Dance Camera Istanbul 2023
4. Uluslararası Dans Filmleri Festivali

22 Eylül - 02 Ekim 2023

Dance Camera Istanbul Festival Director - Onur Topal-Sümer
Impro Dance Fest Director - Damla Durman
Impro Dance Fest Coordinator - Esma Akın
https://www.improvisationdancefestival.com
improdancefestival @ gmail.com











_ 1radix Iii / 00:04:58 / İtalya / Italy / 2022 / Cristiano Leone
_ 3 Windows, 1 Door / 00:06:46 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Marta Renzi
_ 5 Stages Of Drowning / Abd / 00:08:11 / 2021 / Ed Talavera, Konstantia Kontaxis, Dennis Scholl, Rosie Herrera
A Butterfly Knocking On The Window / 00:07:00 / İran / 2022 / Mohammad Hasani
A Conversation In Rhythm / 00:04:02 / Kanada / Canada / 2022 / Kevin Jin Kwan Kim
A Day:S Work / 00:07:55 / Abd / Usa / 2022 / Marta Renzi
A Quiet Con-Scully / 00:13:28 / Abd / Usa / 2022 / Jennifer Scully-Thurston
Act 1: Icu / Abd / Usa / 00:010:00 / 2022 / Hannah Straney
Asylum / 00:04:48 / Türkiye / 2023 / Deniz Atli, Umut Kambak
Awsat Almanya / 00:05:06 / 2022 / Eliane Eid
Back To Rio / 00:04:31 / Brezilya / Brasil / 2022 / Lucas Stuvok
Beast / 00:09:00 / Polonya / Poland / 2021 / Iwona Pasińska
Bind / 00:14:00 / Ireland / 2022 / Eileen Mcclory
Blue Burrow / 00:14:10 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Leah O'donnell
Childhood / Adulthood / 00:06:29 / Polonya / Poland / 2022 / Jagoda Turlik
City Of Dreams / 00:13:59 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Robin Daberath Cantrell
Cosmoception / 00:08:21 / Türkiye / 2021 / Asli Öztürk, Gizem Aksu, Melissa Ugolini
Creative Spark That Follows Saying I Don't Know / 00:08:15 / Hirvatistan / Crotia / 2022 / Glen Mackay
Dance Lime / 00:05:59 / Trinidad And Tobago / 2023 / Juliette Mccawley
Dis_Place İngiltere / 00:05:00 / 2021 / Kerryn Wise
Due North / 00:23:10 / Kanada / Canada / 2022 / Chantal Caron
Elemental / 00:04:53 / İngiltere / Uk / 2023 / Lewis Landini, Ross Hoey
Embracing Home / 00:07:31 / Abd / Usa / 2022 / Leah Okamoto Mann
Every Step Counts: Feng Jingyi / 00:03:15 / Hong Kong / 2022 / Andreas Guzman
Every Step Counts: Reina Sawai / 00:02:29 / Hong Kong / 2023 / Andreas Guzman
Every Step Counts; Takano Yonen / 00:03:31 / Hong Kong / 2022 / Andreas Guzman
Everyday Things / 00:05:00 / Bulgaristan / Bulgaria / 2021 / Andrea Dragov
Extremely In The Middle / 00:06:05 / Tayvan / Taiwan / 2022 / Yun He Lin
Gathering / 00:04:24 / Abd / Usa / 2021 / Alik Barsoumian
Ghostly Labor: A Dance Film / 00:13:11 / Abd / Usa / 2022 / John Jota Leaños, Vanessa Sanchez
Home Within / 00:02:32 / Taiwan / 2023 / Adrienn Izsépi
Hybris / 00:06:11 / Almanya / Germany / 2022 / Corentin Kopp, Aaron Arnoldt Alexander
I:M Not Ok / 00:12:10 / Abd / Usa / 2022 / Gabrielle Lansner
Impossible Image / 00:08:00 / Avustralya / Australia / 2023 / Karen Pearlman
Invisible But Persivable Yet Unspeakable / 00:06:32 / Türkiye / 2023 / Zeynep Demirhan, Can Durucan, Yiğit İlkkutlu, Şiva Canbazoğlu
Keşif / 00:07:10 / Türkiye / 2023 / Melis Aydin
L∞P: A Laundry Odyssey / 00:07:00 / Tayvan, Taiwan / 2023 / Liam Cheng
La Galerie / 00:11:19 / Kanada / Canada / 2021 / Claire Fletcher
Light Rising / 00:08:03 / Hollanda / Netherlands / 2023 / Andrea Hackl
Limit(Less) / 00:16:00 / Norveç / Norway / 2022 / Karolina Bieszczad-Stie
Look The Part / 00:06:30 / Avustralya / Australia / Claire Fletcher
Luvemba / 00:05:50 / Brasilya / Brasil / 2021 / Isa Machado
Man Made / 00:04:29 / Singapur / Singapore / 2022 / Jaron Boey, Ryan Foong
