Dance Film Sf Inc

Programs: Sfdff was established in 2010 by dancer/filmmaker greta schoenberg. Beginning with a handful of dance films presented in a small gallery, this annual festival soon expanded to the 75-seat 9th street independent film center showing two nights of films. In 2013, schoenberg joined forces with executive director judy flannery who invited the european dancescreen to partner with sfdff for their first u. S. Dance film festival. The 2013 festival received over 300 dance film submissions and grew into a four-day festival with industry panels, workshops, and discussions. The 8th annual festival hosted over a week of events and screenings in multiple venues with main screenings at the 360-seat brava theater october 19- 22. Other venues also included the catharine clark gallery, the jcc sf, byers auditorium at the ucsf mission bay campus, the atrium theater, and the variety preview room. The festival program will feature over 100 film screenings, filmmaker forums, live performances, q&a sessions, and a closing night of bay area dance films and co-laboratory film premieres. This closing night has become a celebration of the local dance and film community and has sold-out for the past three years.

for the past 5 years,, our co-laboratory program has supported local choreographers and filmmakers in the creation of new dance films. Providing an opportunity for creative exchange, the program pairs professional choreographers and dancers with filmmakers to create screendance films - dance works choreographed for the camera - within one intensive week. Dfsf provides each artistic team with the space, time, and resources for creation, rehearsal, production, and post-production. The ensuing co-laboratory films premiere at the annual san francisco dance film festival (sfdff) and then screen at other festivals in the us and abroad, putting a spotlight on san francisco's dance and film communities. In 2017 two teams - filmmaker marta dymek paired with choreographer robert dekkers and rawdance founders wendy rein and ryan smith teamed up with filmmaker shelley lewis - created two co-lab films over an intense weekend at the sf armory which then premiered on the closing night of the festival.