SFDFF On the Road
“SFDFF On The Road” is San Francisco Dance Film Festival’s Touring Program. As part of our ongoing outreach efforts to bring dance to a wider audience, DANCE FILM SF is offering the rental of one of our annual highlight reels of curated shorts from previous years’ festival programming. These rentals are available as streaming, limited-use content and are intended for educational use by libraries and nonprofit cultural institutions or for small or new film festivals (worldwide) that do not currently have the resources to curate their own programming. By special request, we may offer multiple viewings for approved educational institutions that will assign controlled viewings of a package as part of their syllabus coursework. These touring packages are NOT FOR COMMERCIAL SALE.
The rental package fee includes the permission to screen a highlight reel of choice, PLUS a print-ready PDF program for self-printing and distributing to your patrons. We’ll also include promotional film stills. CLICK HERE to request permission for the rental of one of our Touring Packages.
PROGRAM 1 : Audience Favorites | 2017
Audience Favorites (AF17)
A curated selection of popular screen dance shorts from our 2017 festival. This collection of international, imaginative, and sumptuous shorts, is perfect for a varied audience—from those new to dance to the sophisticated enthusiast. View program details.
PROGRAM 2 : SF Bay Area Shorts | 2017
Bay Area Shorts (BA17)
Selected from our 2017 Fall Festival, this collection of screen dance shorts was made by or features SF Bay Area artists, with an array of styles, perfect for any audience. View program details.
PROGRAM 3 : Audience Favorites | 2016
Audience Favorites (AF16)
A selection of our 2016 festival’s most popular screen dance shorts. This is a compilation of accessible, creatively-infused, and beauty-laden shorts, perfect for a diverse audience—from new dance discoverer, to sophisticated aficionado. View program details.
PROGRAM 4 : Breaking Boundaries | 2016
Breaking Boundaries (BB16)
A curation of innovative, experimental, and entirely new takes on the art of dance on film. Perfect for a cultured audience seeking ideas, dialogue-starters, inspiration, and unexpected approaches to the once familiar, with a dash of avant-garde. View program details.
PROGRAM 5 : SF Bay Area Shorts | 2016
Local Shorts (LS16)
Selected from our 2016 Fall Festival, this collection of screen dance shorts was made by or features SF Bay Area artists, and is accessible for any audience. View program details.
PROGRAM 6 : Audience Favorites | 2015
Audience Favorites (AF15)
A collection of audience favorites from our 2015 festival’s international screendance shorts and is perfect for most any audience. View program details.
PROGRAM 7 : Breaking Boundaries | 2016
Breaking Boundaries (BB15)
Selections from our 2015 festival features original, and entirely new takes on the art of dance on film. Perfect for a cultured audience seeking ideas, dialogue-starters, inspiration, and unexpected approaches to the once familiar, with a dash of avant-garde. View program details.
PROGRAM 8 : Globetrotting Favorites | 2014
Globetrotting Favorites (GF14)
International Shorts Highlights: Selected from our 2013 and 2014 Fall Festivals, this reel of international screendance shorts is sure to inspire and engage your audience as it did ours. This is compilation is accessible to a diverse audience — from those new to dance, to sophisticated aficionado. View program details.
Screendance Workshop
We also offer the option of adding a dynamic filmmaking workshop to your screening event led by filmmaker and SFDFF Technical Director, Ben Estabrook. The goal of this three or six-day workshop is to introduce students to filmmaking techniques that will help to bring out a kinesthetic vibrance in their dance films. This workshop will guide students, through a hands-on approach, to explore different methods of moving the camera in relation to the dance. Both traditional filmmaking practices as well as improvised approaches will be investigated. In addition to the practice of dance filmmaking, the workshop will also touch on the history and theory of screendance.
Click here to view workshop details.
Fees to include a workshop will be negotiated to include all transportation and accommodation for Mr. Estabrook as necessary. Please mention your interest in a workshop when completing the Request Form below.
Touring Package Request Form
To request permission for the rental of one of our Touring Packages, please CLICK HERE to complete our online permission form. Please note which package(s) you’re interested in, in the comments section of the Request Form. We will review your request and respond via email with further information.
Schedule
2019
• Louisville Children’s Film Festival, Louisville, KY (Feb, Mar) DFAA
• Bay Area National Dance Week, Dances for Camera 2019, SF Public Library, San Francisco, (May) AF18 + Co-Lab Retrospective
2018
• Bay Area National Dance Week, Dances for Camera 2018, SF Public Library, San Francisco, (May) BA17
• National Center for Choreography, University of Akron, Ohio (Jul) AF16
• Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema 2018 Film Crawl, San Francisco, (Sep) CoLab Films
• Young Artist Platform of Chinese Dancers Association, Beijing Normal University, China (Oct) AF17, BB16
• Seoul Dance Film Festival, South Korea (Oct) AF17, BA17
2017
• Purbeck Art Weeks Festival, Swanage, UK (May-Jun) AF15
• Bay Area National Dance Week, Dances for Camera 2017, SF Public Library, San Francisco, (Apr) LS16
• Dance on Film, Lafayette Library and Learning Center, CA (Jul) AF16
• Seoul Dance Film Festival, South Korea (Nov) AF16, BB16
2016
• American College Dance Assn, Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, Arizona (Mar) BB15
Bay Area National Dance Week, Dances for Camera 2016, SF Public Library, San Francisco, (Apr) AF15
• Steamboat Dance Theatre, Dance on Film Series, Steamboat Springs, Colorado (Jun) AF15
• Dance on Film, Lafayette Library and Learning Center, CA (Jul) AF15
2015
Bay Area National Dance Week, Dances for Camera 2017, SF Public Library, San Francisco, (Apr) GF14
• Steamboat Dance Theatre, Dance on Film Series, Steamboat Springs, Colorado (Sep) GT14