More Than Ballet / 00:35:37 / Macaristan / Hungary / 2021 / Richard M. Nagy
Morning / 00:05:25 / Abd / Usa / 2022 / Holly Wilder
Moth / 00:05:28 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Kate Weare, Jack Flame Sorokin
Nina / 00:08:02 / Abd / Usa / 2022 / Jenna Zavrel
Not From Here / 00:6:31 / Güney Afrika / South Africa / 2022 / Oscar Tony O'ryan, Louise Coetzer
Not Then, Not Yet (İn Situ) / 00:10:00 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Tiffany J Mills
Offering / 00:05:00 / Kanada / Canada / 2023 / Marlene Millar
Omen 27: Abd / Usa / 2021 / Harlan Taney, Justin Clifton, Blake Mccord
On Mending / 00:14:55 / İtalya / Italy / 2021 / Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, Emilie Louise Leriche
Otherside / 00:14:58 / Abd / Usa & Küba / Cuba / 2023 / Gabriela Cavanagh, Grace Mcnally
Paar Almanya / 00:08:19 / 2022 / Carly Lave
Pas De Trois / 00:07:08 / Fransa / France / 2022 / Guillaume Herment-Berrebi
Persian Swan / 00:07:52 / Abd / Usa 2023 / Tara Ghassemieh; Ad
Posidonies / 00:03:42 / Kibris / Cyrus / 2023 / Antis Lakovou, Evie Demetriou
Red / 00:03:26 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Liz Mulkey
Replica / 00:05:06 / Fransa / France / 2023 / Simonagun Aka, Nicolas Simon, Virna Hagen Auvergne
Salmon Dance / 00:10:25 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Sarah Campen
Scarcity & Abundance / 00:07:18 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Jonathan Potter
Sea Of Stars / 00:02:53 / Abd / Usa / 2022 / Robin L. Bisio
Shadowland Ii / 00:06:42 / Norveç / Norway / 2022 / Kari Hoaas, Alexander Kayiambakis
Shapes Of Aether / 00:06:38 / Austria / 2023 / Elias Benedikt Choi-Buttinger
She Dreamt Alone / 00:05:51 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Nina Mcneely
Show The Light / 00:04:00 / Türkiye / 2023 / Şükrü Özçevik
Submersion / 00:07:21 / Yunanistan / Greece / 2022 / Leonard Schulz
Şeyler / 00:07:11 / Türkiye / 2023 / Ada Özsar
The Body Of The War / 00:07:00 / İsveç / Sweden / 2023 / Viktoriia Khoroshylova
The Migrant Body / 00:12:00 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Paula Gil Higa, Cal Hopwood
The North Wind And The Sun / 00:04:56 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Anat Pollack
The River Within / 00:08:57 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Daphne Fernberger
Thick Skin / 00:0:31 / Kolombiya / Colombia / 2023 / Laura Steiner
Threshold Abd / 00:11:21 / 2021 / Malia Bruker
Together / 00:14:00 / Abd / Usa, 2020 / Sue Schroeder, Adam Larsen, Judd Greenstein
Touch / 00:09:21 / Kanada / Canada / 2022 / Brittney Canda
Uğultular / 00:04:28 / Türkiye / İlyas Hayta
Uncomfortable Tree / 00:06:05 / Türkiye / 2023 / Umut Kambak
Walls Come Down / 00:06:11 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Jake Kruty
Wave Rider / 00:24:41 / Kanada / Canada 2023 / Dustin Chok
Weight Of Sugar / 00:11:44 / Abd / Usa / 2021 / Jingqiu Guan
What's Bred In The Blood And Bone / 00:05:19 / Abd / Usa / 2023 / Robin M Gee








Dance Camera Istanbul is a unique screendance festival based in Istanbul, Turkey, that features choreography for the camera, experimental short-films that emphasize movement design, and dance documentaries. The festival has been partnering with so many leading screendance film festivals, cultural center and universities around the world to curate year around screenings. The Dance Camera Istanbul festival was on a "breathing" break and since 2021 coming back once again even stronger and more inspired than before.

