening Night Shorts Program at Music Center Rigler “Peace on Earth” Fountain 7:00-7:15pm Get Wet Dance Series – Choreographed by Sarah Elgart 8:00pm Opening night shorts series in The Music Center’s Eva and Marc Stern Grand Hall 9:00pm Opening Night Party & Meet the Filmmakers in the Founders Room
Friday May 3rd Day Program at Lacma The "Wilshire Stairs" Fountain 3:00-3:15pm Get Wet Dance Series - Choreographed by Tony Testa 3:30pm Two Sink, Three Float Short film by Satya Roosens, Surface Tension Short film by Mark Teague and documentary Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty followed by Q&A with filmmaker Jeffrey Ruoff.
In the 1970s, at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA, four male athletes joined a dance class. Their collaborative work led to the creation of Pilobolus and the transformation of modern dance.
5:00pm ProMotion Youth Competition Award Featuring winner of Dcw Pro Motion Youth 2013 & winners of Capturing Motion 2013 from Dfa in NYC 5:30pm Check Your Body At the Door filmmaker Sally Sommer, followed by a Q & A with associate producer Alessandra Larson and dancers, Brahms "Bravo" Lafortune and Conrad Rochester. Check Your Body at the Door is a documentary about remarkable underground House dancers in NYC. Filmed during the golden decade of the 1990s, it follows a core group of master free-stylists in to the clubs, at their jobs and in their everyday lives. Also filmed in the studio against a white background, in silhouette or in light pools, their virtuosic moves and choreography are striking.
Friday May 3Rd Evening Program at Lacma The "Wilshire Stairs" Fountain 6:45-7:00pm Get Wet Series - Choreographed by Tony Testa 7:30 Wet Short film by Daniel Mollner 7:30pm The Man Behind the Throne filmmaker Kersti Grunditz, followed by a Q&A with Vincent Paterson.
Following the life and work of director/choreographer Vincent Paterson. Who has created for Michael Jackson, Madonna and Cirque De Soleil.
Saturday May 4th Early Evening Program at The Getty Museum 4:00pm-4:30pm Get Wet Series- Director/Choreographers Daniel Ezralow and Kitty McNamee 5:00-6:30pm Site and Architecture screenings (International short & long-short film selection) Followed by a Q & A with the filmmakers. 7:00pm-7:30pm Get Wet Series- Director/Choreographers Daniel Ezralow and Kitty McNamee
Sunday May 5th Evening Program at Annenberg Beach House 5-7pm Dance Confessional Booth Dance Confession Booth will be on site for audience members (before and after the screenings) to make their own impromtu dances and view on our website. All are welcome! 6:30-7:00pm: Panel Discussion "Choreography & Environment." Local choreographers, dance film directors, and environmental experts discuss art and resource conservation, and how the art of dance can bring about awareness of environmental issues. 7:30pm Trashdance filmmaker Andrew Garrison Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks and in the men and woman who pick up our trash. (2012 SXSW Special Jury Award)
More Information, Festival Tickets, And All-access Passes Can Be Purchased At www.dancecamerawest.org/tickets...
"No venue or series offers a more exciting array of major international choreographers… Stunning in its variety… Powerful performances…Consistently surprising… Funny, sexy and endlessly resourceful…"
- Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times
"Dance Camera West seems to me to be the best festival anywhere in the world."
– Bob Lockyer, Executive Producer, BBC
Dcw 2013 Festival Schedule
Thursday May 2nd Opening Night Shorts Program at Music Center Rigler “Peace on Earth” Fountain 7:00-7:15pm Get Wet Dance Series – Choreographed by Sarah Elgart 8:00pm Opening night shorts series in The Music Center’s Eva and Marc Stern Grand Hall 9:00pm Opening Night Party & Meet the Filmmakers in the Founders Room
Friday May 3rd Day Program at Lacma The "Wilshire Stairs" Fountain 3:00-3:15pm Get Wet Dance Series - Choreographed by Tony Testa 3:30pm Two Sink, Three Float Short film by Satya Roosens, Surface Tension Short film by Mark Teague and documentary Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty followed by Q&A with filmmaker Jeffrey Ruoff.
In the 1970s, at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA, four male athletes joined a dance class. Their collaborative work led to the creation of Pilobolus and the transformation of modern dance.
5:00pm ProMotion Youth Competition Award Featuring winner of Dcw Pro Motion Youth 2013 & winners of Capturing Motion 2013 from Dfa in NYC 5:30pm Check Your Body At the Door filmmaker Sally Sommer, followed by a Q & A with associate producer Alessandra Larson and dancers, Brahms "Bravo" Lafortune and Conrad Rochester. Check Your Body at the Door is a documentary about remarkable underground House dancers in NYC. Filmed during the golden decade of the 1990s, it follows a core group of master free-stylists in to the clubs, at their jobs and in their everyday lives. Also filmed in the studio against a white background, in silhouette or in light pools, their virtuosic moves and choreography are striking.
Friday May 3Rd Evening Program at Lacma The "Wilshire Stairs" Fountain 6:45-7:00pm Get Wet Series - Choreographed by Tony Testa 7:30 Wet Short film by Daniel Mollner 7:30pm The Man Behind the Throne filmmaker Kersti Grunditz, followed by a Q&A with Vincent Paterson.
Following the life and work of director/choreographer Vincent Paterson. Who has created for Michael Jackson, Madonna and Cirque De Soleil.
Saturday May 4th Early Evening Program at The Getty Museum 4:00pm-4:30pm Get Wet Series- Director/Choreographers Daniel Ezralow and Kitty McNamee 5:00-6:30pm Site and Architecture screenings (International short & long-short film selection) Followed by a Q & A with the filmmakers. 7:00pm-7:30pm Get Wet Series- Director/Choreographers Daniel Ezralow and Kitty McNamee
Sunday May 5th Evening Program at Annenberg Beach House 5-7pm Dance Confessional Booth Dance Confession Booth will be on site for audience members (before and after the screenings) to make their own impromtu dances and view on our website. All are welcome! 6:30-7:00pm: Panel Discussion "Choreography & Environment." Local choreographers, dance film directors, and environmental experts discuss art and resource conservation, and how the art of dance can bring about awareness of environmental issues. 7:30pm Trashdance filmmaker Andrew Garrison Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbage trucks and in the men and woman who pick up our trash. (2012 SXSW Special Jury Award)
More Information, Festival Tickets, And All-access Passes Can Be Purchased At www.dancecamerawest.org/tickets...
- 5/2/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Over the past 20 years or so, film festivals have beget more film festivals like rabbits on alkyl nitrates. Even the Sundance Kid, progenitor of the contemporary independent film festival, questioned, on the opening of his event's 35th edition in Park City, if there were too many of these cinema shindigs. "There's a festival in every neighborhood," he told the press. "I don't know about the overriding value except that we'll get the chance to see more films." "Film festivals are crucial exhibition circuits, because they nurture independent films, showcase national cinemas, and bring international films to ever-increasing audiences," rightly notes Jeffrey Ruoff in his introduction to the instructive study "Coming To A Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals." "In recent decades, as art cinemas have closed, and as cities have explored new ways to enhance tourism and culture exchange, more festivals have appeared...
- 2/6/2013
- by Sean Farnel
- Indiewire
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