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THE FUTURE BEGINS TODAY, 5min., USA, Music Video Directed by Evan Williams The video explores the contradictions and complexities of humanity during late-stage capitalism, and our tenuous relationship with the natural world.

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today. Audience Award Winners:BEST FILM: CRYING ON THE ISLAND THEY OWNBEST DANCE FILM: EIGHTFOLDBEST EXPERIMENTAL DANCE: HOW WE LIVEBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: KNOT Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film: CRYING ON THE ISLAND THEY OWN, 9min., USA, DanceDirected by Joan Dwiartanto, Cyrie Topete Stuck in a bubble,… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: March 2022 DANCE Festival

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: This film is about looking into the deep part of the interpretation of traditional Queretaro´s dances, an invitation to an immersive experience of the ritual meaning, its relationship with the land and the cadence of life itself.Dances as old as our towns and cities, showed the fusion of religions, peoples… Continue reading Short Film: QUERETARO VIBRANT LAND, 41min., Mexico, Dance

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: We are dressed in fighting as a ninja. We don’t hide how strong we are. Living reality is not easy, but we take strength and courage with us. Project Links  Facebook  Instagram News & Reviews “Eliana Favarelli bailarina”Brazilian timeshttps://www.braziliantimes.com/comunidade-brasileira/2021/09/01/col Director Statement This vídeo was made in pandemic time. It shows… Continue reading Short Film: SAMURAI, 5min,. Brazil, Dance

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: After cataclysmic events decimate the human population, the survivors build new ways of living and remembering. Alone and adrift, a woman journeys to a memorial for those lost, and in doing so, finds what she needs most. Project Links  Website  Facebook  Instagram News & Reviews “Ink, newsprint depict media reach… Continue reading Short Film: HOW WE LIVE, 15min., USA, Dance

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: A film of a dance piece about addiction. Project Links  Website

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: In the wake of the most recent Black Lives Matter movement, I wondered how Ballet Black should react to the apparent shift in global thinking about race, inclusion and equity. My overriding feeling was one of exhaustion; micro aggressions, persecution, death – it seemed never ending. I wanted to see… Continue reading Short Film: EIGHTFOLD, 34min,. UK, Dance

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Stuck in a bubble, these wealthy patrons know nothing else but this tension. Director Biography – Joan Dwiartanto, Cyrie Topete Joan Dwiartanto is in her fourth and final year as a Dance major at The Juilliard School. She has taken a keen interest in Dance filmmaking and wishes to continue creating… Continue reading Short Film: CRYING ON THE ISLAND THEY OWN, 9min., USA, Dance

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Get away from the spirit, get attached to the material. Forget the simple things that connect us to the universe.Looking the other way, burying empathy, clinging to individualism and losing the essence to give up the throne to the artificial, to frivolity.Implicit decisions that, little by little and without noticing… Continue reading Short Film: KNOT, 9min., Mexico, Dance

Watch the Audience Feedback Video: Birdsong tells a tale through the lens of the artist whose voice is stifled in the everyday humdrum of survival. Learning to dream again often begins with the bold remembering of our creative birthright. In daring to sing aloud, we call onto others who are searching for a place to… Continue reading Short Film: BIRDSONG, 8min., Singapore, Dance