Documentary Shorts

Description

Five documentary shorts in which people from around the world overcome obstacles, question social norms, and create new communities through dance.

Subjects include a new coalition of female poppers, Spanish women challenging traditions of “machismo” through flamenco, and the remarkable story of Pulga Muchachoma, a once impoverished minor league soccer player from Mozambique, who gives up everything to pursue a life of dance in Canada.

Saturday, October 21 | 3:30 pm

Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco
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San Francisco Dance Film Festival Films 2017, Moving Afrika, Valeria Lo Meo, Michele Manzini Moving Afrika

(South Africa, 2016) 5:02
Director: Valeria Lo Meo, Michele Manzini

Expressive documentary set in South African townships that seeks to answer the question “what is reality?”

San Francisco Dance Film Festival Films 2017, Dance for Life, Director: Ella Cooper, Choreographer: Pulga Muchochoma Dance for Life

(Canada, 2016) 4:00
Director: Ella Cooper

Short dance film meets documentary that features a once impoverished minor league soccer player from Mozambique, who gives up everything to pursue a life of dance in Canada.

San Francisco Dance Film Festival Films 2017, Girls and Boys, Tomasz Gubernat Girls and Boys

(United States, 2016) 13:25
Director: Tomasz Gubernat
Choreographer: Barbara Kulpa
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An intimate portrait of a dance instructor and her disinterested teenage students.

San Francisco Dance Film Festival Films 2017, María Manuela, Emma Lanier María Manuela

(United States, 2017) 27:19
Director: Emma Lanier
Choreographer: José Maldonado

A choreographer breaks flamenco’s gender norms to speak out against machismo, while a young filmmaker documents and reflects on intersecting questions of ownership, meaning, and resistance.

San Francisco Dance Film Festival Films 2017, Battle Grounds: The Hard Hits of Female Poppers, Director: Devon de Leña Battle Grounds: The Hard Hits of Female Poppers

(United States, 2016) 36:23
Director: Devon de Leña
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Facing both isolation and sexism within the street dancing community, Angel Alviar-Langley decides to organize the first international dance battle for female-identified poppers in Seattle.

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