The
6th edition of St. Petersburg International Dance Film Festival
"KINODANCE"
will
take place in St. Petersburg
and Moscow between November 2008 and March 2009.
Please
visit our archive for the information
about the past editions of the festival.
Visit
our Russian dance
films selection to arrange screenings and exhibitions,
contact Alla Kovgan at akovgan@kinodance.com
If
you are from Eastern Europe or former Soviet Union or collaborating
with an artist from the mentioned regions, please download,
fill in the entry form below and mail it together with your
submission.
We
are hoping to put together programs of dance films from
Eastern Europe, to hold their screenings and offer them
to different venues around the world. Every festival edition,
we also hold European Dance Films Competition. The deadline
for submissions is on-going.
(Competition
info 
)
Please
inquire about general submissions by e-mailing Alla Kovgan
at akovgan@kinodance.com.
The
international part of the festival is curated and is non-competitive.
REGULATIONS
and ENTRY FORM:
WHAT:
For this
particular program we are looking for dance
films created as a result of an interaction between two
languages - one of film and one of dance that come together
to express a certain idea. In this case DANCE
includes any form of dance or performance that involves human
body in literal and abstract way - body lines, shapes, etc.
While FILM includes any kind of
media - celluloid film, video, computer graphics, animation,
etc.
Categories of dance film:
adaptation
- filmmaker and choreographer work together to adapt staged
choreography to the film/video medium to communicate ideas of
already staged choreographic creation (NOT
a documentation of a performance);
original
collaboration
- filmmaker and choreographer work together to create original
choreography and film script from scratch to express a certain
idea;
virtual
dance
- filmmaker and/or choreographer use language of film/video
medium and new technologies to create dances that can only exist
in the film space;
documentary
- films that reveal creative process of a dance company, choreographer,
dance filmmaker, etc. or tells a story about dance tradition,
etc. (NOT a documentation
of a performance)
COMPETITION and
FEES:
EASTERN EUROPEAN Program is curated and non-competative. Russian
Dance Films competition is held in conjunction with each edition
of the festival.
There is NO
Entry Fee.
All the return
shipping costs will be covered
by the Festival.
FORMATS
and DEADLINES:
All preview tapes should be on
VHS (PAL/NTSC) or miniDV (PAL/NTSC) or DVD (PAL/NTSC)
The deadline
for submissions is on-going.
The preview\
tapes with completed entry
form should be mailed to:
KINODANCE
Alla Kovgan, International Director
88 Winslow Ave., #2
Somerville MA 02144
USA
For more
information contact Alla Kovgan at akovgan@kinodance.com
(both in English and Russian)
As the programs
are curated, the filmmakers
will be notified about acceptance of their films. Upon notification,
the
press materials including film synopsis, biographies of filmmakers
/ choreographers, stills (in .jpg format) for the website (72dpi)
and print (300dpi) should be e-mailed to Alla Kovgan akovgan@kinodance.com
©
Kinodance–Russia, 2007
akovgan@kinodance.com