This year Dance Camera Istanbul Festival is collaborating with Impro Dance Festival Istanbul. During this special edition there will be screening all around the city along with new sister events to follow both in Atlanta, GA or other upcoming (TBA) screenings in Enroute.

Since its establishment in 2007, Dance Camera Istanbul has screened a wide variety of (hundreds of) groundbreaking and acclaimed dance films by artists from around the world, organized and hosted many panels, workshops, produced works, and organized live international dance performances and dance photography exhibits at acclaimed arts venues around the beautiful city of Istanbul.

We have partnered with national and international universities, arts organizations, arts venues, international film festivals to expand our touring program, developing opportunities for artists and audience members to network, educate, inspire, and cultivate new audiences along with new opportunities.

This year's edition; we encourage the works from all topics, minority based social issues, embracing the nature, eco-art, bio-art and the more the merrier. Submission is open to all dance films.

The screening will be in person some in public spaces and some will be in acclaimed cultural centers/venues. All the updates and information details will be announced in a timely matter during early summer 2023.

Mission:

Dance Camera Istanbul is an international Dance Film & Dance Photography Festival while ”Seeing Dance Through the Lens” and founded by a group of independent artists and art explorers who are building a greater awareness of multicultural, interdisciplinary art forms in connection with the field of dance.

The “Dance Camera Istanbul” team aims to support, share, promote established artists’ works and encourage emerging artists who are focused on and interested in the artistic and experimental dimension of making dance for the camera. Our main goal is to support and provide collaboration opportunities between filmmakers, dancers, choreographers, photographers, musicians, and dance and digital technology explorers.

Our growing philosophy is to be an open platform, be a voice and create a free space without borders and an artistic environment for sharing, giving, receiving, experiencing, and creating through the different perspectives, backgrounds and focuses on making strong art. We are anticipating sharing the joy of these creations and presentations of this art form. With this motivation and enthusiasm, we seek to include new innovative forms to our festival as it constantly evolves to include new beginnings and adventures...

We celebrate and support diversity, all abilities, equality, unity, acceptance and we highly encourage films and filmmakers who share these values of inclusion. We encourage all human beings around the globe; people of color, LGBTQ, indigenous people, minorities, people with disabilities and all.

** DUE TO THE DEVASTATING MAJOR EARTHQUAKES TOOK PLACE BOTH IN TURKIYE & SYRIA THERE WILL BE SPECIAL DISCOUNT CODE FOR FILMMAKERS ATTENDING FROM THERE. IF YOU ARE A FILMMAKER FROM TURKIYE OR SYRIA PLEASE CONTACT US FOR THIS!

***Dance Camera Istanbul website is currently under update process.

Awards & Prizes
We curate 3 separate categories of films:

1) Short films (under 16 min.)

2)Feature Dance Films and Documentary Features that are research-based expose the process, history, and social impact of dance.

3) Dance and Technology: Interactive dance films, VR & AR & XR based dance films.

AWARDS:

* Best Short Dance Film
* Best Feature Dance Film
* Best Dance Documentary Film
* Best Dance & Technology Film Production

These awards will be selected by the judicators' highest scores and the audience choice.

Rules & Terms
Please read the entire agreement, rules, and terms and ensure that you have the full rights to submit the film.

-All submitting films have to be set with a downloadable option.
-You may submit any form of original dance films; short films, screendance, fiction, camera re-work, documentary, features, virtual reality dance production as well as any experimental film based on the relationship between body, sound, space, and movement as a medium for story-telling or visual spectacle that are produced within the last four years: 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

-Short films must be under 16 minutes and feature documentaries are welcome in all lengths. For the shorts, the shorter your film is, the easier it is to program. Please consider cutting your credits to be as short as possible. Credits count as part of the running in time.

-Dance documentary films must be research-based works and we do not screen performance documentations.

-Student applicants should apply with a .edu email address and email proof of current enrollment along with a valid student ID.

