2016 AWARD WINNERS
For the first time this year, SFDFF brought together a group of independent jury members to present awards at the beginning of the closing night local shorts program. Awards were given to the following films:
Best Documentary / Best Cinematography
Inheriting a Legacy (Herencia de un Pueblo)
(Peru, 2016) 12:02
Director: Carmen Roman
Choreographer: Carmen Roman
Set in the vibrant Peruvian town of El Carmen, this film highlights the people, town, and dance legacy of African descendants in Peru.
Best Director
Ravages
(Canada, 2015) 13:58
Director: Alan Lake
Choreographer: Alan Lake
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Ravages tells a kind of abstract tale, inviting the viewer to dive into the raw and fragile world of a symbolic epic where the human confronts what is perishable or unchangeable.
Best Visual Effects
Disco
(Germany, 2016) 2:09
Director: Boris Seewald
Choreographer: Simone Schmidt, Althea Corlett
A handmade dance video of 1,250 paintings on paper.
Best Screendance Short Over 10 Min
Shift
(USA, 2015) 11:00
Director: Rachael Lincoln and Amelia Rudolph
Choreographer: Amelia Rudolph
Bay Area vertical dance company BANDALOOP journeys across the Sierras using climbing technology to access back-country sites including a 2,900-foot dance wall. BANDALOOP challenges the boundaries of site-specific performance, re-imagining what dance can be and where it can take place.
Best Screendance Short Under 10 Min
Maze
(UK, 2016) 6:02
Director: Eve McConnachie
Choreographer: Sophie Laplane
Two young people discover each other as they explore a labyrinthine and derelict Glasgow swimming pool.
Best Screendance Short Under 5 Min
Rebellion & Johannesburg
(Germany, 2015) 4:47
Director: Leila El-Kayem
Choreographer: Jessica Nupen
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A provocative dance film, based on a production of the same name, telling a story of xenophobia, violence, and resilience against the backdrop of the 2012 Marikane mining massacre in Rustenburg, South Africa.
Best Student Film
Be Fabulous, First Stop: Sexitude
(USA, 2015) 5:09
Director: Meghan Ryan
Choreographer: D’Arcy Drollinger
Outfitted in neon spandex, fishnet stockings, and gold booty shorts, Sexitude dancers of all shapes, sizes, genders, sexual orientations, and fitness levels come to werk it.
2016 AUDIENCE FAVORITES
The following films were selected by audience survey as the individual screendance shorts program favorites:
Opening Night: International Shorts 1
Maze
(UK, 2016) 6:02
Director: Eve McConnachie
Choreographer: Sophie Laplane
Two young people discover each other as they explore a labyrinthine and derelict Glasgow swimming pool.
International Shorts 2
Being and Nothingness
(Canada, 2016) 8:29
Director: Alejandro Alvarez Cadilla
Choreographer: Guillaume Côté
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A reflection in dance of a key theme in Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential philosophy. Featuring National Ballet of Canada Prima Ballerina Greta Hodgkinson.
International Shorts 3
Personal Pronouns
(Slovakia, 2016) 15:27
Director: Andrea Sudorova
Choreographer: Jan Sevcik
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A cinematic poem about the many faces of love.
International Shorts 4
Separate Sentences
(USA, 2016) 15:00
Director: Austin Forbord, Amie Dowling
Choreographer: Amie Dowling, Natalie Greene
Dance/theater film that addresses the cycle of incarceration in families by drawing upon individual experiences and physical memories of a cast of formerly incarcerated men and their sons.
Co-Laboratory Films + Local Shorts
Fluidity
(USA, 2016) 3:34
Director: Syra McCarthy
Choreographer: Joseph Gapasin
Nothing is ever static.
