2024 at a glance

Honorary
Award 2023-2024
DOUGLAS ROSENBERG
Best International
Short Dance Film
To be announced
Audience
Award
To be announced
Portrait of a
Generation Award
MIGRANTS
Iran, 2022
Director: Masoud Ahmadi
Coreografía: Masoud Ahmadi
Outstanding Achievement
in Dance Film
Once Again (For the Very First Time)
EUA, 2023
Director: Boaz Yakin
Choreography: Rennie Harris
Best dance sequence in a Film or Series
Un amor
Spain, 2023
Director: Isabel Coixet
Choreography: Nekane García
INSTITUT DEL TEATRE
Official selection: Quantum Dance
October 18, 12am
CINEMA MALDÀ
Official selection: Chronicles of a resistance
October 18, 18.30h
CINEMA MALDÀ
Official selection: Light and darkness
October 18, 20.30h
CINEMA MALDÀ
2XXXPlicit
October 19, 20.30h
CINEMA MALDÀ
Xerinola
October 20, 5pm
CANDY DARLING
NOT a Bellydance Show
October 20, 8pm
Exclusive on Filmin
Series
JURY
Kati Kallio
Kati Kallio is an award winning dance filmmaker from Finland. Kallio lives in Helsinki and works internationally as an artist, curator and teaches dance film making. Her films have been screened internationally in film, dance and dance film festivals as well as broadcasted on television. She was the artistic director of Loikka Dance Film Festival (2015-2018). In 2024 she received a special ‘Tanssin maineteko’ award from the Circus and Dance Union in Finland for her works in the field of dance film.
Douglas Rosenberg
Douglas Rosenberg (MFA, San Francisco Art Institute) is the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an artist and a theorist working with performance, video, installation whose work has been exhibited internationally for over 30 years in museums, festivals, galleries and elsewhere.
He is the author of Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image, published by Oxford Press and The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, for which he was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research. He is a founding editor of The International Journal of Screendance. His work has been supported by numerous grants and awards including, the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Soros Foundation, the MAP Fund in New York and the James D. Phelan Art Award in Video. Recent exhibitions and screenings of his films include Limerick City Gallery of Art, Scotland Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria, and Lincoln Center, New York and at le Festival Ciné-Corps de Paris in 2018.
His commissioned public art project, Monumental Gestures was on view in Decatur, Georgia through 2022 and his most recent film, Song of Songs, is touring internationally and was recently screened at the Ingmar Bergman Center in Fårö, Sweden. He is the recipient of the Creative Arts Award, for a new film project to be shot on the Island of Gotland in Sweden called, The Sea. His most recent book (2024) is, Staring at the Sky, Essays on Art and Culture, published by Korpen Press.
Gitta Wigro
Gitta Wigro is a freelance dance film programmer based in London, UK.
She is a co-curator of Kinesthesia, and a programmer for the Screendance Competition at Leeds International Film Festival. She has worked as guest programmer, speaker and jury member for, among others, American Dance Festival (USA), La Danza in 1 Minuto (Italy), BFI FLARE (UK), Big Dance Shorts (UK), and Light Moves (Ireland).
Currently, Gitta is the course leader for the on the Screendance MA at London Contemporary Dance School (maternity cover 2020-2021). Since the inception of the course, she has also led a module on presenting screen dance work and in that role facilitates the student-led dance film festival Frame Rush.
Her work in dance film started at The Place, where Gitta was part of Videoworks, The Place’s resource for dance filmmakers, from 2000 to 2007. Videoworks comprised a video library, production facilities and the annual Dance on Screen film festival, and Gitta took over its management in 2004.
She curated the annual Video Dance project for Anticorpi XL (Italy) from 2006-2014, and was co-curator of the 2010 edition of Moves International Festival of Movement on Screen (UK).
She worked for Arts Council England, the national funding body for the arts, as a relationship manager, managing project and organisational grants, with a remit for dance and digital media, from 2008-2012.
For eight years, Gitta was co-director of Independent Dance, an artist-led organisation providing a responsive, stimulating space for artists in their ongoing development as professionals.
Gitta is part of the team of volunteers maintaining the International Screendance Calendar, and maintains free online news feeds for dance filmmakers at Video Dance (Facebook) and @dance_film (Twitter).
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