-Submission fee must be made at time of submission. Submission fees are non-refundable.

- Submission film format must be a high-quality .mov or mp4 file and DCP HD format may be requested separately.

-Applicants must have all rights and permissions to present the work and must be 18 years or older.

-Due to any potential upcoming quarantine at the time of the event, the final event date is subject to change. The festival is currently planned to be online or follow a live/online hybrid model depending on the pandemic developments.

-We support diversity and peace and we will not be able to provide any refund and will not be able to screen any films with violence or discriminatory themes.

-When submitting your film, please INCLUDE CREDITS AND A SHORT SYNOPSIS IN YOUR ENTRY (written out in FilmFreeway). We want to ensure proper credit and info is given to the artists involved in your project.

-Submitters authorize the organizers of the Dance Camera Istanbul Festival and its sister events to keep a copy of their film(s) in their archives, for festival and event screenings on educational, artistic and cultural exchange purposes and use photography/stills for promotional purposes. Dance Camera Istanbul and its sister events are given the right to use excerpts from my work in all promotional materials. The filmmakers will be notified and asked for permission in advance for any potential screenings other than this initial event emphasized as "sister events".

RELEASE & AGREEMENT

By agreeing to the Rules, Terms, And Conditions, located below the entity submitting the Film (hereafter called the “Filmmaker”) acknowledges that he, she, or they has obtained consent from any and all owners, choreographers, musicians, composers, creators, writers, producers and/or other authorized representatives of the Film (hereafter called the “Film’s Owners”) whose consent is required to submit the Film to the Dance Camera Istanbul and their sister events (which will be contacted and informed separately if needed) (hereafter called the “DCI & DCP” and “Festival”), and has read and accepts the submission terms and conditions below:

1. I represent and warrant to the DCI that: (a) I am duly authorized, on my own behalf and on behalf of all other persons or entities who have any ownership rights or interests (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights) in or relating to the Film, to exhibit this Film at the DCI , (b) exhibition of the Film at the DCI will not violate any law or any right or consent of any person or entity; and (c) the Film is not subject to any litigation, arbitration, or other adversarial claim or proceeding, nor is the Film the subject of any threat of litigation, arbitration, or other adverse claim or proceeding.

2. I further represent and warrant, on behalf of myself and the Film’s Owners, that the exhibition of the Film at the Festival will not violate or infringe any copyright, patent, privacy right, publicity right, trademark, service mark, or any other personal or property right of any person or entity, and that the Film does not constitute or include defamation of any person or entity. I have paid and will pay in full all license fees, clearance fees, and other obligations, of any kind, arising from or associated with the exhibition of the Film at or in connection with the DCI.

3. In the event that the Film is accepted by the DCI for inclusion in the Festival, I acknowledge, on behalf of myself and the Film’s Owners, that we understand that none of the Film’s Owners will receive any compensation for such exploitation, although some prizes at the DCI may include cash or other awards. I acknowledge that no obligation of any kind is assumed by, or may be implied against, the DCI in the event of, by virtue of, or as a result of the DCI's selection of the Film for the Festival.

4. I agree, on behalf of myself and each of the Film’s Owners, to indemnify and hold harmless the Festival, together with each of their parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, attorneys, creative advisors, agents, and representatives (collectively, “DCI Related Parties”), from and against any and all claims, losses, liabilities, damages, fees, and expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs) that may be asserted by any person or entity, or may be incurred by the DCI the Festival, or any DCI Related Parties, at any time in connection with the Film or the DCI’s use, handling or consideration thereof, and/or arising from any breach or alleged breach of any representation made by me to the DCI or any DCI Related Parties, including, without limitation, any express or implied representation in these Rules, Terms and Conditions.

5. In the event that the Film is accepted by DCI for inclusion in and exhibition at the Festival, I hereby grant, on behalf of myself and each of the Film’s Owners, each of the following rights to the Festival, and any DCI Related Parties without reservations, conditions or qualifications: (a) the right to use footage, stills and/or titles, and information from or relating to the Film for promotional purposes; and (b) the right to issue and authorize publicity concerning the filmmakers and the Film and to use all associated names, likenesses and biographical information. I also agree to provide up-to-date contact information pertaining to the director(s) and producer(s) of the Film, and to grant DCI, at their sole and absolute discretion, the right to provide this information to organizations that sponsor Festival events.