Deadline, September 19, 2020 at 10:00 PM Central Time
• Maximum time for each submission is five minutes
• Only two submissions allowed per artist
• Date of completion of the submitted works, not older than 2018
• There are no limitations on submissions for films that have been presented at other festivals and/or online
• Films have to be connected with movement, choreography, dance or clear kinetic expression
• Symbolic entry fee $10.00
Selected films must provide the following;
• High resolution still images (jpg, 300dpi)
• Description of the film or artistic statement (no longer than 150 words)
• An exhibition file for your film. We prefer 1920x1080 AppleProRes or H264 files (.mov or .mp4)
Selection criteria is;
• Innovation
• Composition
• Editing
• Over all Message
• Dance/Movement concept and execution
Curatorial Team:
1. Nora Garda: University of Iowa, Pharmaceuticals Senior Chemist, InterDance & Iowa Dance Festival Director.
2. Michael Judge: University of Iowa, Adjunct Instructor, freelance journalist. His articles, essays, interviews and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, NPR, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Chicago Tribune, Politico and Smithsonian magazine, among other publications.
3. Tommy Haines : is an award winning documentary filmmaker based in Iowa City. Currently, he is touring with Northland’s latest feature documentary SAVING BRINTON which world premiered at AFI Docs, internationally premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and is lauded as A Cinephile’s Delight by The Hollywood Reporter.
4. Wendy Labinger is a 2016 PEN America Emerging Voices fellow. She received her master’s degree in deaf education from Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. She has taught English as a second language for 20 years. Wendy’s poems have been published in Sheila-Na-Gig, The Brillantina Project, and most recently in The Rattling Wall. She lives in Iowa City, IA and is working on her first collection of poems.
5. Eloy Barragán: University of Iowa Associate Professor of Dance, Choreographer, ScreenDance Filmmaker Director of the Iowa International ScreenDance Festival, co-director of the Iowa Dance Festival.
